links for 2008-02-18
by Martin Belam, 18 February 2008
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"I see information architecture becoming about defining rules & boundaries, systems for information to live in. I'm less concerned with site maps, labeling, taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, and navigation hierarchies". Make rules, not structures.
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Luke is putting up excellent sets of notes from Webstock 2008, which seems to have some really good presentations. Terrible name for an event though.
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"Today, there is a lot of buzz around a number of topics labeled as 'Web 2.0'. Consultants jump on the 'Web 2.0' bandwagon and IT vendors desperately struggle to add 'Web 2.0' features to their products".
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"When Max Gogarty landed a coveted blogging spot to chronicle his backpacking adventure, he could have never predicted how his moment of triumph would backfire so spectacularly". Nor that an Observer sympathy piece would read like the Mail On Sunday.
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This time last year when I was at Sony, the buzz in the tech blogs was that the PS3 was tanking, and that Blu-Ray would fail because Sony's stance against pr0n being distributed on their hi-def format would hand HD-DVD the victory.
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"Another day, another innocent pleasure trembles on the edge of extinction: Polaroid is to stop producing the film for its instant cameras". Not sure that I've seen 'Polaroids' described as an 'innocent pleasure' before, nudge nudge, wink wink etc...
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"ARJ features the Microbe Forum: 'the roles of microbes in God's wonderful design has been neglected as many people associate microbes with the causes of death, disease & suffering.' I think these many people have a point: what the hell was god thinking?"
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"The biggest part of Greece has been blanketed with snow, while polar temperatures, heavy snowfalls and gale-force winds have caused serious problems to road, sea and air transport". I haven't been able to fly to London as planned today due to the snow.
So what's so terrible about the name Webstock?
Where to begin? A cheesy throwback to when everything was cool and groovy and then got over-rated by history, and already got re-done to death in the 90s summer of love. You might as well call it Isle of Web Festival, or Glastonwebbery ;-)