Tell me if I’m misinterpreting this graph (based on an Ofcom report, via a BBC news story), but I think it’s saying that the time young people spend on the net comes particularly at the expense of time they might otherwise have spent on print media (magazines, local and national newspapers). Conversely the time middle-aged […]
Miscellany
Third year web site charts
This is my annual round-up of the most commonly accessed pages on this site and the most common search terms that lead people to it. I do it every August, partly because it seems like a slow month, and partly to mark the anniversary of the site. Here are the equivalent charts for the first […]
Top online brands and the calculation of charts
My friends at Futurelab have posted their own chart of the Top 100 Online Brands, as an alternative to that provided by Interbrand (here’s Interbrand’s 02005 list, with the 02006 one due soon [Update, 28 July: the link to 02005 list now redirects to the 02006 list]). What does a chart of brands mean, and […]
Why is Pandora big in Beverly Hills?
An amusing little bit of trivia about Pandora, the online music discovery service that I’ve written about a few times (here’s my most in-depth review). Yesterday’s CNET News feature on Pandora mentions in passing that the most popular zip code of Pandora users is Beverly Hills’ 90210. Pandora is only licensed in the US. To […]
About blog updates
If anyone reading this has experience of running two blogs that overlap in their coverage, I’d be interested in your advice on the following issue. Much of what I write on this blog is a by-product of my work and the wider interests that surround it. At the moment my work is almost exclusively on […]
Blogging, learning, and going off at tangents
I start off questioning the value of blogging an event that you know in advance will be blogged to death from every side. Does it really help anyone to have multiple perspectives on one thing, when the inevitable inconsistencies between them may be confusing? And if there are six accounts already, what added value is […]
Now appearing on Futurelab’s blog
Futurelab, the Brussels-based marketing and strategy innovation company (not to be confused with NESTA Futurelab in the UK), are now syndicating some of the articles from this blog on their site — see their announcement today. Futurelab’s blog assembles the best articles from a group of fifteen bloggers (so far; I am the most recent […]
Adelphi Charter on creativity, innovation and intellectual property
The Adelphi Charter was launched at the RSA yesterday evening. The RSA convened an international commission to draft the charter, and will now lobby governments to adopt its nine principles in practice as well as in principle. Unfortunately those principles are so far available only in PDF format (12 KB download). They’re bold and clear […]
Re-shaping The Guardian and the failed promise of personalisation
The Guardian newspaper is re-designing itself, turning to a format that is midway between tabloid and broadsheet, with a new typeface. Back in 01994, The Guardian produced a projection of how it thought it might look ten years later — as pictured on the left. Here’s a comparison between the projection and the reality, in […]
New section archives
I’ve gone through all the 279 entries on this site and classified them according to 14 new ‘secondary’ categories, which complement the primary categories included as tabs on each page (E-learning, Human-Computer Interaction, Music & Multimedia, Cultural Calendar). And I’ve changed the home page so that it links to these ‘Section Archives’ instead of the […]