links for 2008-04-21

• ia summit write-up :: ia play
  Karen's write-up of her Miami IA Summit experience. Fortunately misses out me rambling in the bar on the Saturday night...
  (tags: informationarchitecture iasummit karenloasby iaplay)
• Cranky IA Summit Quotes » UX Crank
  ...and even more fortunately I don't feature here either
  (tags: uxcrank iasummit)
• The Flowers of Crete « Crete
  Links to a YouTube video of wild flowers from our adopted home, in case I'm finding London too urban. Don't think they are as good as my wife's set of flower pictures though.
  (tags: crete greece flowers youtube)
• London Underground Tube Diary - Going Underground's Blog
  "In a uncharacteristically sunny afternoon, yesterday we boarded the 1938 train and started our ride from Ealing Common to Uxbridge. The London Transport Museum had put on special trips on a 1938 stock train". Kind of cross with myself for missing this.
  (tags: londontransport underground tube goingunderground)
• iPlayer tip jar? » Pete Ashton’s Blog
  "Here's an idea for how the iPlayer might evolve. Let me set up a fund on the BBC site, pay as you go style. I credit this with £10 and after each program I can decide whether or not I want to pay for it, and how much".
  (tags: peteashton bbc iplayer)
• U.S.S. Galena: 1862 | Shorpy :: History in HD
  "1862. On the James River in Virginia. 'Effect of Confederate shot on Federal ironclad Galena'". This old photo blog occasionally turns up absolute gems like this.
  (tags: usa photograph civilwar)
• Fire 'em, those people next door - Mark Mardell's Euroblog
  "It's not childish, and it's not ridiculous!". Excellent piece from Mark Mardell of the name dispute between Greece and FYROM/Macedonia
  (tags: macedonia fyrom greece markmardell bbc)
• Alleged jumping of housing queues by new arrivals is a myth, research reveals | UK news | The Guardian
  "The IPPR shows that out of the 10.1m council tenants in Britain, 9 million are UK-born and just over 1 m were born outside the country. It adds that only 183,300 tenants arrived in Britain in the last five years".
  (tags: equality housing immigration guardian)
• Bob Eggington on BBC online | Media | The Guardian
  "Let's not forget about search. The existing search is rubbish. It needs fixing - and fixing quickly. Sorting out search might even be achievable within months of Highfield's successor arriving. The rest might take a little longer..."
  (tags: bbc guardian search)
• RSS + social media = “Passive-Aggressive Newsgathering” « Online Journalism Blog
  "It seems to me that the first stage for any journalist or budding journalist lies along two paths: subscribing to a reliable collection of RSS feeds (and email alerts); and exploring a collection of networks".
  (tags: socialmedia onlinejournalism rss)

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