Have blogs changed our idea of what constitutes a well-designed webpage? I was reading Wired’s interesting piece on guerrilla webpage redesign, where disgruntled folk take the content of a badly designed website and make their own mirror, throwing out the Javascript, cookies, confusing menus, bugs, excessive art-junk for a slimmed down, simplified imitation on their … Read more
Google has given Blogger a new look, courtesy of a company called Adaptive Path, “the industry’s leading user-experience consultancy”. It’s not bad, certainly an improvement on the old interface. But is it enough to win over all the folk who have migrated to places like Typepad, which offer many more features? In a news release … Read more
An interesting post from the ever thoughtful Tom Coates of PlasticBag points out that the key selling point of Kinja, the new blogging aggregator I took a brief look at a few days back, may be its ability to group blogs together and then allow other people to view the results easily, in real time. … Read more
I’ve taken a look at Kinja, the new blogging aggregator/digest site, and while it’s nicely put together, it’s clearly aimed at the novice. I also feel it’s a little exploitative. Users sign up — optionally giving away some personal information — and are then requested to insert some website addresses of blogs they want to … Read more
A few weeks back I wrote in my column of Wikipedia, the peer-produced online encyclopedia. Several readers and friends have asked whether it really stands up to scrutiny. How could something produced by a bunch of folk who may or may not have the qualifications, may or may not have an agenda, create something that’s … Read more