links for 2010-11-18

"While creating online spaces for that activity, developing tools, apps and widgets to help people reveal their stories or unearth facts will undoubtedly continue to have an important role, I’m hopeful that enabling people to connect face-to-face and work on stories together will also lead to exciting, innovative collaborations going forward."

Kudos for Audible for reacting to being listed on the dark patterns website by using it as an impetus to improve the user experience.

Notes from the launch of the Leeds Community News Hub, which featured talks by my colleagues Sarah Hartley and Meg Pickard

"My belief is that conferences and events that involve the geographical location as strongly as the conference space are the ones that are most likely to continue to succeed. By exploring the spaces around us as analogies for better learning and understanding we will surely have more fulfilling experiences as organisers, speakers and attendees. Make the city and the experience of it part of the conference, the learning and the experience. Avoid conference experiences being isolated in windowless spaces – fine for shopping (supposedly), rubbish for learning."

Somewhat meta, as a lot of the links point back to currybetdotnet or things I've written on Guardian.co.uk

Another really thoughtful blog post from Jonathan Stray who is making himself into essential reading material.

Rather sadly, it was only when I saw the screengrab of my unique toothpaste driven approach to CAPTCHA in this article, that I realised it had a glaring typo in it...