I’m taking a Vow of Blogging Silence.
Monthly Archives: May 2007
the new UNIVERSAL Google search
The interface design changes that go along with Google’s new ‘Universal Search Model’ – maybe it means Google wants to make more of the decisions for the user, maybe they feel the blended search result types makes specific search types less important – which it probably does.
Google’s New Navigational Links: An Illustrated Guide
… Those vertical search links have been directly above the Google search box for years. Over the coming days, they will now jump to the top left-hand side of the page.
In addition to linking to Web, Images, Video, News and Maps search, there’s also a new Gmail link.
Some interesting reads on the ‘new’ Google : Continue reading
kiss online radio goodbye, courtesy the Royalty Rates Crisis
Pandora, that piece of Internet magic that you can could ‘train’ to feed you new music is allready no-longer available in South Africa. They’ve also had to cut their streaming to Canada. I see you can still log into Pandora Backstage to browse and research artists and albums, but… it is terribly mute.
Dunno if you noticed the comment by Tim Westergren – the founder of Pandora – on my previous post on this topic. (Sadest ego boost I’ve experienced in a long time). It’s hectic.
…just a nation of copycats?
Are we just a nation of copy.cats?
I don’t know about that. I do suspect that a lot of us ‘idea people’ easily become so enamored with our own precious ideas that we forget that ideas on their own, no matter how original or brilliant are utterly worthless.
More pictures of Bronwyn’s installation
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Bronwyn Lace is doing a show down in Durban and came to fetch some of the pictures I took of her installation at Parking Gallery last year. Thought I’d pop one or two up again, that was such a stunning piece.
So you decide to stop blogging
Only, you realize how nice a swan song blog post there is in that.
Happy Mothers-day
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Happy Motherrs-day! from Béo.
‘there are no rules out there in the blogosphere’
Sunday Times – Columnists – David Bullard
…there are no rules out there in the blogosphere…
On the contrary, me thinks there are a great many rules – but they, or at least some of them, are subtle, fuzzy, relatively tiny and change a lot of the time.
