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On the day after the two emblematic retail groups Woolworths and MFI had gone under in the UK, their websites showed the signs of disaffected (and potentially jobless) web staff – and who can blame them.
At Woolies they couldn’t be asked, so the website simply reported that the site was “undergoing essential maintenance”, which [...]
With bingo bringing in high revenue streams for online newspaper editions, it is little wonder that the Daily Star chose to hit The Sun where it hurts with its bingo advertising campaign – but bombing The Sun’s Wapping HQ with Bingo balls?
I’m sure the Sun’s staff in Wapping will see the hilarity. After [...]
“One fewer person” or “one less person”? It’s one of those nagging questions you only come across rarely. I did, when I had to translate a line from Dutch for my previous article. It went: “Een cadeautje minder, een friend meer” or (literally) “one fewer/less present, one friend more”.
My head says “one fewer [...]
Dam Square in Amsterdam was covered with 15,000 single shoes on Monday (17 November) as part of a campaign run by the Dutch chapter of charity War Child.
War Child is a network of independent organisations, working across the world to help children affected by war. The Dutch campaign is running with the [...]
The rule that Internet veterans have sworn by for years, that a website should be designed so that a user finds their content within three clicks is not a valid principle, Hoa Loranger told the audience at the NNG usability workshop in Amsterdam.
The workshop was led by Jakob Nielsen, who has developed the most [...]
Chris Read, a 42-year-old from Kent, is facing legal action for libel after leaving negative feedback for an item he bought on auction site eBay. On October 3, Read used the feedback facility on eBay and wrote: “Item was scratched, chipped and not the model advertised on Mr Jones’s eBay account.” Mr Read subsequently [...]
Xiahe – an update on access for foreigners.
Following my article about the Tibetan towns of Xiahe and Tongren being closed to the outside world, I got the following update from Oswald, a Dutch traveller who managed to get through:
I read on your website you wanted to know if [...]
UFO? I took the following picture in the mid Atlantic, on Sao Miguel Island – above Sete Cidades Lake (16 Oct 08, 10.41am local time, ISO 100, 12Megapixels) . I didn’t actually see the object, and only noticed it when checking the pictures later.
Ever the cynic, I am inclined to think that it was [...]
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