Google Reader is widely credited for popularising the now familiar pattern of infinite scrolling. This means not having to click through an endless series of “More / Next / Page x” links to view more content. The problem is particularly acute on long search results and Google has started to rectify this, with the introduction of infinite scrolling to their Image Search.
What sets Google Images apart is how they’ve retained the concept of pages and page numbers, while also presenting content on a single, infinitely long page. These page number headings provide a spatial dimension to an otherwise endless list, enabling the user to visualise and quantify how far down the page they are.
Page number headings are a great visual aid, but they can be much more. Google Images should present these headings as anchor points that can linked, bookmarked and revisited. This will provide a spatial dimension akin to the old paginated links at the bottom of a page, while not compromising the obvious benefits of a bottomless page. Worth trying, in my opinion.
Budrus is a new documentary film about the peace movement that emerged in the Palestinian town of Budrus. Instigated by Ayaz Morrar to peacefully oppose construction of a dividing wall between Palestine and Israel, the movement united men, women and children from both sides of the border to defiantly (yet nonviolently) oppose the inhumane wall.
Watching this trailer gave me the kind of goosebumps I first felt on seeing Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi. Perhaps it’s because Ayaz Morrar (the leader of the movement) has an uncanny resemblance to the young Gandhi featured in Richard Attenborough’s film, but in the end it’s the principles of nonviolence that draw the feelings of similarity.
I can’t wait to watch this documentary in full and witness the growing peace activism in Palestine over the coming years. If history is any indication, it is the only way for lasting freedom.
When Rahman Speaks: now using TypeKit for typography. I wasn’t happy with Georgia in large, especially on black and non-webkit browsers. I’m still struggling to get it right for Firefox, but I’m a little happier with how it looks overall on Windows (the image above is from Chrome on Windows). Improving legibility without sacrificing aesthetics across browsers takes effort, but it’s worth striving for.
Dorothy Stowe’s life was a life of action. She lived by her every conviction. Her life is an inspiration.
She started as a social worker, married a civil rights lawyer, hosted her wedding dinner at a formative U.S. association for civil rights, changed her family name in honour of a pioneering abolitionist, moved countries twice with her family to avoid supporting the Vietnam War through her taxes, and worked full-time as a family therapist to support her full-time peace activist husband.
