Jay Small's blog

I have had enough of Weblog hype.

Maybe you wouldn't expect to read that here, in a venue that could at least loosely be described as a Weblog. But let's be clear: I do not pretend that this site is (a) an alternative form of grassroots journalism; (b) always up-to-the-minute; (c) a precise monitor of the pulse of news and information, Internet or otherwise; (d) particularly interesting to people outside my circle of family, friends and colleagues in the design professions; or (e) anything but an ego-fed, self-promotional brochure with occasional personal quips and rants such as this one.

Some "blog" authors, and at least as many journalism pundits who track Weblogs, pretend or at least hope that this craft of assembling Web links with commentaries and message boards is a news medium in and of itself.

Sorry, friends, but no.

ZDNet reports the latest Netscape and Mozilla version releases led to a slight uptick in share for non-Microsoft browsers.

Initial impressions from this Web designer: That's fine, as long as the new Netscape 7 and Mozilla 1 manage to finally squeeze out the awful, buggy, compatibility-choking Netscape 4.x and 6.x series! Soon, please!

Jakob Nielsen's latest Alertbox column reveals that adherence to his own e-commerce usability guidelines -- as measured by assessment of a sel

We were sad to hear of the sudden death of Greg Allan, one of the four founding