I bought HCIBlog.com a week ago on a whim for $10 American ($9 Canadian). It’s turning out to be a bigger responsibility then I had thought. Anytime I tell someone someone in-the-know I bought the domain they explode with ideas on what to do with the site.
Not that this is a bad thing, it just puts me in a rather awkward position as now I have to do something with it. Originally I was going to make this my blog during Graduate school,but now I don’t know what to do with it long-term.
For the unintroduced, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is just that; the study and practice of humans and computer-based systems interacting. The promise of HCI is to reduce so called ‘cognitive friction’ or the complexity encountered when a human meets a complex system for the first time. Simple = good, difficult = bad.
Right now HCIBlog.com points to GoDaddy spam. Jay Zeschin suggests that short-term I should put the Google RSS filtering for HCI-related stuff, which is a solid idea and I should probably have spent less time writing this article and more time going on that. Others have suggested making money on it through similar news/RSS aggregating. One person wanted to buy it for $100.
I think I’ll do a temporary RSS feed for now. You win again, Jay.
