Many community organisations have monstrous problems getting a web site at all, let alone one that meets their needs. Any web site running on volunteers has a bundle of problems, starting with a chronic lack of time and money. Yet...
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Judging 11 books by their covers
I'm off on a week's holiday, so don't expect a blog entry next week. Instead let's consider the proposition that we do judge a book by its cover -- whether we should or not. After all, that's exactly what people...
Statistics: give them raw or fully processed
My sister sent me her email newsletter for comments -- always a dangerous move! It included two paragraphs of semi-digested statistics. Here's one. * What's important to members. The most frequently used areas of the site (in descending order): members,...
Spare the fairies
The Girls' Book of Flower Fairies. Cicely Mary Barker. Copyright Frederick Warne. Publisher: Penguin. Figure that out. I was instantly infatuated with Cicely Mary Barker's illustrations of the flower fairies — all 120 of them, from the Acorn Fairy to...
How is the internet changing literary style?
How is the Internet changing literary style? asks Caleb Crain on Steamboats are ruining everything. It's a leisurely, literary, philosophical talk transcribed. So why would I ruin everything by paraphrasing? I'll just quote a bit. Crain writes a lot for...