Posts authored by Martin Belam:
Friday, 3 February 2012
Guardian Hack Day: The presentations
Martin Belam, Jonathan Richards, Joanna GearyFollow us as we find out what the Guardian developers have built in their two-day hack day
Thursday, 15 December 2011
December's "Carnival of journalism" round-up
Martin BelamThis month the Guardian Developer blog hosted the "Carnival of journalism", asking what journalists and programmers might exchange as presents during the festive season
Friday, 2 September 2011
UX drop-in and EuroIA Predux events at the Guardian
Martin BelamThis week we have hosted two User Experience and Information Architecture themed events in the Guardian's offices
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
From 'Social by design' to 'Social workers of technology' - UPA 2011
Martin BelamUsability Professionals' Association conference told that 'social' needs to be at the heart of a company's digital offerings
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Knight-Mozilla News Innovation Jam
Martin BelamAt the weekend, the Guardian hosted a Knight-Mozilla News Innovation Jam meet-up, bringing together designers, web developers and journalists to think about the future of digital news
Monday, 16 May 2011
Knight-Mozilla News Innovation Jam
Martin BelamJoin us at the Guardian's Kings Place HQ for a day in which we 'hack the future of journalism online'
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Cennydd Bowles predicts a rocky road ahead for UX at the Denver IA Summit
Martin BelamThree main themes emerged at the recent IA Summit in Denver: measuring the value of our work, getting our work done faster, and learning from other related disciplines. However, it was Cennydd Bowles' closing plenary that made the longest lasting impression - predicting troubled times ahead for the IA and UX fields
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Questions in search of an answer
Martin Belam'What is Twitter?', 'When will 2012 university league tables be available?' and 'Who is the highest paid footballer in the world 2011?' are just some of the questions guardian.co.uk users have asked us in the past month when using our site search.
Thursday, 17 February 2011
How we created our SXSW music listings pages
Martin BelamThis week as part of the Guardian Hacks SXSW project we have launched a guide to the bands playing at this year's SXSW festival in Austin
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Tags are magic! - Part 4
Martin Belam, Peter MartinIn the last of a series of posts based on a presentation given at last year's Online Information conference in London, the Guardian's tag manager Peter Martin and information architect Martin Belam look at how our tags are used to link to the external world, improve search and navigation, and to place components on our pages
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Tags are magic! - Part 3
Martin Belam, Peter MartinIn part three of this series of posts based on a presentation given at last year's Online Information conference in London, the Guardian's tag manager Peter Martin and information architect Martin Belam look at how we keep our tags useful for the audience, and in line with house style
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Tags are magic! - Part 2
Martin Belam, Peter MartinIn part two of this series of posts based on a presentation given at last year's Online Information conference in London, the Guardian's tag manager Peter Martin and information architect Martin Belam look at the use of folders to build a taxonomy from the tags applied to content
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Tags are magic! - Part 1
Martin Belam, Peter MartinLast year at the Online Information conference in London, the Guardian's tag manager Peter Martin and information architect Martin Belam gave a presentation called Mapping the Guardian's Tags to the Web of Data. In a series of posts for the Developer Blog, they outline why Tags Are Magic
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Talking about The Guardian and 'Linked Open Data' at news:rewired
Martin Belam
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Exploiting open and linked data at Online Information 2010
Martin BelamGuardian Information Architect Martin Belam spent a couple of days at the Online Information 2010 conference in London, watching sessions on Exploiting open and linked data
