The Village Voice reports that the viability of an open source electronic voting system is threatened “the State Board of Elections’ $2 million testing fee.” But Darlene Mealy, a Brooklyn City Council Member, is asking that the fee be waived. She is also pushing for a requirement that the voting equipment be based on accessible software: Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Search Engine Marketing Wiki Launched
Kalena Jordan has launched a wiki (beta) dedicated to search engines. There’s info about conferences, terms, personalities, blogs, and, of course, the search engines themselves (organized by country – amazing). (tip)
The site is beta, so here are some design suggestions for Kalena:
- Ditch the ALL CAPS page titles. If the title is being drawn automatically from the H1, and you’re married to the idea of ALL CAPS THERE (note: they’re harder to read than mixed case), then change your stylesheet.
- The definitions are a useful resource — but the list (all lists, not just these) should be set off with bullets or numbers for ease of readability.
- The naming convention / information architecture is confusing: ArticlesELearning, CategoryBooks, SearchEnginesBotswana. If I am “on” the search engines category page, the link should simply be “Botswana.”
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2 Billion Pictures …
… now on Flickr, posted Tuesday. “It was taken in front of Market City in Chinatown Haymarket in Sydney.” (All Rights Reserved, tip)
In the last six months, the number of photos on Flickr has quadrupled:
2 000 000 000 – 13 Nov 2007
1 000 000 000 – Private
500 000 000 – 15 May 2007
100 000 000 – 15 Feb 2006
10 000 000 - 19 Apr 2005
1 000 000 – 22 Oct 2004
These other milestone images are more mundane shots, in case anyone is thinking “human intervention” given the quality of the 2 billionth image. (tip)
Flickr: launched in 2004; acquired by Yahoo! in March 2005 (was it really that long ago?).
Controlled Vocabulary Matters
I just spent 15 minutes cursing my Brother printer and Brother, the company. Later, I spent a few more cursing Apple.
My Brother HL-2070N stopped working from the laptop. Then, a few weeks later (today), it stopped printing from the Mini. It would start printing, then “hang.” No error message. See the screen capture.
I searched the web and found nothing helpful.
I went to brother.com help and found a troubleshooting page for Windows that echoed my problem. The first line: “It’s possible that the IP address of your Brother machine has changed.” Continue reading
JCMC: Issue On Social Networks
Announcing a special theme issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication; Volume 13, Issue 1, October 2007 is devoted to Social Network Sites. Guest Editors: danah boyd and Nicole Ellison. Continue reading
