Archive for October, 2008
Questionnaire Design
October 28th, 2008I have been developing a series of questionnaires for my PhD and it has proved to be more time consuming than I thought it would be.
I have to devise a different set of questions for each group to be targeted, students, staff, web managers, industry etc. This has been a complex process! I thought I […]
Nanny State?
October 17th, 2008Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has proposed legislation which would give the security services the power to amass a giant database of all emails and phone calls in the UK. Emotive topics like terrorism, murder, child abuse etc. have been bandied about to justify this initiative and while Smith defends the proposed action with the claim […]
Design Timeline
October 17th, 2008I had considered creating a flash timeline to illustrate some aspects of my research for my PhD but then I came across the ‘Open History Timeline’ which was created for ‘A Decade of Web Design’ international conference which took place in Amsterdam Jan 2005. The ‘webdesign timeline’ is still available online.
The open source software used […]
Wayback Machine
October 6th, 2008Internet Archive was founded in 1996 in an attempt to off-set the transient nature of the web by archiving information for posterity. This system covers a range of titles including web, moving image, text, audio and software. The wealth of free information within each of these headings provides a great source for researchers.
The Wayback Machine […]
