17 September 2008 – 6:52 pm
17 September 2008 – 6:02 pm
An article I wrote about "how to avoid students" in Brum — for a magazine aimed at them. [link]
17 September 2008 – 5:09 pm
14 September 2008 – 3:01 pm
Only a concept at this stage, but what a concept!
9 September 2008 – 4:36 pm
Martin Belam cooly assesses Zager and Evan's quality of prediction. [link]
6 September 2008 – 12:12 am
Wordle will take a bunch of text, or a feed and create word pictures like this:
Not only can you chose fonts, colours, layout styles and number of words, it animates in a really nice way as the pictures build. Loveley
Smashing Telly is a TV blog that unlike Watchification, finds and embeds content from around the web [link]
Jodie Silsby has produced the Portsmouth Vernacular Map.
A lovingly created map of Portsmouth with roads replaced by local phrases (there’s also a dictionary). Super, it almost makes you want to move there. Apparently London is next for the treatment — come do Birmingham instead please.
(via D’log)
A platitude that is sitting in my brain, please ignore.
Big companies research the market before launching a new product (doubly so before “relauching” an existing one). Then they try to hit their target, shaping the product to “what the users want”. Tiny companies, or people just doing it for the love, make what they want to see.
As few can articulate what they want until they see it chasing what people say (or your research says) they want is a path to average.
So, do what you want rather than what you think people might want and you have a chance of being above average. But you might fail.
