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September 13, 2002
Be quick like bunny
William Hudson, of CHI-WEB fame, is expanding his empire. He's recently announced the creation of another list, UCD, which will also be moderated and will be concerned with "user-centred design, user interface design, web design, HCI and usability with no geographical or organizational boundaries." He advises that some high-profile CHI-WEBers (Don Norman, Jared Spool) have already joined, and that membership is limited to 500 members. So hurry if you want to get in. Because I can't get enough (and since I'm now back in the biz of looking for IDblog fodder), I've signed up. That said, it's a bit odd this limiting the membership business. It's great that it is a moderated list...keeps the noise to a minimum. But I think if you really wanted to keep the list small, advertising it in more public domain space (like the AIGA Experience Design list I saw it on) seems counter-productive. Contrast this tactic with the one of that other U-list which goes to some lengths to be invisible except by word-of-mouth. Or maybe the "limited to 500" is a PR ploy? As a CHI-WEB member, I get the sense that moderating a high-traffic (due to higher membership) list requires the involvement of multiple volunteers (or one really insane one with no life :). So perhaps this is a way of being able to keep this a labor of love and not have to decentralize. Well, we'll see. Certainly any items to the list of interest to IDblog fans will appear here, and perchance UCD will be archived on the web like the CHI-WEB archives are.
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I dunno, I suggested he post it on the aiga ed list...seemed to make sense to me. I saw it in other places that may have been less relevant. Don't know what his intentions are on the 500 subscriber limitation? Maybe it's a software limit. Certainly not small enough to call it an intimate group. He's been doing this stuff for a while. I'm assuming he knows what he's doing!? -- Posted by -challis on September 16, 2002 11:07 PMAh, it all becomes clear. William just sent an email to the subscribers noting we had hit our 500 limit which, as Challis surmised, was a software limit for the free version of the list program he's using. The cost to run the unlimited version was obscene. I'm going to email and see if he's interested in Mailman, an open-source program. -- Posted by Beth on September 26, 2002 06:45 PM
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