SiteMorse has done some surveys of Government sites using its automated web monitoring software.
Archive for June, 2003
Information Foraging: Why Google Makes People Leave Your Site Faster is the latest Nielsen article. It’s good.
SomersetOnLine » has a useful summary of how two-tier councils work, specifically how responsibilities are shared out.
MTSpeling (bad pun intended) does spell checking in Movable Type.
Why the Lib Dems will remain Britain’s third party by a UK conservative. And I agree with a large part of the commentary. Extraordinary. The hypothesis is that relying on swing voters means that the LibDems will never get enough votes to compete. They need to chip away at core voters, which they don’t appear to be doing.
www.logotypes.ru has thousands of corporate logos. Great fun, and useful too!
Grameen principles are working for phones in Bangladesh. Just brilliant.
modular robotics at PARC are super funky robotic creations. This is a good way of adding redundancy to a configuration, as you can carry unused robots in a setup and swap them in when necessary.
‘Nice Bombs Ya Got There’ looks at (scary) advances in X-Ray technology. Not one for the tending towards flab.
Virtual Cards Earn Tangible Cash discusses how real baseball cards are being traded that are never seen by the owners - very much like stocks and shares. Just as we thought that anyone should be able to set up a bank, so now we can set up a stock market.
Engaging with the Open Source Community (Part One) and Part Two. This is going to be important for me over the next month.
World’s Smallest and Most Flexible Mobile Printer. I want one of these inkjet random printing printers. Just fantastic!
How to Make Business Card Cubes. Classic lunchtime entertainment.
This Is Broken collects things that are broken in terms of user experience or interface. Intriguing.
Hektor.ch is under construction.. But for the moment:
Hektor is an inkjet printer made out of a can of spraypaint and a series of clever, machine-controlled pulleys. The site features a making-of guide in PDF and a really sexy movie of Hektor in action.
It’s brilliant - what a neat idea. Thanks to BoingBoing for the text.
Ben comments on RFID chips and the threat to privacy based on a great Register article on the subject. My take on this: yes, there could be repercussions of embedded “where are you” devices everywhere. However, until they know who I am rather than just that I am, then we’re probably OK. On a related note, CCTV was supposed to be a privacy invader when it was rolled out nationwide, and I don’t see many people complaining now. Update: more links on RFID.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf resurfaces. Good spot, Ben!
E&Y study on European e-government services.
