links for 2008-04-11

This post is getting a second lease of life via Google, from people trying to search for information about the BBC iPlayer running on a Wii, which was one of my spoof predictions back in July last year

"A Penn State research study showed 80%of searches are informational in nature, whereas 10% are navigational and another 10% are transactional".

"We can do better. We can get people engaged with digital services in a way that tells them how they work and why they should care enough to use them. I also believe we can do this without explicitly making them fill out a sign-up form as a first step".

Probably a bit late to be trying to read tips on successful presentations...

Looking like the start of an interesting series, although not entirely sure I can agree with the quotes about the worldview of the typical European in the 16th & 17th century.

Name-checks Chipwrapper along with some rather more authoritative sources of info.

I couldn't for sure say I was a "techno-Bedouin", but my sight-seeing around Miami was basically planned around where there would be wifi. And mojitos. Especially the mojitos.

Nicely put into layman's terms. I'm fairly certain I should be using <cite> more often though.