Archive for July, 2003
July 26th, 2003
While we’re talking about cinemas
A nice piece on filtering the right way
I’ve been on the edges of at least 2 movie-listings site projects in London, UK where we have about 150 screens within 30 minutes of what the americans so quaintly call Downtown.
It’s a source of continual frustration to me that these sites continue to be exact ripoffs […]
July 24th, 2003
Why the intermediary model is doomed
Here’s Alan, apparently advocating that government rips off UpMyStreet
“The killer applications for online government… three, a single place where you type your post code and everything you need to know about anything that concerns you and the area is displayed - this is a combination of what upmystreet did so well, the ONS […]
July 24th, 2003
Accesssible Odeon
I wish people did things like this more.
Accessible Odeon
Matthew Somerville has recreated the official Odeon site, but made the damn thing accessbile, quick and usable, rather than the vomit stain than Lateral produced. Jon Bains has been doing this long enough to know better, and the catalogue of unusability on the Odeon site […]
July 14th, 2003
pdf - unfit for human consumption
Someone should print out this article and staple a copy to the head of every .gov.uk webmaster. pdf is an abomination on the web.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030714.html
ahh, Jakob, I’ve missed you.