The Power of Defaults

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for September 26 is now online at:
  > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/defaults.html
	
Summary:
Search engine users click the results listings' top entry
much more often than can be explained by relevancy ratings.
Once again, people tend to stick to the defaults.

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User Experience 2005 conference

  > Boston, October 23-28
  > London, November 13-18

33 full-day tutorials over 6 days.
Come for as few or as many days as you like.

More info and full program:
  > http://www.nngroup.com/events

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Podcast interview:

  > http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail670.html

I am impressed with how they cleaned up the audio on this recording which
was made in a noisy hotel lobby. Of course, guidelines for Internet audio
include taping in a studio or other quiet environment, but busy schedules
don't always allow the same luxuries for a podcast as you would get for
the BBC.