Monthly Archives: May 2006

links for 2006-05-25

[Reading time: 1 - 2 minutes] Google Trends (tags: google search trends web) Google Trends: intranet, enterprise portal, portal Comparison between searches for intranet, enterprise portal, and portal. Portal wins hands down and appears to be on the increase, intranet … Continue reading

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links for 2006-05-24

[Reading time: < 1 minute] Are you using the wrong web metrics?: New Thinking: Gerry McGovern “Volume is simply not enough when it comes to measuring the success of a website. Volume can hide failure.” (tags: mcgovern stats statistics web … Continue reading

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links for 2006-05-19

[Reading time: < 1 minute] Let’s go with the children Guide to good places to go with children in the UK. (tags: children kids daysout uk guide)

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When someone says “It goes without saying…”

[Reading time: < 1 minute] It usually doesn’t.

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links for 2006-05-12

[Reading time: < 1 minute] www.nonphotographyday.com Non- photography day is an effort on my part to revive the moment by putting down the camera. It is a day to think about how life exists, in essence and not appearance and … Continue reading

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links for 2006-05-11

[Reading time: < 1 minute] SitePoint Tools : Spanky Corners — The SitePoint Corners Store ‘Spanky Corners’ is an experimental technique for using only CSS to produced ’round-cornered content boxes’ with semantically pure markup. It does not require JavaScript to … Continue reading

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links for 2006-05-09

[Reading time: 1 - 2 minutes] Gmaps Pedometer Exactly what I’ve been looking for. Plot out your running or cycling routes. (tags: distances round-trip googlemaps running cycling) Daily Kos: Re-Improved Colbert transcript (now with complete text of Colbert-Thomas video!) Read … Continue reading

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Gmaps Pedometer

[Reading time: < 1 minute] Brilliant Google Maps hack, just what I’ve been looking for. Work out how far you’re walking, running, cycling etc. using virtual map pins. Turns out I wasn’t far off when I guessed Sunday Circuit at … Continue reading

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links for 2006-05-04

[Reading time: < 1 minute] Information design on Squidoo One of my photos is featured in this lens! (tags: informationdesign infodesign)

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Is it just me or…

[Reading time: < 1 minute] …are more and more people saying things like “Is it just myself or…”? And am I the only one feeling somewhat irrationally unnerved by this grammatical incorrectness?

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Just a thought

[Reading time: < 1 minute] What if the text messages you receive on your phone appeared in bubbles above your head? [Thanks Lydia]

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42 ton elephant in london this weekend

[Reading time: < 1 minute] The Sultan’s Elephant is a spectacle you’ve only imagined… Created by theatrical magicians Royal de Luxe, it tells the story of a sultan from far-off lands and his magical, time-travelling mechanical elephant. Forty feet high … Continue reading

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links for 2006-05-02

[Reading time: < 1 minute] BBC NEWS | Technology | Talkin’ bout a media revolution (tags: richardsambrook web socialmedia)

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links for 2006-05-01

[Reading time: < 1 minute] Corporate Usability Maturity: Stages 5-8 (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) (tags: usability nielsen intranet ucd userexperience work usercentreddesign design)

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links for 2006-04-30

[Reading time: < 1 minute] BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Obituary: John Kenneth Galbraith (tags: liberalism liberal galbraith economics humanism)

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