A lot of bottle This is brilliant! My Aussie friend John sent this to me asking… “who says we don’t have culture in Australia?” More
Bonus-centred design We’ve all seen it. The dreaded “Skip Intro”. The picture of the boss on the homepage obscuring any useful content or functionality. I was just discussing this with a friend and came up with a new name for an old problem “Bonus-centred design” Here’s how it works: Take direct orders from the boss. Do not... More
N95 – two things I can never remember how to do I’ve had my Nokia N95 phone since June. I’m pretty pleased with it. It’s good for looking at websites, the camera is great despite the shutter lag, video quality good. It’s ok for having phone calls on. Battery life’s ok. I haven’t got the patience with the GPS, and sometimes I do wonder if it’s... More
Keeping up to date with East Dulwich on the internet: Part 3 – Twitter tracking In this series of short articles, I’m looking at different ways of subject-tracking on the internet. Previous articles covered Google Alerts and Technorati Watchlists. This article is about Twitter and its tracking feature, using East Dulwich as the example subject. Twitter Twitter lets you share your thoughts with the world. You can do this by... More
links for 2007-11-21 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Competitions code unveiled by BBC “The code says every entry to a contest ‘should have a fair chance of winning’ and that winners should be ‘genuine’.” Good grief. (tags: bbc competitions code rocketscience) More
links for 2007-11-20 Long vs. Short Articles as Content Strategy (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) (tags: cost benefit content jakobnielsen web usability) More
Britain’s online newspapers accessibility scores – should do better Today Martin Belam publishes the scores from his excellent series of articles looking at the accessibility of the UK’s main national newspaper websites. The Times came out on top, even though it makes no use of an on-screen text-resizing widget, nor of accesskeys as shortcuts for keyboard users. Overall my conclusion has to be that... More
Keeping up to date with East Dulwich on the internet: Part 2 – Technorati Watchlists How do you keep on top of everything everyone’s saying about East Dulwich, or any other subject, online? In this series of short articles I’m going to run through a few things you can set up quickly and for free to follow what people are saying about the things you’re interested in. [Also in this... More
Welcome to England! To mark last week’s change of London’s Eurostar terminus from Waterloo to St Pancras here’s a photo I snapped from the bus a couple of weeks ago. This parade of shops and restaurants is immediately opposite King’s Cross and St Pancras stations. Sandwiched between Orlando’s Cafe and Eddie’s Fish Bar is Euro Tandoori. As they... More
links for 2007-11-17 Sam Murphy on the new approach to running that reduces the risk of injury | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited (tags: running alexander technique injury guardian health fitness) More