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Thursday 11 March 2010
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guardian.co.uk
Today, we've launched a new UK page.
Like both our politics front and United States front we hope
this layout will provide a clear and intuitive means to track all the latest and most important coverage. The aim is to surface breaking news as it happens in the far-left column, while presenting the main stories of the day in the front and centre of the page.
These new features have already been introduced on a few of our other pages. In the Latest column, which appears to the left-hand side, each story has a link above the headline to the relevant keyword page. It will take you to all our online coverage of the subject, showing the publication date and number of comments. At a glance readers can see what the article is about, when it happened and how much conversation it's generating.
The weather for cities across the UK still appears down the right-hand column of the page, and we have also retained familiar navigation links to guide you to other areas of UK coverage.
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Wednesday 10 March 2010
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guardian.co.uk
Today, we've launched a new United States page.
Like our politics front, as I explained, we hope
this layout will provide a clear and intuitive means to track all the latest and most important coverage. The aim is to surface breaking news as it happens in the far-left column, while presenting the main stories of the day in the front and centre of the page.
Some of the new features are similar to the ones on our politics page. Each story under Latest is prefaced with a link to its main keyword page. This link will take you to all coverage of that topic, showing when it was published and how many comments it has garnered, so you'll know at a glance what it's about, when it happened and how big a conversation it's generating.
You'll still find the weather for cities across the US down the right-hand column. We've also retained all the familiar navigation links to help you find your favourite United States coverage.
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Tuesday 9 March 2010
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Following the success of Leeds, our new experiment in local journalism and community coverage has arrived in Cardiff
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Tuesday 2 March 2010
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guardian.co.uk
Welcome to guardian.co.uk's new politics front page. This is the first of several fast-moving news areas that we will shortly be presenting in this format.
As politics builds to fever pitch towards the general election, we hope this layout will provide a clear and intuitive means to track all the latest and most important coverage. The aim is to surface breaking news as it happens in the far-left column, while presenting the main stories of the day in the front and centre of the page.
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Sunday 21 February 2010
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Welcome to the new Observer, published from today in four sections – News, Sport, New Review and Observer Magazine
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Wednesday 17 February 2010
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Our new experiment in local journalism and community coverage has launched. Emily Bell explains what the people of Leeds, Edinburgh and Cardiff can expect
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Monday 15 February 2010
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A screengrab of the new guardian.co.uk Crosswords front.
I was never inducted into the world of the cryptic crossword. My wife's family were, and when I am with them, there are often perplexing interludes when the family does the crossword together. My father-in-law reads out clues, and the rest of them weigh in with potential answers. To my ears it is just an impenetrable jumble of non-sequiturs. He says something like "Grieve over old bird in mountainous surroundings", and I find myself shouting out random phrases like "sad sparrow", "Baird Mountains", "Henry Plantagenet", "wardrobe?" to try and join in.
So I was rather nervous when approaching the information architecture of the newly re-designed crosswords section of the guardian.co.uk site. I struggle to imagine a more learned and devoted online community than the one that follows our crossword puzzles.
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Friday 12 February 2010
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When The Guardian first made crosswords available interactively on its website, it led the way. Noll Scott, with some assistance from Nic Ford, not only created something ahead of its time, but also set the agenda for accessibility with a version suitable for the blind and partially-sighted.
However, it was back in 1999 that crosswords first appeared on guardian.co.uk and more than a decade on they're distinctly showing their age. In the days when Netscape Navigator 4.5 was one of the most popular web browsers and Internet Explorer 5 had been recently released, using a Java applet was the most effective choice for making an interactive crossword that everyone could use. Browsers have improved sufficiently since that there's now no need to resort to plugins, reducing the barrier for new users and allowing screen readers and mobile browsers to attempt to interpret the crossword.
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Wednesday 3 February 2010
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Zeitgeist screenshot
We've just launched an exciting new project which, as you can see from the screenshot above, looks (and behaves) a bit differently from most other things on the Guardian site.
Zeitgeist is a visual record of what people are currently finding interesting on guardian.co.uk at the moment. While other bits of the site are curated by editors (like the front page, or individual sections) or metadata (like blogs, which display in reverse-chronological order), Zeitgeist is dynamic, powered by the attention of users, which is why we've put this into the Community section.
The combination of content objects changes throughout the day, sometimes by the minute, as activity shifts around the site, stories get linked to or talked about, new stories are published and become widely-read and so on. You can also explore what was attracting attention on a given day in history (2010 only, for the time being) via the "previous" and "next" navigation links.
As well as being a different way to display and explore content, it's also a bit of an experiment. It's not finished yet, and indeed may never be totally finished, but will continue to evolve and change over coming days, weeks, months ... and beyond. What you see today is functional, but be warned: it may break now and then, or look odd in various browsers as we continue to tweak and modify the code and design. We wanted to get it out there and live so you can see a bit of what we're up to and offer advice, feedback and comments (constructive please).
To make it easy to see what's hot at a glance, we've colour-coded each content block in line with the section it belongs to on the site (these are the same colours used in the navigation bar at the top of each page). A side-effect of using section colours is that you can see sections ebb and flow throughout the week. In the course of building this app, we've noticed that it looks like more "News" articles become prominent on Mondays, while more "Lifestyle" articles get attention at the weekend. But humans are very good to spotting/inventing patterns where there are none: maybe over time there'll be enough data to analyse it properly.
We hope that this makes for an interesting alternative springboard into the content on this site, and those who have been playing with it behind the scenes can confirm that it's a great starting point when you've got a few minutes spare and just want something to read but you're not sure where to start.
So how does a story end up in the Zeitgeist? Time, as the shampoo adverts say, for the science bit.
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Tuesday 2 February 2010
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One of the information architecture wireframes that was part of the production process of The Guardian iPhone application in 2009.
Telling people at parties that you are an 'Information Architect' generally leads to blank looks all round. Here is a brief overview of "the art and science of organising websites".
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Thursday 28 January 2010
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Tom Allan (Edinburgh), Hannah Waldram (Cardiff) and John Baron (Leeds)
Late last year, Guardian News & Media advertised three brand new 'beatblogger' positions as part of our experimental Guardian Local initiative. The Local project is a small-scale community approach to local newsgathering, and will focus on the three politically engaged cities of Edinburgh, Cardiff and Leeds. Continue reading...
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Monday 25 January 2010
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A detail from Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch's Linking Open Data dataset cloud diagram.
At a News Linked Data Summit last week, The Guardian's Information Architect, Martin Belam, gave a presentation on how the news industry should approach the developing 'web of data'.
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Thursday 21 January 2010
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guardian.co.uk
We see over 100,000 searches on the guardian.co.uk website every day, and nearly 20,000 of those each day will be unique queries. This article looks at a small sample of what 'the long tail of search' actually contains.
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Wednesday 30 December 2009
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Barack Obama meets Gordon Brown in the garden at 10 Downing Street. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty
The magic of tags means we can count the number of times we've produced content that is significantly about a subject, for a set time period, and even within a specific folder (a folder containing all our people tags for example). This means we can produce an end of year rundown of the people who've provoked us to produce the most – and least – in 2009.* Continue reading...
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Thursday 17 December 2009
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Berlusconi, pictured at a news conference earlier this year, has been the most popular search term on guardian.co.uk in 2009 / Photograph: AP/Pier Paolo Cito
The scandal-hit Italian premier pips Iran, swine flu and the BNP to be the most searched for news topic during 2009
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