In case you just can’t get enough of me on this blog, I’m pleased to announce the following:
Since all my other plans fell through, I decided to show up to the Twitter party (fashionably late, of course). You can get your Dubroy fix in bite-sized chunks at http://twitter.com/dubroy. Hope to see you there!
And from time to time, I bookmark things that strike my fancy at http://del.icio.us/pdubroy. Most of the links are relevant to this blog, so I try to post a link roundup here every now and then.
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In celebration of the one year anniversary of me offering my opinions up for public consumption, here are some of the more popular posts from this blog in the last year.
Some popular posts from the last couple months that many of you have probably already seen:
And some older posts which sparked some interesting discussions:
If you’re looking for some longer reading, check out the article I wrote for Boxes + Arrows earlier this year, called Doing Today’s Job with Yesterday’s Tools. Here’s the summary:
Where is the software that can help us cope with the massive amounts of information that we deal with on a daily basis?
Patrick Dubroy points out the usability problems with current personal information management techniques, and makes some
suggestions about how to improve the situation.
And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
I almost forgot, today is the one-year anniversary of this blog! A year ago today, I started the ball rolling with a post on the Cognitive Dimensions of Notations framework. Back then, I had just left my job, and was thinking about returning to the academic world to study human-computer interaction. And a year later, here I am — working on my master’s in the DGP lab at the University of Toronto.
I started this blog for a couple reasons: first, as a way to sort out some of my thoughts on the human side of software; but most importantly, to interact with other people who are interested in this stuff. So far I’ve gotten lots of feedback on my articles, but I usually seem to hear from the same five or ten people. According to Feedburner, there are almost 60 people who subscribe to my RSS feed, so I’d like to hear from some of my other readers! Leave me a comment and let me know a little bit about yourself. What do you do, what are you interested in, what’s your favourite beer? (Mine is St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout.)
In the next few weeks, I’ll be launching a new design for site. Before I do that, I’d like to hear your opinion on things. What do you like about the blog? What don’t you like? Would you like to see more or less of certain kinds of topics? Let me know! You can leave your comments here, or email them to me at pat@[this domain].
So, thanks everybody for a good year. For the newer readers, check back on Monday — I’ll be posting a retrospective of some of the most popular articles from the past year.
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