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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Ho hum. The BBC have delivered a new web site and it sits in the middle instead of ranged left.
I think this looks really good. It really is just plain simple and the layout is not too busy. The best feature has to be the customisation. It is possible to change the colour scheme and choose alternative categories for the site.
One important change; this is set up as fixed width - fitting into a 1024 pixel wide display. Most sites I work on are still kind to users with 800 pixel widths.
You can find the BBC web site here.
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Posted on 09 Apr 2008 around 6pm •
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Sunday, February 03, 2008
Internet links to the middle east and beyond are broken because of 2 broken undersea cables.
We don't tend to think about it that often but our connections around the world are actually reliant on cables laid on the ocean floor. It turns out that 2 cables running side by side have been severed by a ship's anchor off the coast Egypt.
There are conflicting reports about the cause but what seems strange to me is that the cables are near enough to one another to have sustained the same damage.
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Posted on 03 Feb 2008 around 9pm •
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
I heard more about this on David Pogue's Podcast.
David Pogue, who now says that he will stop his podcast for a while elaborated on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC).
Earlier on Pogue reviewed the laptop and you can see this on YouTube. Take look ...
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Posted on 17 Oct 2007 around 12pm •
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Monday, July 30, 2007
Aaron Swartz has announced a demo of the Open Library Project. I really admire this idea and wish him and the team the very best of luck with it. The technology looks really good and the team includes designer Rebecca Malamud who's work I have admired before at MappaMundi.net
Visit the Open Library site
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Saturday, June 23, 2007
A small library in Leonardo Da Vinci’s hometown uploads a large portion of the Renaissance man’s notes into a searchable digital archive, free for all the world to pick through.
Sourced at Wired News
