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The Winter Olympics online review: Part 6 - Germany, Canada, and video overview
Over the last week or so I've been reviewing online newspaper coverage of the recent Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. In the final part of this series, I want to look at elements of coverage in Germany and Canada, and present an overview video with some clips of the sites in action.
The Winter Olympics online review: Part 5 - Austrian coverage
The fifth part of this series looking at online newspaper coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics is an overview of some of the features that appeared in the Austrian press before the games got underway.
Whatever Paul Waugh thinks, The Guardian's MPs Expenses crowd-sourcing experiment was no "total failure"
In describing The Guardian's MPs Expenses crowd-sourcing experiment as a "total failure", the Evening Standard's Paul Waugh gives us a glimpse of one of the reasons the traditional media industry finds it hard to innovate with technology.
The Winter Olympics online review: Part 4 - "The Twitter Olympics"
In part 4 of this series examining online coverage by newspapers of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, I'm looking at uses of Twitter from Sweden and Germany, and a community platform in South Korea.
"We should have hung them when they were ten. Killing children is wrong" - Retweeting without verification
Yesterday I tweeted a comment I'd noticed on the Daily Mail website underneath an article about Jon Venables: Best ever user comment in the Mail? "We should have hung them when they were ten. Killing children is wrong" http://bit.ly/cTnFrE Whether the original comment was intentionally funny or not, my message got retweeted quite a bit, and I noticed something curious about the way it was distributed. A lot of the retweets missed off the link to the source. People echoed...
The Winter Olympics online review: Part 3 - Online tabloids in Sweden
In the third part of this series, I'm reviewing the very similar online coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics from two of Sweden's biggest papers - Aftonbladet and Expressen.
The Winter Olympics online review: Part 2 - Visual navigation in Italy and France
The second part of this series looking at online newspaper coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games has a focus on visual navigation elements appearing in France and Italy.
The Winter Olympics online review: Part 1
The opening post in a series looking at online newspaper coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics from around the world.
Privacy, distribution, licences and standards - more notes on the London Linked Data meet-up
In the last of several posts around the web about the 2nd London Linked Data meet-up, here are my notes on issues of privacy, distribution, software licences and setting usable standards for open linked data.
Human readable linked data URIs - a follow up
My blog post yesterday about human readable linked data URIs sparked a lot of discussion in the comments and on Twitter. In this follow up post, I argue that just because it wouldn't make sense for the BBC to do it with their /programmes URI schema, doesn't mean it should be ditched as a worthwhile aspiration for those who can manage it.
Does 'Linked Data' need human readable URIs?
One of the topics that came up in last week's London Linked Data meet-up was whether URIs needed to be human readable, or whether computer generated random mixes of characters were acceptable. For me, human readable is the way to go every time.
Implementing hNews on a blog - what does 'Value Added News' mean for a blogger?
As part of the recent redesign process on the currybetdotnet blog, I implemented the 'Value Added News' hNews microformat to provide additional metadata on my articles. Doing so raised some questions that were not just practical about how to implement the format, but philosophical about the nature of the blog itself.
Fixing the IA of an IA's blog: Part 4
In the final part of this series about my recent blog redesign, I look at how I set the criteria for success, and use the Venn diagram in the top right-hand corner of the banner area to set my content strategy.
Evening Standard's Richard Godwin can't stand IT - even for fact-checking NASA's "space pen"
Richard Godwin's argument that schools should use pencils rather than the latest technology would be a lot more convincing if he didn't back it up with the tired old urban myth about NASA's "Space Pen".
Fixing the IA of an IA's blog: Part 3
In part three of this series looking at the currybetdotnet redesign, I talk about the new 'hub' and 'theme' pages, and what I hope they will achieve.
Fixing the IA of an IA's blog: Part 2
In the second part of this series looking at the how and why of the recent changes I've made to the site, I'm focusing on the homepage and the demotion of the linklog.
Fixing the IA of an IA's blog: Part 1
At the beginning of the year I changed the design and information architecture of this blog. This series of posts examines how and why I finally fixed the IA of an IA's blog.
Tomorrow's newsmakers today - Student newspaper online review: Part 3
In the final part of my review of user experience features in the online versions of university student union newspapers, I'm looking at social media usage, and the moderation overhead of providing online comment facilities on a student newspaper.
Tomorrow's newsmakers today - Student newspaper online review: Part 2
In part two of this series looking at some of the user experience features in the online versions of university student union newspapers, I'm examining student news sources like Pluto Online in Preston, and The Demon in Leicester.
Tomorrow's newsmakers today - Student newspaper online review: Part 1
With my interest in the future of news, I've been looking at the digital publishing by the people who might be producing the news in the future. This series looks at some of the user experience features in the online versions of university student union newspapers.
Day of the Triffids: How long would the Internet survive, and could you still publish news on it?
African Cup of Nations online coverage review: Part 4 - British and American online newspapers
African Cup of Nations online coverage review: Part 3 - African newspapers
African Cup of Nations online coverage review: Part 2 - African newspapers
African Cup of Nations online coverage review: Part 1 - UK
The flawed French Facebook & Twitter experiment - social media is a conversation, not a newswire
'News Linked Data Summit' on Fleet Street
The puzzle of preserving user experience
'The curation gap' - what journalism can learn from "Citizen History"
With professionals of this quality, who needs 'citizen journalist' enemies?
The UX of moving house: Part 8 - BT's customer service on Twitter
The UX of moving house: Part 7 - Sky's dreadful customer service
The UX of moving house: Part 6 - Officialdom
The UX of moving house: Part 5 - A more native web experience
The UX of moving house: Part 4 - Transport links
The UX of moving house: Part 3 - Experimental interfaces and 'the curse of the tiny image'
The UX of moving house: Part 2 - Estate agent search results
The UX of moving house...with a pregnant spouse: Part 1
"In the future, there will be journalists"
The curious case of the enterprise software design from the nineties that just would not die
Mobile broadband from Three is disposable broadband from Three
How the global climate change editorial project appeared online
Don't put Johnston Press on trial over their paywall experiment
London IA Mini 4: Max Gadney - "Information isn't beautiful"
"Free vs Fee – the Future of News": Notes and take-away quotes - Part 2
"Thierry Henry and the net" piece on Guardian PDA blog
"Free vs Fee – the Future of News": Notes and take-away quotes - Part 1
Comments are free...to inform and to entertain, as well as infuriate
Carbon, clippings and checking out Wave - more cool stuff on guardian.co.uk
Notes and quotes from Ecommerce Expo: Part 1 - "How little changes made a big difference at BA.com"
Windows 7 overtakes Linux usage on guardian.co.uk in just 4 days
Live-blogging the BNP on Question Time across the web
Twitter - dangerous hunting ground for paedophiles. And The Sun's football correspondents
Contribute your information sharing new year resolutions to December's FUMSI magazine
5 unintended digital consequences of having a baby
Stephen King 'Under The Dome' novel snippets invade the Internet
What Jan Moir can teach us about handling an Internet brand crisis
Guess which Jan Moir article is missing from the Daily Mail's search results?
Tweeting a link or a picture? Don't forget to blog it as well...
A (re)design for life - the new environmentguardian.co.uk front page
Revenue share deal spikes newspaper guns about England's pay-per-view Internet World Cup qualifier
Google ads battleground between The Sun and Labour
The Guardian's 'river of tones'
London Linked Data meet up: Notes and take-away quotes - part 2
London Linked Data meet up: Notes and take-away quotes - part 1
'Linked Data and the future of journalism' - part 2
English Defence League advertises Muslim dating agency on their forum
'Linked Data and the future of journalism' - part 1
UX London redux video: James Box on Wireframes 2.0 - part 5
However much James Murdoch wishes, the World Service made a BBC News website inevitable
Mail homepage goes indigo - well, 'Indigo Collection' anyway
"Where can I find the UKs cheapest cars" - hey, we are number #1 for this really long search phrase!
In praise of Wikpedia's football coverage
London IA Mini Conference III: UX London Redux
'thelondonpaper' website review
The BT broadband boxes that have muzzled the Muswell Hill fibre trial
Interview with Martin Belam: Part 7 - News branding and 'authoritative information' on the web
Interview with Martin Belam: Part 6 - Measuring news consumer behaviour online
Interview with Martin Belam: Part 5 - Changes in the delivery of news
Interview with Martin Belam: Part 4 - Information Architecture in a news context
Interview with Martin Belam: Part 3 - What makes good Information Architecture?
Interview with Martin Belam: Part 2 - Perceptions of Information Architecture as a discipline
Interview with Martin Belam: Part 1 - Internet and intranet navigation trends
Baby P killer images lose their impact online
Free newspapers or free wifi - which appeals more?
"Bang Bang" - What B.A. Robertson can teach the news industry about the price of scarcity
Birmingham City Council - an inspiration in how not to do web procurement
Reasons the music industry has lost the plot #12 & #35
"Graceful Hacks" - UX, IA and interaction design tips for hack days
The tyranny of chronology: Part 6 - The video
Social media unplugged: Part 4 - Google Bookmarks, Fark and Mixx
Social media unplugged: Part 3 - Newsvine, Reddit and Facebook
Social media unplugged: Part 2 - Yahoo! Buzz and Delicious
Social media unplugged: Part 1 - Digg and StumbleUpon
The tyranny of chronology: Part 5 - Journalism centred design
The tyranny of chronology: Part 4 - Meaningful metadata and our missing librarians
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Day of the Triffids
If everyone suddenly went blind, how long would the Internet survive, and could you still publish news on it?
With professionals of this quality, who needs 'citizen journalist' enemies?
It is hard to argue that ethics and quality set the 'professional journalist' apart from the amateur blogger, if the 'professional' keeps publishing articles so wrong that they have to be deleted.
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