January 2010
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EUROIA 2009 - Day 1, Copenhagen - Part 2
Stanislaw Skorka - Users do not like any changes Director of Main Library at Pedagogical University of Cracow Talking about task analysis - What their goals are and what they actually do to achieve these goals. How their previous knowledge helps them achieve this. Book to read: Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior (Library and Information...
Jan 26th
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EUROIA 2009 - Day 1, Copenhagen - Part 1
Scott Thomas (Simple Scott) - The Power of Design I really enjoyed Scott’s session, purely because it focused on the real world experience, in an area that not many of us have experience in. Some salient points about getting things done. Designing Obama from mas / menos on Vimeo. Obama Online Experience Apparently furry pink unicorns were the key to the online Obama experience ...
Jan 26th
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A day in the life of... Marco Pierre White →
Marco Pierre White joined my list of food heroes, after his intense and in moments, downright scary performance in Marco’s Great British Feast. This article reveals some more oddities about the man himself.
Jan 24th
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My Chocolate Week Surprise
As part of Chocolate Week celebrations, which runs from 12th to the 18th October, Kellogg’s were kind enough to send me a little surprise after I responded to a thread on UK Food Bloggers Association. I know I’m probably crossing some moral threshold by giving them publicity but I like getting free yummy treats. I thought I was just going to get a few packets of Kellogg’s Rice...
Jan 20th
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Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen DK
I had great plans for my final day in Denmark after EUROIA but in the end, I only managed a nice meal and a quick scoot around the Statens Museum for Kunst (or the National Gallery of Denmark). We’d managed to miss it last time round and I was gutted! The entrance itself is quite imposing, with Chris Burden’s Flying Steamroller right out the front. It really doesn’t give away...
Jan 18th
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WatchWatch
This is the video I took during the Tate Modern Oil Tanks tour. I’ve stitched all the shots together so you can get a rough idea of what it was like. I’ve got some photos too, which will be uploaded soon! Photos from Brad | Photos from Me
Jan 9th