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Information architecture — Media — Technology — User experience

Surveying search across British online newspapers — Martin Belam — currybetdotnet

Currybet has a series of posts reviewing the search features of newspapers’ websites. This post summarises the results. He rates The Times, The Guardian and The Daily Mail most highly. I would agree with the latter two, although the last time I tried to search TimesOnline it was a complete nightmare.

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Media — Technology

Some parts of the blogosphere are like a completely different world. The bits that are all geared around marketing and business are especially odd. I will come back to that in a future post. In the meantime though, here is a post on a blog called Marketing Profs Daily Fix (via Weblog Tools Collection). Why […]

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Web

I’m not taking part in the Naked Day thingy, although it is quite interesting. If you’re really eager to see what this place looks like without any clothes on, Firefox users can just go into View > Page Style > No Style. As far as I’m aware that does the same thing. At least if […]

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Information architecture — Technology

There is an interesting post at canspice.org about tagging (not to be confused with the tagging that you get with memes). Tagging already has a couple of well-known problems. One of the major ones is the confusion over whether you should use singular or plural. Flickr cleverly bypassed the other problem — words such as […]

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Media — Personal — Technology

1/3 of 14–21-year-olds have a blog. Sort of. The article says it’s a third of 16–21-year-olds with an internet connection have a blog. And then there’s the age-old argument: what’s a blog, what isn’t, etc… Whatever, a third sounds fairly high, and is therefore newsworthy. Anyway, as one of these 14–21-year-olds, BBC Radio Scotland’s Newsdrive […]

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Technology

Wow, I just got a “golden ticket” to use WordPress.com. I signed up aaages ago when nobody really knew what WordPress.com was. Well, it’s a hosting site à la TypePad. Oh, and it’s free (so maybe more like a good version of Blogger, I guess). And it uses WordPress of course. So if you don’t […]

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Society — Technology

Confounding machines: How the future looked — Peter Edidin — The New York Times

Nothing dates as quickly as our ideas of the future. Here is an interesting article about the predictions people have made in the past about new technologies. So just remember to keep your hat on about this internet thing.

Bruce Bliven wrote about the radio in 1922:

There will be only one orchestra left on earth, giving nightly worldwide concerts; when all universities will be combined into one super-institution, conducting courses by radio for students in Zanzibar, Kamchatka and Oskaloose…

Though some made good points, and some predictions were quite right.

It is believed that brief pithy statements as to the positions of the parties and candidates, which reach the emotions through the minds of millions of radio listeners, will play an important part in the race to the White House.

All-in-all, an interesting read. Via Qwghlm.