How many expectations can produce a new homepage? What if deepening in the site, from inner level 1, the layout is stuck to the previous one? How many people are working for a project as wide as the web site of the BBC? How many in the IA team? Is there an IA team or there are Information Architects deployed on different tasks or areas of the site?

About 70% of Americans think traditional journalism is out of touch with them. This is the result of an online poll conducted by We Media/Zogby Interactive.

For 48% of the interviewed the primary source of news and informations is Internet, this is a 40% increase from a year before. This percentage is higher (55%) for those aged 18 to 29, lower (35%) for those aged more than 65. Television account as 29% of the interviewed primary source for news, radio is at 11%, newspapers at 10%.

An interesting piece on the New York Times Magazine, Deborah Solomon interviews Umberto Eco. Online an extract on Media and Populism: Questions for Umberto Eco, Media Studies

BBC.co.uk is possibly the best web site you can find on the world wide web. Quality (and quantity) of content is just great, web site overall look and feel is both a lesson in understatement and usability, giving a top class user experience to users.

Just some examples:

How newspapers approach the digital scenario? A photo gallery of online newspapers. The full gallery is available on Flickr at:

Keep reading for more screenshots.

My AdSense account is experiencing problems and I can't access my reports or any other page of the AdSense web. The following is the message Google AdSense is returning on a two lines message.

The AdSense logo, the my user name (in this case my Gmail address, Last Login time log, the Log Out link, the Help link and a Search AdSense Help input form are the elements provided in the header.

The footer offers links to the AdSense Blog, the AdSense Forum, the Privacy Policy, the Terms & Conditions, the Program Policies.

The following is the only info given in the main part of the page:

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Steve Jobs commencement address at Stanford University video is available on iTunesU here: Steve Jobs' 2005 Commencement Address

Stay hungry, stay foolish

If you really want a video to pass around, forget miss South Carolina, go for this one.

Peekaboo-k is a small publishing company specialized in flip books, those small books where a series of pictures, or drawings, vary gradually from one page to the next so that when flipping pages rapidly it gives the perception of an animation.

Peekaboo-k by Emmanuel Arcache

Peekaboo-k is an idea of Emmanuel Arcache, a young French 3D professional living in Barcelona, Spain. The first series of Peekaboo-k's flip books consist of five different scenes, all focused on Paris, the birthplace of mr. Arcache. The originality of the Parisian series of flip books published by Peekaboo-k's consisting in their retro art déco style; the five flip books are in black and white, the scenes made with 3D packages.

Flip Book, the making of

The following is a video detailing the making of the flip book with 3D software, the process used by Peekaboo-k to make the ParisFlip series.

Make your own Simpsons character on the Simpsons Movie web site, the following one is me!

Former Chief Creative Officer of Sega's United Game Artists game division, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, will work on a project of a Virtual Tokyo in Second Life for the Japanese advertising firm Dentsu.

Mizuguchi san is known in the video games world as the man behind seminal title REZ.

Mme. Christine Boutin, Minister for Housing and Urban Areas of Mr. Sarkozy government, says what she, and a lot of people, thinks: George W. Bush and his fellows could be the ones behind 9/11.

Interesting post by Annalee Newitzou, about the future of printed media journalism, and the future of printed media journalists: The future of paper. Post-print media, paper will survive. But will print journalists?.

Nicole Kidman as the testimonial for Nintendo DS.

From the press release:

Nicole joins over 10 million people who have made Brain Training part of their lives. Ms Kidman was chosen by Nintendo because of her universal appeal to mainstream audiences of all ages and backgrounds, as well as her reputation for being intelligent, entertaining and genuine.

Diesel was the special guest at Pitti Uomo n. 72 held at the end of June in DFlorence, Italy. Diesel presentes a special show on Thursday 21 June in the former Customs House, the ex Dogana.

Fashion show of SS'08 Preview Collection at Pitti Uomo. Journey through time and liquid space to a futuristic world of bioluminescence, giant mechanic cephalopods, futuristic aquanauts and mysterious galactic polips. Witness the first catwalk show with real models showing with holographic models.

More on the Diesel page on YouTube.

Back in the days Edutainment was the big hype everybody was talking about. Edutainment as a form of entertainment designed to educate as well as to amuse was already something of a false hype starting from it's definition: every game is an educating experience, it does not have to be an Educational Game, or whatever you want to call it. The fact is, playing Zelda, or WipEout Pure is already a matter of learning, and education. This works on different levels, you learn the game's mechanics and in-world physics, the rules of the game, how to interact with non human players or other players.

It's not educational

I can hear your mumblings, learning how to play Zelda, or how to fly a WipEout ship is not Education it's just like learning how to kick a ball, or what are the rules of soccer, or baseball. Doh! So what exactly is an Educational Game? While if we agree (more or less) on the meaning of game, what exactly is education when we talk about video games?