Easyjet have recently changed their website. Now you get a language selection screen. So far so good I guess (for a website).
But unfortunately instead of just the names of languages, there are flags as well.
The flags on this page may look colourful, but having them there is WRONG.
I’m not being pedantic here. It is simply [...]
Yes, we spell it “localisation” round ‘ere. *
Quick addendum to the previous post about the difference between this blog and a fully bilingual website…
It’s amazing how many people get localisation and language wrong. Even Amazon and so on.
If I were creating a truly bilingual website then I would translate every single post, page, category and [...]
Look I’m not an expert on advertising or anything. But I am an expert in being ADVERTISED AT. It’s become a truism that there’s a constant stream of shouty advertising messages interrupting your every thought, etc. At this point I could repeat that and lament how advertising bombards us all in the face. But I’m [...]
Like you, I’m a sucker for those books which identify an emerging area of economics or sociology and boil it down to some zeitgeisty theory.
Most of us would like to say we can pinpoint the exact trends affecting society, business and bookshelves alike for the next three to six years. Somewhere within my own bookmarks, [...]
Happy new half-year!
Back in January I made a resolution to leave my inbox empty every night. I have partially succeeded. It’s forcing me to make those little decisions. It’s a lot more manageable. Hooray!
At times I’ve let it slip. But there’s no use feeling any guilt over it. Guilt won’t motivate me, it won’t fix [...]
If you’re interested in online privacy issues, you may have read about Phorm, the company that gets your web usage data from ISPs in order to show you contextual advertising.
Recently I’ve been contributing to a blog called Future Music Lab along with some colleagues from the music, media and online industries. One of my posts [...]
Have you tried Spotify yet?
Tucked away in today’s post on Spotify’s own blog is a file listing newly included recordings by some of my favourite labels and artists.
Labels represented on the list today include: Rough Trade, Poker Flat, XL, Rhino/Elektra, ECM, Universal, Pressure Sounds and more…
Artists on the list from today include: Stereolab, Antony & [...]
Quick intro to my working situation.
Native is a business that helps you with online media, based in Cardiff, Wales. It’s a two-headed partnership, of which the heads are me and Tom Beardshaw.
At the moment we are meeting loads of people for coffee: old friends, new friends, clients, potential clients, people who create stuff, suppliers, “competitors”…
Never [...]
I’m setting myself a few New Year’s Resolutions for 2009.
They’ll also be New Years’ Resolutions. Note the apostrophe placement because some of these things are just too good for only one year.
One of them relates to email.
Email is a blessing and a curse for me. Recently – OK, for the last few years actually – [...]
After the Bush/Shoe incident, anyone who’d spent even a few moments in eccentric corners of web knew there would be a creative response online. And it came. Wired has a summary of the shoe-inspired games and animations.
So Sock And Awe wasn’t the only Flash game based on the Bush/Shoe event. But it was the best.
Now [...]
My name's Carl Morris and this is my blog. It's about language, music, art, business and other stuff I care about.
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