Breadcrumb Navigation Increasingly Useful

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for April 10 is now online at:
  > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/breadcrumbs.html
		
Summary:
Breadcrumbs use a single line of text to show a page's location in the
site hierarchy. While secondary, this navigation technique is increasingly
beneficial to users.
		
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Usability Week 2007 conference

  > Washington, DC, April 22-27
  > London, May 6-11
  > San Francisco, June 18-23

In-depth training:
  > 3-day Intensive Camp: Usability in Practice
  > 3-day Immersion: Tog on Interaction Design

10 specialized full-day tutorials:
  > Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability
  > Application Usability (2 days)
  > Intranet Usability (2 days)
  > B2B Sites
  > Websites That Sell
  > Presenting Company Information on Corporate Websites
  > E-Mail Newsletter Usability
  > Writing for the Web

  > http://www.nngroup.com/events

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INFORMATION FORAGING book published

Dr. Peter Pirolli from Xerox PARC is the guy who invented concepts like
"information scent" that explain why Web users behave the way they do.

Pete finally published his book which pulls together a decade's research
on information foraging: the theory on which Web usability is built.

Be warned: this is a scientific book and I can only recommend it to
readers with graduate degrees (or at a minimum, people who are good at
math and like several formulas per chapter).

My summary of the theory and its implications for Web design:
  > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030630.html
(the bottom of my article has links to Dr. Pirolli's book)