Tag: Internet
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.
Google Translate strips meta tags
Google Translate is pretty zealous with the head section of web pages when translating full URLs
Net neutrality: the Google-Verizon proposal versus freedom and choice
Notes on the recent Google-Verizon proposals for safeguarding net neutrality.
Typekit: when will web fonts flow freely?
Better CSS3 implementation in some browsers brings many more typographic choices. But we’re not quite there yet.
Minty fresh Linux
I decided to roll out a dual boot installation of Linux Mint on my own box. First signs are positive.
Accessibility may affect feasibility of Sharepoint intranet
Microsoft’s Office Sharepoint Server 2007 packs some cosmetic improvements to accessibility, but considerable development will be needed to resolve out-of-the-box problems.
(Mis)information society
What’s the real truth and does it matter? Doctoring Wikipedia articles and scamming the gullible is all the rage these days.
Accessibility row over Better Connected 2007
A “pass or fail” culture dominates the latest quantitative study on public sector web accessibility.
Out of touch
When it comes to the Internet, crime does pay. Shame so few of our public sector institutions understand it.
Enough already!
When Jade Goody goes off-message, isn’t it time to think about the price of celebrity?
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Babel
Exciting director’s brave attempt to take on the theme of globalisation.
- Originally published: 29 Jan 2007 in Film
Easter in Munich
Art, design, beer gardens and a food market. Just a few reasons to love Munich.
- Originally published: 12 Apr 2007 in Europe
Barcelona
The Barcelona of my expectations turned out to be a bit different to the Barcelona in reality.
- Originally published: 14 Jul 2009 in Europe
Malèna
Tornatore’s poetic, hormonal paean to the youthful worship of a fallen goddess.
- Originally published: 29 May 2007 in Film
Bière de Miel
3/5. Light, refreshing and floral. A beer full of the joys of spring.
- Originally published: 20 Nov 2011 in Beer
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.