Digital Strategy in 2011

The start of a new year heralds a series of articles about predictions for digital trends 1, 2, 3 for the year ahead, but instead I thought I would summarise where I believe we are after the year gone by. It’s all too easy to start by thinking by platform. For example the last 5 [...]

Font of No Knowledge

Interesting studies in the media at the moment are at odds with the traditional User Experience discipline of ensuring your font choice is a nice expected clear commonly used font. This from Seed Magazine: Last week, science writer and editor Christian Jarrett blogged about a new study, published this month in Cognition. The researchers, led by Connor Diemand-Yauman, [...]

Quora & SEO

3,000,000+ pages and already a Page Rank of 5 and Quora has been around for less than a fortnight… It will be really interesting to see how much prominence Google affords cached Quora pages in their algorithm. Is this the Wikipedia of the ignorant?! Maybe this is the Ask Jeeves model that never worked. It seems to [...]

RIP Mick Karn

It was awful news to hear yesterday that former Japan bassist Mick Karn had died. He was 52 and had been suffering with cancer. Micka Karn’s bass playing was a big influence on me as I grew up through my teens in the 80′s. Some would say Japan were the best band to come out [...]

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