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Collaborative Design posted 28th May 2004

Following on from the discussion raised around Design Eye For The Usability Guy, the thoroughly enjoyable team-redesign of Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, Keith Robinson is launching another collaborative design project. This time Keith will be joining forces with the readers of his blog to design a fictional band site. So far we are told that the ultimate aim is ‘show that it’s possible to make a killer band site that looks cool and is very easy to use as well’. We now nothing of the band yet – that is for the collaborators to piece invent. Looks like it’ll be fun…

The Degree Confluence Project: A collaborative initiative on a genuinely global scale, the Degree Confluence Project aims to visit and photograph each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world.
Dissatisfied: Well it seems someone isn’t too keen on The Guardian’s blog competition. Tom argues that the compo goes against the essence of blogging; that we shouldn’t be judging people’s outpouring of thoughts, emotions and ideas. On the face of it, this…
Carousing with celebs: Gaz Combes, he of Supergrass fame, lives just around the corner from me. So when, the other Sunday, we both turned up at my local, it was not really a surprise. But what is the etiquette in this situation? Here he is: a neighbour, but also the lead singer of a rock band. One…
Sensitive scumbag: Fabulous quote from Iggy Pop.
No Butt, don’t shoot !: It’s better than sex. Well, it’s certainly better than any sex I’ve ever had.