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Egalitarianism vs Elitism

January 30th, 2009

Encyclopedia Britannica has announced an initiative which will permit readers to be involved in updating its content. Jorge Cauz president of Encyclopedia Britannica stated that
“we believe that the creation and documentation of knowledge is a collaborative process but not a democratic one” [1]
The content, added by regular users, to the site will not feature the […]

PrettyLoaded

January 19th, 2009

Pretty Loaded is an initiative undertaken by Big Spaceship to archive preloaders on the rapidly evolving web. In this world of here today gone tomorrow web design, this is a very commendable attempt to record a wealth of digital information that would otherwise be lost.
I would also recommend a visit to Big Spaceship’s website and […]

Design Timeline

October 17th, 2008

I 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, 2008

Internet 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 […]

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