links for 2011-04-08

Fascinating bit of London history told well - love the "time travel" maps. Although, as it involves "time travel", I'm bound to...

Call me old-fashioned, but I kind of thought the idea that you measured what happened on your website with web analytics and made decisions accordingly was pretty established practice in 1996. It does genuinely worry me that this piece appeared on a website that I love for the way it champions news innovation. An analytics dashboard isn't innovation, it is "Webmaster 101"

Excellent take-down from Matthew Ingram of an ill-conceived piece by Jeff Bercovici...

...which goes a little way to redressing the upset I had when he wrote this a couple of days earlier. I think it is really quite unfair to extrapolate one social media policy and then assume an entire industry behaves that way. If he had read The Guardian's social media guidelines for journalists instead, would he have extrapolated that to "Wow, newspapers know their social stuff!"

Lee McIvor's thoughts on having hosted a second Lightning UX event this week. I couldn't get to it as I was in the middle of switching from IA Summit to IA Summit, but I do hope there is a Lightning UX 3

Matthew Solle has written up his thoughts after our panel session in Denver for the IA Summit

A really lovely post from @kythryn about feeling welcome at our London IA events