Archive44.com is a fun little project I decided to do on the spur of the moment. It’s basically an archive of over 900 front pages of newspapers from all over the world on the day Barack Obama, the first black African American, became President of the United States of America. When you put over 900 front pages together you really get a sense of scale and importance this day was.

Long tail search seems to be my greatest search phrase referrer via search engines. Phrases like ‘thomas jefferson with crayon lines’, ‘digital design principles explained’, ‘how to create a motivational posters with photoshop’. Some are bizarre, some are unexplainable but what about the short ones? Like SEO, Bogey, Viagra, Frog! Comment below the shortest search phrase a user has typed into a search engine and stumbled upon your lovely website… and include a link!

We’ll start with ours, boring indeed but one non the less:

“ART”

While looking up OS, resolution and browers stats for January 2009 on TheCounter.com I can across some statistics that made froth at the g**h. Vista is no doubt a flop for Microsoft, it looks great but that’s just about where the celebrations stop.

According to TheCounter.com the top operating system used to access a TheCounter.com website between Febuary 2009 to January 2009 was Windows XP with 74%….. unsurprising. In last place was Windows Vista with 0%, one place behind Amiga OS!

Ok ok I’m sure you’ll have a million and one reasons why these results are as such but before you spit your dummies out just sit back and enjoy.

Adobe revealed their new ‘traditionally themed’ Photoshop interface this week at their annual AdobeExpo. The drastic redesign has come after months of highly publicised campaigning by angry Anti-Adobe protesters who state that their current interface is “harming our planet”, and “is turning our young generation into mindless web2.0 obsessed vombies”.

A spokesman from Adobe said “This new redesign will revolutionise the way we design in the future. The new sophisticated layout and intuitive panels will help modern designers leave the world of Web2.0 behind and thrust the web into a new place, a place where animated GIFs will live happily with PNG’s and Serif fonts.”

Bill Bates, leader of the Anti-Adobe interface movement said… “It’s about time! I’ve always been a fan of Adobe in the past but when their new interface was released in 2002 I knew this would cast dark shadows over the traditional design era. Web 2.0 on the web is a direct result of that interface so we knew it had to go!”

He continued…

“Next is Microsoft 8’s new interface, it just sucks, and if left to spread amongst our unprepared nation we’ll all turn into f***……” *Interview cut short.

Let us know your thoughts, can this new interface really eradicate Web 2.0 from the web? Can this new interface really improve the quality of designs. And most importantly, would you pay £1,250.00 for the luxury?

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Credit:Advertising Agency: Bates141
Creative Director: Hendra Lesmono
Art Directors: Irawandhani Kamarga, Andreas Junus
Copywriter: Darrick Subrata
Photographer: Anton Ismael
Published: August 2008

While I was flicking through the Front page archive on Newseum.org on Auguration day 2009 I was surprised to see an entry from my hometown’s local paper ‘The Scarborough Evening News.’ Only 6 Papers in total were featured from the UK, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and a couple others… but why on earth was the Evening News featured?