A continuum of gradational culture change through time representing the unbroken development of a single culture. Or, as we prefer to have it, it’s a tradition of long-standing.
And the tradition to which refer is the annual exercise in casting a light-hearted eye back over the last 12 months, to rake through the ashes for a few glowing embers of enlightenment and truth. Then dream up a suitable award category. (Look, just get on with it. Ed.)
So, without further ado…
Right on the money Award
Site maps were highlighted as “one of the least recognised and unappreciated elements of a web site” in the first week of January. Six months later saw the launch of Google Sitemaps, making the humble sitemap as important as keywords for getting a site indexed.
“Marginally worse than that’ Award
As ever this was a tough one to call. Contenders were many. Personal favourite – and the winner – was a story about the heavily-garbled text rendition produced by speech recognition software. This attempt at oral speech transfer could only have been outdone by “Chinese whispers played while wearing balaclavas and eating gob stoppers.” See Best headline of the Year
Still awaited Award
This goes to the article that proved to be less imminent than predicted. Early speculation in February about Google working on an own-brand browser appears in hindsight to be wide of the mark. So far, anyway.
Best headline of the Year
Beach re-cog mission
Runner up: Knowing your RSS from your XML
Best flight of fancy
Rural broadband was solved at a stroke. And the answer was right under our noses all along…broadband by fence wire
Laboured joke of the Year
A big build up was required to link spam of the email variety with the spam sketch of Monty Python. Getting there in the end was How to cut spam
