Archive for November, 2008

LBi confirms redundancies in design and build departments LBi is the UK's largest digital marketing agency and a competitor of ours. It's just laid off 17 of its 420-strong workforce – the layoffs affected the design and build disciplines. Ewen Sturgeon, the CEO, seems to indicate that the redundancies are pre-emptive and not reactive (tags: [...]

Online Shopping to Plateau As Slump Hits Cyberspace – WSJ.com Christoper Lawton of the Wall Street Journal on expected performance of online retail in the 2008 peak season. In recent years retailers have seen double-digit year-on-year revenue growth. Until recently there had been a hope that growth would be only slightly diminished by the economic [...]

Interview with Brian Oakes Brian Oakes was the graphic designer behind the infographics on IOUSA, a film that achieves the near-impossible in explaining the US national debt and problem it poses. This is an interview with him (tags: infographics economics visualisation)

Will the Real Information Architect Please Stand Up? – SlideShare An engaging and entertaining presentation by Gail Leija that explores who information architects are as well as what it is that they actually do. (tags: ia presentation)

The LHC and the Bizarre Behaviour of the BBC | The Lay Scientist Details leak out about the story behind the BBC's strange focus on "Red Button Day", September 10th, and how its odd coverage of the LHC's "turn-on" resulted from a generalised incomprehension of the subject matter. Of "particular" (ho-ho) interest to physicists (tags: [...]

50 websites you'll wonder how you lived without | News | TechRadar UK A fairly huge list of websites and web utilities, a lot of which do look genuinely useful. From browser-based equivalents of Excel and Visio to project management and online file backup services. (tags: websites utilities tools)

Make a Local Backup Of Your Gmail Account Are you a heavy user of Gmail? It's handy to have so much information in one place isn't it? Phone numbers, addresses, logins for various websites, and so on, and all nicely searchable too. But what if your account got disabled? It happens, and it happened to [...]

Fleshmap: Studies of Desire A somewhat racy exercise in visualisation, using heatmaps and other techniques to display statistical information about erogenous zones, common nipple patterns and the occurrence of body parts in song titles, by genre. The hand is most mentioned in blues songs, apparently, while hip-hop artists are obsessed with the behind. (tags: sex [...]