Month: August 2007
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Information visualisation
The whole way in which we visualize, represent and navigate information and connections is increasingly and endlessly fascinating. I’m a real sucker for interesting new ones, so here’s a couple which caught my eye: Arc from Digg Labs…"stories arrange themselves around the circle as users Digg them. Larger stories have more Diggs" And as reported…
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How British Women Feel About the Weather
Bearing in mind the appalling Summer we’ve had (at least until this weekend) we thought it would be a bit of fun to poll our women’s panel (7,500 women…nationally representative) on it. So here it is people – how British women feel about the British weather: I count the days until I go to warmer…
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Blog Action Day
I’ve no idea whether this will make a difference but maybe, just maybe, it will so I’ll be supporting it on October 15th by posting on environmental issues. In a very short space of time they already reckon they’re reaching an audience of over 3m so that’s gotta be good…
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Ouch…
I apologise in advance for the low grade post but this made me laugh on a monday morning so I’m posting it… Via HeatWorld (yes I know but it’s strictly professional interest you understand…)
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Turning a Wispa Into a Shout
Ironically for a medium which is in many ways so accountable, data relating to the number of people who have actually looked at a particular website can still vary widely according to the source (and methodology) used. But there can be no doubt about what these numbers (from Comscore, which are as good as any,…
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The ‘E’ Trap
"E-mail now causes us the most problem in our working lives" This is a quote from Karen Renaud, Computer Scientist at the University of Glasgow. A study she’s just conducted, fitting monitors to 177 people’s computers, has revealed that people checked their e-mail up to 40 times an hour. Yes, 40. One third were stressed…
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Who’s the Funny Looking Bloke in the Corner?
Look who’s popped up on Kevin Robert’s blog. That dodgy goatee gets everywhere…
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Tony Wilson
Every now and then we all have flashbulb memories – the kind of memory laid down in photographic detail during a personally significant event. Like most people, my own flashbulb memories mostly relate to shocking events of international importance. But there are some, like the first time I saw a Jackson Pollock painting up close,…
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I’m taking a mini blogging holiday but only for a week so normal service will be resumed before you know it. Have a great week. Image courtesy