Cory Doctorow, “Metacrap : Putting the torch to seven straw men of the meta-utopia”
“A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be a utopia. It’s also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities.”
(tags: internet web search seo)
links for 2007-06-13
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links for 2007-06-06
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The 12 Archetypes
Jungian archetypes & brands - (via Steve Jay)
(tags: planning psych segmentation personas)
links for 2007-05-29
May 29th, 2007 by Mat Morrison · 1 Comment
Christine Zmoelnig’s “aesthetic and economic analysis of Macromedia’s Flash technology”
is probably out-of date (it’s a re-published MA dissertation from 1999/2000), but does an excellent job of summarizing the debate as it stood then. I’d say that - while Flash has advanced significantly to address the challeges it faced back then - the mar
(tags: flash design [...]
Some draft ideas for a column (re-post)
May 25th, 2007 by Mat Morrison · 1 Comment
(Nathan has just linked to this story on my other blog. I wrote it last October, but wasn’t convinced that the tone would be right for this blog. Now popular acclaim (or, rather, Nathan) has persuaded me to open this up to the other two readers of this blog.
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I’m supposed to be working up [...]
“When it changed” - or just an artefact?
May 21st, 2007 by Mat Morrison · 1 Comment
See that sudden leap in reach around April 2006. Was that when web 2.0 happened? Or does it reflect a change in Alexa’s processes? I’m not a massive user of Alexa’s stats (for a variety of reasons), so it’s only now that I’ve noticed.
Others beat me to it, asking “Did the world get geekier [...]