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January 8, 2003 by Luke Hoyland / 0 Comments
IHT move marks “integrated NYT report”
Article by the New York Times’s David Kirkpatrick in the International Herald Tribune marking the first issue under the sole ownership of the NYT. Coverage from other papers such as the Washington Post will be reduced. The IHT’s executive editor, Howell Raines, says the company is moving toward “a kind of integrated New York Times [...]
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December 31, 2002 by Luke Hoyland / 0 Comments
Back to History
Good little debate on Slashdot on the ubiquitous browser Back button. One poster remarks, Back is “almost the only software feature in existence that is universally understood”. But does it really do what you want? “Back” really functions as taking the user “up” the directory tree, whereas people perhaps expect it to be “previous”. (From [...]
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December 17, 2002 by Luke Hoyland / 0 Comments
Moral compass of the internet
Wired bio of Sergey Brin, founder of Google and its head policymaker. Brin tackles issues such as the Church of Scientology’s position on criticism, China’s recent Google lock-out, racist or inflammatory websites, and companies’ attempts to optimise their ranking. In steering the wired world’s zeitgeist he could be regarded as one of the most powerful [...]
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December 14, 2002 by Luke Hoyland / 0 Comments
Apple drop X-only January plan
Apple have abandoned their plan to sell only Macs that boot in OS X from January. Report has the usual Quark waffle. (From CNET News.Com)
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December 14, 2002 by Luke Hoyland / 0 Comments
IBM chip suits Apple
IBM have confirmed that their new 64-bit PowerPC 970 chip is AltiVec-compatible, which, I’m told, is good news for those who reckon Apple will start using it. (From MacNN)
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December 2, 2002 by Luke Hoyland / 0 Comments
Service providers: 1 in 10 jobs now from InDesign
A pretty extensive voxpop survey by Jim Dalrymple on what people think of the QuarkXPress/AdobeInDesign battle. Adobe has made significant gains since InDesign 2.0 (up 188% year on year), and service providers say the number of jobs they receive from InDesign files has gone from 1 in 100 to 1 in 10. But he reckons [...]
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November 26, 2002 by Luke Hoyland / 0 Comments
IT projects usually fail — KPMG
Gulp. A KPMG survey of 134 companies worldwide found that 56 per cent have had to write off as a failure at least one IT project in the past year. The average loss incurreed: 12.5 million euros. Sixty-seven per cent reckoned that their project management function was in need of improvement. A principal reason for [...]
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November 19, 2002 by Luke Hoyland / 0 Comments
BBC still by far the most popular UK news website
Latest Nielsen NetRatings stats for online news sites here. In October the BBC copped 2.8 million unique viewers; the Guardian 1.3 million, CNN 0.65 million; Ananova 0.5 million; the Telegraph 0.48 million; the FT 0.47 million, and the Sun 0.46 million. The BBC has by far the longest average time per month at 55 minutes.
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November 19, 2002 by Luke Hoyland / 0 Comments
El Pais now a paid site
El Pais began charging for most of its content Monday November 19. There are two payment options: an annual fee of €80 or a biannual fee of €50. There is also a micropayment option of 0.5 euros for a PDF or 0.2 euros for an html article. (From E-Media Tidbits)
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November 12, 2002 by Luke Hoyland / 0 Comments
Clarín produces electronic edition
The Argentinian daily Clarín is running a free digital edition using the facsimile page pane, HTML-optimised story pane model. It’s pretty impressive, and includes an “other stories” list at the end of each story, No PDFs so far as I can see. See also discussion on Metafilter. (From Metafilter)
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November 10, 2002 by Luke Hoyland / 0 Comments
FT, Slate doing trials with tablet PC
The Financial Times, Forbes, the New Yorker, Slate, Les Echoes and Wirtschafts Woche have signed deals with Microsoft to develop tools to publish trial tablet PC magazines. They are hoping to have something usable some time in 2003. Despite the limited take-up of ebooks, the publishers hope to appeal to advertisers for similar reasons: the [...]
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November 8, 2002 by Luke Hoyland / 0 Comments
When good interfaces go crufty
Interesting essay on “cruft” — interface conventions that harken back to redundant necessities — by one Matthew Thomas on his weblog, plus some discussion on Slashdot. Lots of nods to Isys Information Architect’s Interface Hall of Shame, home of our favourite Lotus Notes review. (From Slashdot)
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November 7, 2002 by Luke Hoyland / 0 Comments
Link farm front pages need to consider Google page design
I’ve got to agree with Steve Outing on this. News websites just haven’t learnt enough from print or TV as regards what to do with their front pages. The headlines before a news programme, or the items on a broadsheet newspaper front page, will rarely stretch beyond 10 items (generic indexes excluded). Even with all [...]
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October 29, 2002 by Luke Hoyland / 0 Comments
Reuters sued for publishing public URL
Here’s an odd one. Swedish tech firm Intentia International has filed a suit against Reuters for obtaining an earnings report for the company from a web page that Intentia considered private on the grounds that no public navigation directed vistors to the page. The URL, however, was completely open to the world inasmuch as no [...]
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October 29, 2002 by Luke Hoyland / 0 Comments
Pfeiffer on EidosMedia
Industry pundit Andreas Pfeiffer considers Xsmile, the XML-based pagination component of EidosMedia’s Méthode publishing system, and reckons that such systems “could prefigure what standards driven workflow solutions of the future could look like”. I did a review of Méthode for GNL IT – colleagues can read this in the “IT Library” or whatever it’s called. [...]
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