For anyone who’s ever wondered what it would be like to see me live on CNN, this is your chance! Sorry that it isn’t my most telegenic moment. Still, it was a nice opportunity to share my perspective on the new FTC regulations facing bloggers.

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Just a reminder that I’m participating in an online panel today (at 1pm EST) to discuss the Ethics of Blogging. Maggie Fox, founder and CEO of Social Media Group, will moderate a panel composed of Augie Ray, who blogs at Experience: The Blog) and is Managing Director of Experiential Marketing at interactive and social media [...]

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Last month, Pete Bell and I presented a virtual seminar on faceted search for Jared Spool’s User Interface Engineering (UIE). Whether or not you attended the seminar, you can listen to a free podcast in which we answer some of the questions we didn’t get to during the seminar. If you still have an unanswered [...]

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A few people have commented that the events I advertise here tend to be expensive–or, worse, require a lot of work to get into! So I’m glad to announce a freebie that I hope will be as much fun for me as for attendees. I’ve been invited to participate in a webinar on the ethics [...]

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Pete Bell and I delivered the seminar today, and it was a blast! We had over 150 registered listeners–and I found out that at least one of those registrations corresponded to a roomful of 20 people at an online retailer that is a thought leader in web usability and design! Since we didn’t manage to [...]

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My colleague, Endeca co-founder Pete Bell, and I are giving a virtual seminar on faceted search for User Interface Engineering (UIE) this Thursday, August 20th at 1:30PM EST. We’ve heard that there are over a hundred sign-ups already–which may actually correspond to more people, since a sign-up may mean a group of people watching in [...]

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My colleague, Endeca co-founder Pete Bell, and I are giving a virtual seminar on faceted search next week for User Interface Engineering (UIE). It’s on Thursday, August 20th at 1:30PM EST. The regular price is $129, but Noisy Channel readers who are interested in attending can get a $30 discount by using TUNKELANG (yes, all [...]

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I don’t know if Google’s Vijay Gill reads this blog. But a post of his just caught my attention, and I feel I owe him an apology. A little over a month ago, I wrote a post entitled “Even Google Should Beware Of Hubris“. I stand by much of that post. But I specifically said: [...]

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Hope to see lots of you at SIGIR! Sounds like there are already great tutorials underway. I’ll get there tonight for the reception, where they will announce the triennial Gerard Salton Award winner (who will deliver tomorrow’s opening keynote). I’m looking forward to the paper, poster, and demo presentations, and of course to the Industry [...]

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Amazon and Barnes & Noble are both shipping the faceted search book, so hopefully all of our pre-orders are finally leaving the warehouses. My apologies for the delays, and my thanks to everyone who has been so patient. Apparently a few people had trouble using the publisher’s site; at this point I suggest using Amazon [...]

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