Monthly Archives: February 2009

Microsites: are we shooting ourselves in the foot?

February 17, 2009 – 5:11 pm

An interesting discussion with a client this week who is a leading publisher in the field of STM, SOCS and HUMS.
We have been working very productively with this client for some time now. They have a number of highly-regarded, online reference and journal products available to the academic community, delivered on Semantico’s Information Publishing Platform, [...]

By Gareth Bish | Posted in Online Publishing Market, Publishing business models | Post a comment | 0 comments

Spot the deliberate mistakes …

February 6, 2009 – 9:55 am

Hurray! The 2009 edition of NetLife Research’s legendary Bad Usability Calendar is here.

Each year, the team uses the calendar to illustrate ’stoopid’ interface choices, from distracting mashups to meaningless metaphors.
Great for cubicle walls.

By Louise Hewitt | Posted in Information Architecture | Post a comment | 0 comments

Some thoughts on the Carter Report

February 2, 2009 – 4:56 pm

Last month saw the publication of the interim Digital Britain report from UK Minister for Communications Stephen Carter and his team. Most of the headlines have focused on the ‘2MB for all by 2012′ promise, but the report raises other issues for digital publishing.
National high-speed broadband access is likely to be a reality if not [...]

By Louise Hewitt | Posted in E-books, Online Publishing Market, Publishing business models | Post a comment | 0 comments

E-learning: across the great divide

February 2, 2009 – 4:46 pm

A discussion the Semantico team had recently with David Worlock of Outsell highlighted areas of convergence between online publishing and e-learning, two worlds that have previously seemed oddly sealed off from each other. I go regularly to the Learning Technologies exhibition in January, where the great and the good of UK e-learning gather, and also [...]

By John Helmer | Posted in Online Publishing Market, e-learning | Post a comment | 3 comments

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