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October 8th, 2007

Writing offline, link lack incident

I’ve been doing slightly more writing for paper publications than would normally be the case over the last few weeks. I’m out of practice, and not just with the idea of hitting a word count. I found it most irritating to have to explain things within the text rather than just hyperlinking to more information for those who needed to catch up.

In the case of an events preview article I wrote I resorted to URLs after the band names or event details, in other cases there was a preponderance of brackets and sub-clauses.

I’m sure that it wasn’t ever thus, I’m sure I found a level easy way to pitch level and work out what to expand upon. I’m also sure that went I read things I didn’t know about in a book or magazine I researched for further info – I’m not sure I do that anymore.

by Jon Bounds | Posted in good practice, my projects | Tags: ,
May 31st, 2007

Cool, Fab, gear?

Can’t help thinking that the interweb has got it a bit wrong on google gears (the offline/online storage tool, that will for example download all you feeds in Google Reader to read when offline) – they all love it. But most of the praise in the blogs, Ben Metcalfe etc., has come from people who think it will be so useful when they’re “on a plane to speak at a conference”.

To be honest, how often do you have a computer, time to use it, and no web? I have computer at work, one at home, I have a laptop – but I don’t use it while travelling (you try on the bus, or while driving).

It’s clever, but a niche product that is being hyped far too much. Of course, someone could always come up with something better to use it for.

by Jon Bounds | Posted in future web | Tags: ,













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