a jaundiced eye: archive

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dark fiber

HDWebTV
by Steven Champeon
published wednesday, march 5, 1997

With all the fuss surrounding WebTV, you might have forgotten one big reason why it is so ugly, boring, and perfect for television:

We never got HDTV.

The Lost Arts of Copyright and Attribution
by Steven Champeon
published wednesday, may 7, 1997

How copyright laws and traditional methods of attribution have gone by the wayside.
Remember Tiny Applications?
by Steven Champeon
published monday, august 18, 1997

Bloat, bloat, bloat.
The Sporting News
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
published tuesday, september 16, 1997

MS IE4 = idiot site-killer robot.

et

XML: SGMLers' Revenge
by Steven Champeon
published sunday, september 28, 1997

It's like a trip down memory lane...

intra dig

A Paradox at the Heart
by Steven Champeon
published friday, march 14, 1997

Information architecture and top-down design vs. the power of distributed desktop computing. Which will prevail?
Top Ten Reasons Why FrontPage is Evil
by Steven Champeon
published tuesday, april 1, 1997

Proving once again that marketing will prevail, Microsoft sows seeds of destruction.
FrontPage Considered Harmful
by Steven Champeon
published wednesday, july 30, 1997

Even Microsoft doesn't use it, so why should you?

saner heads

Why Push Will Need A Push.
by Steven Champeon
published thursday, march 13, 1997

Aside from email, there are few true "push" technologies. What we have here is filtered pull.
WWW != Gopher != FTP
by Steven Champeon
published saturday, march 15, 1997

Why do people insist on treating web servers like dumb file servers?
A Friend of Paradox and Conservatism
by Steven Champeon
published wednesday, april 2, 1997

Human Factors Engineers are notorious for standing in the way of progress.
Stackable Propeller Beanies
by Steven Champeon
published saturday, april 12, 1997

Web Services departments are a strange breed, requiring many complementary roles. Here's an overview.
Help Stamp Out Online Creativity
by Steven Champeon
published friday, may 16, 1997

Helping to turn a suspected conspiracy into an unstoppable movement.
Quackers - the Lost World Incident
by Steven Champeon
published friday, may 30, 1997

We were shocked to find that the Jaundiced Eye site was hacked today (to use the new sense of the term, made popular by Universal Studios...)
Bukowski, Patron Saint of the Web
by Steven Champeon
published thursday, june 12, 1997

Thomas Paine, nah. Ted Nelson? Nah.
Champeon's Law of Vowels
by Steven Champeon
published tuesday, july 22, 1997

The secret to Yahoo's success.
snake oil of I.T. cowards
by Steven Champeon
published friday, july 25, 1997

Lock em up, Lock em up, waaaay up! Back in the box you go.
Responsibility
by Steven Champeon
published monday, may 8, 2000

Don't break up Microsoft, that would be too easy, and doesn't demonstrably make up for the damage done to the consumer by their policies. Make them pay for their crimes instead.

stuck

http://www.redundant.com/redundant/
by Steven Champeon
published wednesday, march 5, 1997

Avoid redundancy when laying out your site design. A discussion of the convergence of traditional print marketing, user interface design, and information architecture.
Part two of Redundant, Part two.
by Steven Champeon
published thursday, march 13, 1997

It's always sad to see application developers miss. Here's an example.
Relatively Poor HTML
by Steven Champeon
published tuesday, april 1, 1997

Using the "../file.html" convention in your HTML code can hurt you.
A Piece on Web Design that Doesn't Mention David Siegel at all.
by Steven Champeon
published saturday, april 12, 1997

Age-old questions are raised beneath the surface of the recent debate on web design.
Hierarchy in Site Architecture
by Steven Champeon
published friday, april 25, 1997

The well-planned use of hierarchy in site architecture can save you time - and save your users trouble.
Lou Rosenfeld, Web Architect.
by Steven Champeon
published thursday, may 8, 1997

Lou Rosenfeld is famous the Web over for his Web Architect column in Web Review. We accosted him and forced him to answer some questions at gunpoint. Join us.
How to Kill Your Web Browser.
by Steven Champeon
published thursday, may 15, 1997

How a few missing "/" characters killed my browser.





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