beatnic - just wondering

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• SignMeUp.com | Event Registration, Event Management, Event Planning, Online Tickets
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• SourceWire | Press Releases - 1000 Delegates from over 200 of World’s Leading Corporates to ‘Attend’ Unique Global First
  Press release for IBF 24 - a big online conference about intranet innovation taking place on June 18th - which I’m involved in organising.
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This year on Sunday 13th April, my Dad is running in the London Marathon.

He’s a London Marathon veteran, but this is his first since breaking a bone in his neck two years ago in a near fatal fall while walking in the Swiss Alps.

This year he’s raising money for the cancer charity Myeloma UK. Myeloma is a form of bone marrow cancer, which my Mum was diagnosed with four years ago.

You can donate securely online right now via his Just Giving web page.

• London is Free - Your online guide to free events in our expensive capital.
  Good idea this. Does what it says on the tin. [HT to my Dad]
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• Convocation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  “A Convocation (Latin ‘calling together’, translating the Greek ecclesia) is a group of people formally assembled for a special purpose.”

  It is also a collective noun for eagles.

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Generally I like the new look BBC homepage which officially went live last week after a couple of months in “beta”.

It’s got most of what I want: news, weather, listings - the iplayer link could be more visible.

Redesigns are rarely straightforward to get right. I’ve overseen a few in my time. You’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t - as they say.

It looks like the feedback from people who’ve commented on the BBC’s internet blog has been mainly positive.

One recurring theme in the feedback, however, and the one thing I would like to see changed, is the use of colour change when different “tabs” are selected.

It goes against human nature and breaks the Gestalt principle of grouping objects by similarity.

Below are four thumbnail images from today’s BBC homepage to illustrate. Click on the thumbnail to see the full size image.

When I click on a coloured tab, key elements around the page change colour, using the tab colour as their base.

Sub-consciously I infer a relationship between everything which switches to the new colour-scheme, when in fact there is no relationship.