Newsweek’s Daniel Gross explains the Consumer Price Index (here’s the official BLS site) in a very simple video. I could do without the goofy sound effects, but it’s a good, 2 minute explanation of how the government tracks inflation.
Per David Simon’s Berkeley talk, though, the video doesn’t go into why this matters. Perhaps they’ll cover that in the next installment of the Economics 101 series.
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Might be some FM inspiration here and an excuse to take Pixelmator out for a spin.
Interesting topic. We’re emphasizing simplicity with the work we’re doing at Fanzter, but this might be an interesting alternative way to design.
I guess it’s OK if I say this now, but I used to HATE ESPN.com’s home page. For at least the last 3 years, most of the time I was there, it had turned into a big, bloated, ugly, messy mishmosh of too much text, too much advertising, and too little organization. I would literally look at the Top Story area, and the headlines and then leave, immediately, to the safe, more pleasant confines of the various sport index pages inside the site. The only time I loved it was when it was converted into the “war” mode for major event coverage.
Late last week, however, ESPN launched a new version of the home page. I have to say, they basically fixed all of the problems and addressed a lot of the things I personally would argue for in meetings. Here’s a screen shot:
Think about what you’re seeing… there are only 2 ads above the fold. 2. Scores are front and center, and it’s clean and easy to read most of the content on the page. I’m still not a fan of the subdivided boxes in the second column (page 2, the Mag for example), because it’s easier to read when the widths are consistent all the way down. Overall, though, this thing is awesome.
My biggest, biggest super happy, Thank God you finally did it item is the fact that the page stops scrolling after one page down on my monitor. I don’t know if you remember, but the page used to scroll on for-freaking-ever. At least 3-4 page downs on my monitor, and on a 1024×768 or 1280×1024, that would be even worse. This one, I see the bottom pieces of content after hitting page down once. Love it, love it, love it. I personally would argue for this in meetings, but I couldn’t get edit to listen. I guess someone else made the more persuasive case. Whoever you are, you rock.
Now, any chance of bringing the photo gallery back to the front page? I miss it. The photography and photo editing at ESPN is one of it’s strengths. Wish we would see more than just the front page photo.
