links for 2010-03-03

"The conundrum always starts the same way: those who budget a project’s time, materials, etc. believe that incorporating user research into the design process could potentially add to the project’s overall scope. These stakeholders, project managers, whathaveyou are concerned with making things work for themselves or their superiors within a specific time frame". Features an awesome cartoon.

"I’m working like mad through March to write a book on information architecture. As I go, I find I need two things – stories to illustrate points I describe, and examples of sites that do particular things. This post will be a continually-updated one that lists what I’m interested in and what I have enough of."

"Radio 6, in particular, does nothing that is not or should not be done by Radios 1 and 2. 'Encouraging new music', for example, which its fans claim to be a unique property of the threatened station, is precisely the justification trotted out whenever someone wonders what a taxpayer-funded organisation is doing putting out wall-to-wall broadcasts of commercial pop music."

“Once again weakness by the regulator has led to people calling for tougher sanctions against journalism,” Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger argued at today’s press self-regulation debate in the House of Lords.

"The main thing that I took away is how much good work the BBC is doing in this space. Given the recent news of cuts at the BBC, it seems like a good time to say publicly how important some of the work they are doing is to the web technology sector."

"To say that the new crossword website when it was launched in mid-February was not universally popular would be something of an understatement. I have seldom read such an outpouring of vituperative abuse, coupled with more plaintive cries of 'give us back our old site!'"

We are very possibly the only newspaper in the world to cram a Doctor Who reference and a picture of an otter into an error page, thanks to @revdancatt amongst others