DYLAN TWENEY
Dylan Tweney

Dylan Tweney

2012 posts
Published Work

Personalization Without Popularity

Most of the words in the English language are greatly underutilized. Words like fracas and sanguine and superlative don’t pop up nearly as often as simpler words like book or car or the. This simple observation has a name: It’s called Zipf’s Law, named for an obscure linguistics professor, George Ki
Dylan Tweney 2 min read
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More Features for the InfoSelect Faithful

Info Select version 6 Bottom Line: Flexible, powerful information organizer with a quirky interface. Price: $149.95; $99.95 upgrade from earlier versions Micro Logic Corp. 201-342-6518 Micro Logic Corp.Info Select 6 PageWinList: PIM/Contact ManagerFebruary 28, 2001More Features for the Info Select F
Dylan Tweney 4 min read
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Caution: Broadband content

(Publish) — For Web designers, so-called “rich media” has long been an irresistible temptation. Plain text and HTML seems so bland to the black-clad art-school crowd-wouldn’t it be better to juice up the home page with a few animated GIF files and maybe an interactive game built in Macromedia Flash?
Dylan Tweney 3 min read
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Beware of content staff bloat

It’s been a tough year for many high-profile startups-but one with valuable lessons about how to produce and use online content. Among the recent spate of dotcom layoffs and company failures, big content-focused sites have taken some of the worst beatings. Webcaster Pseudo Networks shut down in Sept
Dylan Tweney 3 min read

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