Today’s Globe and Mail says the federal government is looking at getting out of the map printing business and providing digital files online for a fee or free. The move is cost-cutting, and is supportedly very clearly by the numbers: in 2003 over 330,000 maps were distributed, in 2004, over 261,000, but in the past year only 2000+ as more files are available online.
Brad Green, President of World of Maps, is reportedly starting a letter-writing campaign, though there is no word of it on their site.
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2005 online holiday sales forecast from eMarketer: predicting the biggest season ever.
Comments closedJakob Nielsen’s Alertbox for today, The Power of Defaults, reveals users’ annoying habit of clicking the first item of a list, in research conducted by Cornell University. This something we all suspected (a la “AAA Auto Repair” yellow page listings) and this research proves: user default is to click the top item.
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