This only serves to confirm all my suspicions about Jakob Nielsen.
Archive for the 'Found on the web' Category
Interesting article on the Wall Street Journal about the increasing problem of the same stock photo being used by multiple companies in their advertising. I’ve experienced this before - a photo of a black woman answering the telephone (which, if I remember correctly, we paid a decent fee to a stock photo library for) which we put up on Freedom Telecom’s website, was subsequently used in some recruitment ads for adsales work in the Evening Standard and then I think in a major ad campaign, for somebody like T-Mobile.
A new blog I am writing for, Mark and Dan’s Web 2.0 for creative strategies.
4th November 2006
You are invited to take part in the largest demonstration of People Power that London has ever seen on Saturday 4th November 2006, by turning off all your lights, and switching off all your non-essential electrical equipment.
This article goes against everything I had previously heard about (Li-ion) rechargable batteries. Now I understand why the batteries in my laptops and mobile phones rarely seem to last more than a few months before they’re down to about 50% effectiveness. Note to self: recharge more!
It seems as if it’s been hard to move on the web this last week without stumbling on somebody (rightly) mouthing off about the latest issue of Newsweek, which has as its cover story “Losing Afghanistan” across the whole world, except in the USA where there is some fluff on Annie Liebowitz’s family with the headline “My Life in Pictures”.
There are implications in this so plain to see that it’s easy just to present the covers juxtaposed and say “look” and leave it at that. So it’s very refreshing to see that the excellent political/photography/photojournalism blog Bag News Notes has a much deeper look into the issues and implications including much on the fact that Liebowitz’s late partner, Susan Sontag, was perhaps the last century’s most widely respected theorizer on photography and renowned for her avoidance of the glare of publicity.
Interesting to hear that at the Liverpool Biennial there is an exhibition called Virtual Grizedale - since 1998, I’ve had the only Virtual Grizedale on the web!