beatnic - just wondering

• 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 has been steady for 3 years and enterprise portal is virtually flat-lining all the way.
  (tags: googletrends intranet enterpriseportal portal search google web)

• 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 metrics measurement success failure)

• Let’s go with the children
  Guide to good places to go with children in the UK.
  (tags: children kids daysout uk guide)

It usually doesn’t.

• 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 to understand the inadequacy of the photograph in describing this essence, to bring
  (tags: photography calendarsculpture)

• 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 work
  (tags: roundedcorners css hacks webdesign)

• 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 this! Or better still watch it if the links are still working. Very funny.
  (tags: humour politics USA Bush Colbert humor funny)

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 10km in an earlier post.

Using Gmaps Pedometer here’s the circuit at 9.7km (I’d add 300metres to get to the circuit from where I live and back.

You can also toggle elevation on and off to show you all the hills in profile.

• Information design on Squidoo
  One of my photos is featured in this lens!
  (tags: informationdesign infodesign)

…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?

What if the text messages you receive on your phone appeared in bubbles above your head?

[Thanks Lydia]

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 and 42 tonnes in weight, this beautiful creature will capture the hearts and minds of everyone who sees it.

The Sultan’s Elephant is played out over four days in the streets, squares and public spaces of central London. Whether you dip into it for three hours or follow its progress for three days, this breathtaking show will live in your memory forever.

Will you find it?

[Thanks Sam M]

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Talkin’ bout a media revolution
  (tags: richardsambrook web socialmedia)

• Corporate Usability Maturity: Stages 5-8 (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
  (tags: usability nielsen intranet ucd userexperience work usercentreddesign design)

• BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Obituary: John Kenneth Galbraith
  (tags: liberalism liberal galbraith economics humanism)