About me
I'm a digital strategist and user experience professional who's been working with the web for over twelve years. On this blog you'll mainly find links, opinions and the occasional piece of original research. Click here to read more about me.
Shared links- Twitter powered subtitles for BBC iPlayer
Experimental project embeds Twitter posts as subtitles within BBC iPlayer - Internet 2009 in numbers | Royal Pingdom
Lots of figures about the internet in 2009, with sources cited for each statistic. High-level stuff but handy anyway - The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures « OkTrends
OKCupid analyse over 7,000 dating profile pictures to see what works and what doesn't, exploring gender differences and the enduring effectiveness of the "Myspace pose"
- Twitter powered subtitles for BBC iPlayer
Now Reading
Planned books:
- The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Picador Books) by Hunter S. Thompson
- A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander
- Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability (Interactive Technologies) by Caroline Jarrett, Gerry Gaffney
- The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre
Current books:
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Recent books:
- Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means for Business and Everyday L by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
- Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Responsive Environments: Architecture, Art and Design by Lucy Bullivant
- T Zero (Harbrace Paperbound Library) by Italo Calvino
My latest tweets
- The city as interface (part two) http://bit.ly/9fwSfbabout 2 weeks ago
- What UX can learn from product strategy, and vice versa http://bit.ly/cr4u85about 3 weeks ago
- Encountering the future over an omelette http://bit.ly/aPS4Vjabout 4 weeks ago
Murdoch’s paid-content move
Aug 7th
Posted by brelson in media
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I’m hoping that News International will end up looking back on their move to paid content as a serious blunder. Not because I’m irked at the idea of paying for the Sun or the Times (I don’t read either) or even because I’m a particularly ardent defender of free content. I just dislike News International [...]