Technology
Leave the Internet alone
The day after some websites went dark in protest at proposed US laws on online intellectual property rights, the authorities shut down a file sharing service.
- Originally published: 20 Jan 2012 in Editorial, Technology
Dopeology
At last! My personal project to develop a web application on doping in pro cycling is finally released after a year’s hard work.
- Originally published: 12 Oct 2011 in Information design
Google Translate strips meta tags
Google Translate is pretty zealous with the head section of web pages when translating full URLs
- Originally published: 25 Aug 2011 in Technical
Highcharts and HTML5: IE’s innerHTML unknown runtime error
Internet Explorer’s hoary old unknown runtime error comes back to haunt me in HTML5
- Originally published: 22 Jul 2011 in Technical
Information architecture: labelling for websites
Labelling content for websites is not as easy as it looks. Every label should be the product of a process.
- Originally published: 19 Oct 2010 in Information design
Can Google Mini help you find intranet content easily? Search me…
Problems aplenty getting to grips with the search facilities provided by Google’s Mini appliance.
- Originally published: 13 Oct 2010 in Technical
Is there anybody out there?
Getting to know the website audience of a content-driven, public sector information resource.
- Originally published: 19 Sep 2010 in Information design
Net neutrality: the Google-Verizon proposal versus freedom and choice
Notes on the recent Google-Verizon proposals for safeguarding net neutrality.
- Originally published: 11 Aug 2010 in Technology
Simply monstrous: web support at Monster
Online recruitment site Monster could use a lesson in technical support when answering bug reports.
- Originally published: 6 Aug 2010 in Technology
Creating routes for a Garmin eTrex H
How to create GPS routes and how to transfer them to the Garmin eTrex H.
- Originally published: 12 Jul 2010 in Technology, Walking
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Christmas 2009: a visit to the UK
Spending Christmas back in the UK with family.
- Originally published: 31 Dec 2009 in Personalia
Val de Loire
Not for nothing is the Val de Loire called the ‘Garden of France’. Blooming flowers, lush pastures, rich vineyards and lazy old rivers.
- Originally published: 28 Apr 2011 in Europe
Lower Lesse
Before reaching the Meuse, the Lesse river flows through a long, deep and green valley bordered by limestone cliffs.
- Originally published: 13 Jun 2010 in Walking
A certain thirtysomething
It feels no different to any other year now I’m turning thirty. Yet.
- Originally published: 29 Jun 2009 in Personalia
Green credentials
Governments, global corporations and green issues: reflections on an environmental protest in Brussels.
- Originally published: 13 Jul 2010 in Editorial
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.