Archive for March, 2007

IA for the WWW

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Got my copy of the 3rd edition of Information Architecture for the WorldWide Web by Morville and Rosenfeld yesterday. Brilliant stuff, should be compulsory reading for all human rights webmasters! They cover it all: the principles, the processes, the building, the strategies, you name it it’s in there. The best is that this update looks [...]

Passport problems

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Had a registered letter from the British Embassy today, thought: “that’s quick I only sent it on Thursday!” Then, I saw it contained forms, birth certificates and a request for more papers!!! Damn… I might not have it in time for Indonesia! But when I looked closer it wasn’t my form, but for some lady [...]

Timetables can be tight

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Ok so I at last found the Air France office in town, they have moved twice since I was there last. I couldn’t book on-line, and thank god I couldn’t as without human advice I’d have messed it up. I return from Jakarta at 10 am Saturday morning if all goes well. Thing is we’d [...]

Dates are fixed

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Ok so training dates are now agreed: I’ll be in Indonesia from 21-27 April 2007. The local organisers are The Tifa Foundation. They have a very pleasing website, not sure what kind of CMS they are using. It could benefit from some work on metadata so I hope I’ll have time to speak to their [...]

Starting this blog up

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Ok planning for Indonesia is under way. Should be there one month from now. SO I decided I really must get this blog going. This is a bit of a surprise trip as Daniel, Huridocs’ Training Officer, famous for humanrightstools.org, can’t make it. I’ve heard Indonesia is fascinating, but looks like I won’t have much [...]

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