Received in my inbox this morning:

“You can now surrender control. SMS the keyword SURRENDER to 07870 679048 to
subscribe (+447870 679048 outside the UK) before the 18th November. The
subscription keyword will be disabled after this point.

You will receive 75 instructions over 5 days, starting 19th November. To
unsubscribe at any point, send the message CONTROL to the same number. The
messages will stop soon afterwards, and you will be able to return to your
normal life.

Your email address or phone number will not be given to anybody else, and
will be destroyed at the end of the project. You will be able to tell us
about your experiences at the end of the project, but we will never ask for
your name or other personal details, and after this we will not contact you
again.

There will be further opportunities to surrender control in 2002.”

GPS-drawing. Fan-bleeding-tastic.

• The GPS Drawing Homepage
• A giant fish in the Oxfordshire countryside
• A BBC News Online report on the phenomenon.

The world’s greatest engineering monkey crime-fighter will soon be living :: here

I’ve moved the bus maps page to a somewhat kludgesome MT blog at http://www.blackbeltjones.com/bus/ so you can all add comment about the amps, and wider issues of public info systems / transport networks should you so desire.

I’ll add all the emails about it I’ve had today there soon.

to everyone who has mailed me with their comments on the BBC.co.uk redesign – i think tenetaively it’s mainly a thumbs up, apart from some curmudgeonly comments on MeFi ;-).

Anyway – just to say again, that it was a great team effort… from a bunch of people who are going to do so much more from this platform in the next couple of months… still pretty psyched about the potential… but…

Weird day… the strange anticlimax of post-launch, plus realisation of stuff you parked cos you didn;t have time, real LIVE user testing and feedabck, plus all the stuff that you really want to do next mounting up…

Maths. Rational, beautiful, unequivocal [mostly].

In moments of tension or panic, just watch this little flash movie over at Textism:

What the Hell is the Fibonacci Series?

Our new homepage design, new pan-BBC search with friendly ‘best-bets’ type links, switchable scopes and improved UI; and a task-oriented global toolbar are LIVE

Phew!

I mainly worked on the search for the last 3 months, with an awesome team of librarians, coders and project managers; and did some work on the toolbar.

This is just the start of stuff we’re doing to make the BBC website rock – stay tuned.

In the mean time please go and wander round the new improved www.bbc.co.uk, and let me know what you think.

I’ve been raving to anyone who will listen about the information design of the new London bus route maps, so I’ve finally put up a little page of pix to illustrate my points…

Visualjournalism.com

[via xblog]

Lou Rosenfeld, Jeff Veen and Margaret Hanley of DynamicDiagrams/Ingenta were kind enough to stop in to the BBC today to meet up with our experience design group and answer our questions.

Before having a great lunch and great conversation with them I was also able to show them round some of the things that we’ve been working on for the last few months, which we’re going LIVE with tomorrow – GULP.

A little nerve-wracking to put your stuff in front of such gurudom, but they were very complimentary about it, which was a relief!!!

I’d really like all of your views on what we’ve done… I’ll discuss more once they’ve gone live as I can’t reveal them now… but suffice to say: check out www.bbc.co.uk tommorrow…

BTW… has anyone else ever noticed Jeff Veen‘s resemblance to a certain mystery-machine owning hero??? 😉