Monday, 21 April 2008

Words & Phrases and how they found me

The journalist John Kelly writes in todays Guardian about the weird words that people have entered into the search engines and ended up at his blog and how they are most likely to be disappointed.

Now that I've posted 101 items to this blog, I thought I'd check my Google Analytics and find the five weirdest combinations of words that brought people to the site and they are in no particular order.

  1. long bobs
  2. snow will worsen it
  3. ross on wye witchcraft
  4. good bush bad bush t-shirt
  5. charles 1 civil war kids
Johns Kelly article is here

Sunday, 20 April 2008

Colour Photos from the 1930's and 1940's

Somehow America seems to be light years ahead of us in the UK when it comes to releasing information into the public domain. For example, the Library of Congress has released 1615 colour photographs onto Flickr and not put any copyright restrictions on them to encourage their viewing and distribution. In contrast, check out the Guardian newspapers Free Our Data Campaign

View the slideshow




or visit the 1930s-40s in Color set on Flickr