Comments on: Nielsen on Weblog Usability http://clioweb.org/2005/10/18/nielsen-on-weblog-usability/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:14:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeremy http://clioweb.org/2005/10/18/nielsen-on-weblog-usability/#comment-195 Jeremy Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:16:37 +0000 http://www.clioweb.org/archive/2005/10/18/nielsen-on-weblog-usability/#comment-195 I do see an emerging tension between specialization and generalization with web-based publishing, especially blogging. And this all has to do with the potentially limitless audience web content can have. There's a bigger post in that idea somewhere that I, or someone smarter, should write. I do see an emerging tension between specialization and generalization with web-based publishing, especially blogging. And this all has to do with the potentially limitless audience web content can have. There’s a bigger post in that idea somewhere that I, or someone smarter, should write.

]]> By: sharon http://clioweb.org/2005/10/18/nielsen-on-weblog-usability/#comment-194 sharon Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:00:54 +0000 http://www.clioweb.org/archive/2005/10/18/nielsen-on-weblog-usability/#comment-194 You know, I saw that one and thought: don't be ridiculous, but I skated over the actual wording of it. 'High-value' and 'low-value' users? Ugh. But this highlights one of the important ways that blogging differs from the 'traditional' web (if you can call something that's been around for less than 2 decades 'traditional'). There, he's right: specialised is good; and (conversely) the web has been a great thing for specialists in all sorts of fields. In contrast, although you can get quite specialised weblogs that are successful and readable (eg the CLEWS true crime blog - sorry I don't have a link right now), it's certainly not the only fruitful way to go about it, and it's probably the least common. You know, I saw that one and thought: don’t be ridiculous, but I skated over the actual wording of it. ‘High-value’ and ‘low-value’ users? Ugh.

But this highlights one of the important ways that blogging differs from the ‘traditional’ web (if you can call something that’s been around for less than 2 decades ‘traditional’). There, he’s right: specialised is good; and (conversely) the web has been a great thing for specialists in all sorts of fields. In contrast, although you can get quite specialised weblogs that are successful and readable (eg the CLEWS true crime blog – sorry I don’t have a link right now), it’s certainly not the only fruitful way to go about it, and it’s probably the least common.

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