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Fun with Matt Jones at Webstock

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

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One of my favourite presentations at Webstock this year was from Matt Jones. Happily, he’s posted his slides on slideshare.net. Not quite the same without his animated presentation, but still good. Look out for the tweeting pot plant. The Demon-Haunted World View more documents from Matt Jones. (tags: sensors archigram)

‘Why the Drudge Report is one of web’s best designed sites’

Friday, November 21, 2008

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This 37 Signals post about why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web is well worth a read. Here's an excerpt. Breaking news is breaking news: Have you seen “breaking news” on MSNBC or CNN lately? Almost anything can pass for breaking news now. “So and so speaks to the press about this or that” is now breaking news. Breaking news used to mean something seriously big and important or spectacular just happened. But the major news sites have watered it way down.

A few words on the Herald’s little blue box

Monday, September 8, 2008

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One of the things I like about nzherald.co.nz is the blue tinted panel that appears in story pages and lists other headlines you can click directly through to. I like it because I can work my way through a dozen stories without having to click back to the homepage or section page in between each one - something that drives me nuts on other news sites.

A word on design

Monday, August 4, 2008

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This piece about Harold Evans is a nice read (thanks to Chris Bourke for the link). The former UK Sunday Times editor whose books on editing, typography and layout inspired a couple of generations of journalists/designers in the UK and beyond, talked to the Independent on Sunday about newspaper design, now and then.

New look coming for the UK Telegraph

Sunday, July 20, 2008

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The UK Telegraph is close to showing off its redesign, which has been in planning for a good while. Martin Stabe spells out the changes (and has a few images) over at PressGazette.co.uk.

Page numbers add context for online readers

Sunday, February 24, 2008

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I notice the Guardian has added a nice little feature at the bottom of stories which shows which page the story ran on in the paper, if it did, where it was first published and when it was last updated online.

One-liners from Webstock

Sunday, February 17, 2008

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I got back last night from a really productive week in Wellington meeting people and attending Webstock, a conference for web designers but universally relevant. A big thank-you to the organisers: the event was well-run, aside from highly patchy wi-fi, and turned out to be an engaging, useful and enjoyable couple of days.

Words of the day: fun, simple, people

Thursday, February 14, 2008

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So much for plans to blog live from Webstock: wonky wifi meant I was offline most of the day - at a web conference, go figure. Better luck tomorrow. Webstock did a great job today. There was a lot on and I feel like I've been around the world in a day, or something equally exhausting (who knew sitting still and listening could be so tiring). Highlights for me were a look at Django, which seemed every bit as usable as I'd heard, plus a great session from Jason Santa Maria on design as narrative and being about storytelling.

First question for ‘Ask AP’ is: where are the answers?

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

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AP announces the launch of Ask AP, where readers can ask questions about the stories that interest them. "AP editors will choose some of the questions sent in by readers like you and get answers from AP reporters and editors — the people who spend their days covering the very issues you're curious about," the news organisation says on Yahoo.

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