School tests seem to be all the rage at the moment By Nic Price on 13 November 2005 — 1 min read You Passed 8th Grade Math Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Math? I have no idea what 8th Grade is, I should find out. The BBC is doing something along these lines with the Weekly Curriculum Quiz but of course being British doesn’t give you the code to boast about it... More
Broken? By Nic Price on 11 November 2005 — 1 min read Hi, if you’ve arrived from thisisbroken, the original post is here. More
Tips for managing email By Nic Price on 10 November 2005 — 1 min read Here’s something that I wrote back in February and have been meaning to put in a post on here for ages… There are quite a few good guides to managing email. The latest one I’ve read is this one by Mark Hurst who runs a consultancy in New York. You don’t have to read all... More
links for 2005-11-09 By Nic Price on 10 November 2005 — 1 min read FreePint – Enterprise Search Guidebook Martin White’s report (tags: work, intranet, search) MAYA Design: Aradhana Goel Specialist in experience design for complex, information-rich environments. (tags: design, experience architecture, information design) More
links for 2005-11-08 By Nic Price on 9 November 2005 — 1 min read Resurgence issue 203 – A CULTURE OF SIMPLICITY by Leonard Koren (tags: toread) Methodology – General Methodology – Time series analysis and seasonal adjustment (tags: statistics, statistical analysis, stats, time series, series analysis) More
Sound familiar? By Nic Price on 8 November 2005 — 1 min read As I reviewed the company’s dossier, product line, and customer experience reviews, I realized this CEO had a much bigger problem than his ads. The chain had lost its way. It had alienated its core customer base by abandoning the electronics business and becoming more of an appliance store. It had pushed design and manufacturing... More
What not to email By Nic Price on 8 November 2005 — 1 min read Five email tics I’d love for you to lose For the love of God, people; can we get the word out on these? Format courtesy of my other site. 1. The liberal use of the “VERY HIGH PRIORITY!!!” flag 2. The 18-line sig about all the Bad Things that will happen to me if I... More
Food4Thought campaign from the British Heart Foundation (BHF) By Nic Price on 7 November 2005 — 1 min read With junk food giant visual design treatment. Frightening food facts about what’s really on your plate. More info on the Food4Thought website. More than one in three children do not know what chips are made of, a survey for the British Heart Foundation reveals. A worrying 36% of 8-14 year-olds could not correctly identify the... More
Global Mentoring By Nic Price on 6 November 2005 — 1 min read “I will mentor a minimum of two people in the developing world in the area of my skills base and expertise (media, communications, broadcasting , democratic media building, participatory media, community video). I will do this for free for a minimum of six months (in my free time). The mentoring will be in person or... More
Al for bet By Nic Price on 6 November 2005 — 1 min read Here’s my memory’s version of what I’ve just discovered after a Google search for n for lope is called the Cockney Alphabet, but should surely be called the Al for Bet. We used to have fun trying to remember these or making them up on car journeys when I was growing up. Some of them... More