Citizensheep.com is the blog of me, Michael Grimes.
Sheep Dip is where I dip my hooves into the murky waters of the internet and pluck out an interesting, useful or just plain whacky titbit for your delectation.
8 March, 2010
This is really interesting, because I always assumed that online registration forms were easier to use if their components were separated clearly.
This post suggests that in fact a narrative paragraph containing the form fields in-line is more likely to encourage use.
Thanks to Martin Black for drawing my attention to this on Twitter.
1 March, 2010
A very good piece by David Schneiderman on the effect of the internet on journalism. I particularly like his 'Final Perspective', which I think applies to organisations acroos sectors:
"Many of the fundamental, underlying principles of effective public relations remain unchanged by this emerging world without newspapers.
"But make no mistake, the revolution is indeed here.
"And that fact makes it all the more imperative that every institution affected by this revolution not miss the boat in adapting its communications capabilities to this new reality."
2 December, 2009
Bruce Lawson posted this tweet:
Another bloody list of sexy 404 error pages http://bit.ly/8I4D3d that doesn’t include my custom 404 page from 2004 http://bit.ly/8D5oJe
I say ‘favourite’ to make Bruce feel better, but it’s probably true anyway.
1 November, 2009
I'm trying to get my head around Ruby (and Rails, and HAML) and this is proving a good start. Obviously you need Ruby installed first (which wasn't all that straightforward, not in Windows at any rate), but once you've done that it's quite enjoyable.
22 October, 2009
Jon Bounds just tweeted this, which is just stunning:
“GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool which shows about 11,000 tweets collected over a 24 hour period between August 20th and 21st. The tweets were harvested to find people saying ‘good morning’ in English as well as several other languages.”
GoodMorning! Full Render #2 from blprnt on Vimeo.
1 October, 2009
Citizenship Foundation CEO Tony Breslin talks to Futurelab's Cassie Hague about the role of citizenship education, technology, and the need to look for greater opportunities to encourage young people to become active citizens.
30 September, 2009
A set of very handy lists of online web development tools, neatly and clearly laid out. Covers inspiration and design as well as markup, coding and marketing.
17 August, 2009
I’ve been lookikng for a good audio sharing service for a while, and stumbled across Audiofarm. You can choose to grant your files ‘preview only’ playback or Creative Commons licencing. It would be great if the site also offered some annotation features and codes for embedding into web pages as well as the sharing options it currently offers, but it’s still pretty neat: I’m impressed so far.
11 August, 2009
Obviously I haven’t deliberately included a link to a 500 Internal Server Error: even I’m not that random.
There is something very strange going on here. Something – and I suspect it’s related to the Postalicious plugin – automatically posted this post to my blog. I have since added this text (clearly) because a) it means that anyone arriving via RSS has something to look at, and b) because it amused me to do so. Oh, and thanks to Midge for alerting me to it.
3 August, 2009
Tom Watson MP explains why the Tories really shouldn’t privatise BBC Radio One.
“Radio One provides unique high quality content to a young audience. It engages them in important social action campaigns and provides a first class news service, second to none on any other BBC network. That’s before you begin to look at its broad repertoire of underground and new music. The commercial sector cannot begin to emulate it.”
Visit Radio 1 – More than a music station. Don’t privatise it.
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