Interesting Stuff 2008-08-22
Post categories: round up
| 11:37 UK time, Friday, 22 August 2008
Tristan of Apture ´óÏó´«Ã½ News' trial of in-text linking, mentioned on this blog yesterday and by Steve Herrmann:
You wouldn't want the contextual or background information to overwhelm the core story. But using, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ can facilitate the discovery of meaningful information...
Details of bbc.co.uk's for 2007/08 have been released after an FOI reguest .
We all love a nice graph, and there are some at about ´óÏó´«Ã½ iPlayer traffic during the Olympics.
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And a on the Backstage message board is discussing MusicBrainz data - as used in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Music beta.
Nick Reynolds is editor, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Internet Blog.
Comment number 1.
At 22nd Aug 2008, Paul wrote:Hi Nick,
Your second hyperlink "logged at...." in the second paragraph doesn't work.
Remove the # symbol and everything after it.
Just goes to show that if the ´óÏó´«Ã½ is going to have a lot more external links then they need to be accurate!! :-)
Cheers, Paul
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Comment number 2.
At 22nd Aug 2008, PicksyJ wrote:Of course, the assumption that using bog-standard links would overwhelm the core story appears to be unchallenged. I would still contend that after using them for 15 years+ people have got the hang of hyperlinks (as well as the 'back' button) now.
So if they want to read background info, they may jump off part-way through the story, then jump back.
The assumption also seems to be made that people must WANT to read all of the story: what if only part of it is relevant? They may well then want to jump off to a link focussing on that particular part.
Once you've finished trialling the Apture thing, why not trial "normal" links too?
(NB I do like the open dialogue, though: this is one thing, along with the ability to listen to negative feedback that I feel the ´óÏó´«Ã½ has improved on in the last few years.)
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Comment number 3.
At 22nd Aug 2008, PicksyJ wrote:Oh, NB, I'm the guy who wrote the 'bad, bad, bad linking Beeb' thing, in case you were wondering. That's my alter-ego, but unfortunately my first choice user name was unavailable when I signed up to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ thingy.
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Comment number 4.
At 26th Aug 2008, Peter Brown wrote:As a (relatively) "expert" IT/web user, I normally get interested/exctied when I see a new technology/function. This is exactly how I felt when I saw the Apture pilot on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ news website.
My initial impressions were:
1) it looked a bit "odd" for some reason; didn't fit in with the rest of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ site
2) it seemed to be fairly easy to use/understand
3) I was still interested in seeing it used more to decide whether I actually liked it or not.
So after the initial excitement and a few initial questions, I then started thinking about how a non-techie would feel about them. Overall there are some concerns I have about confusion over click versus rollover (I still see people clicking both mouse buttons because they can't remember which one does which), and a few issues over how this will actually be used in the future. And it needs to look less "proprietry".
So, overall, I'm stiill unsure and want to try it more, but am stilled piqued by it.
Lets continue to watch this space!
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Comment number 5.
At 13th Jun 2009, U14033173 wrote:Thank you for the post.
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