No worries, just don't let it happen again :)
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Ian Forrester
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth
Sent: 24 November 2009 12:42
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC News - Googlejuice vs Usability
Ian,
Sorry about that, it pasted fine into gmail and then it converted like
that.
2009/11/24 Ian Forrester <[email protected]>
It would be preferred if people could make use of
places/services like Pastebin for huge amounts of data which frankly little of
us want to see in our emails :)
Cheers,
Secret[] Private[] Public[x]
Ian Forrester
Senior Backstage Producer
BBC R&D North Lab,
1st Floor Office, OB Base,
New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road,
Manchester, M60 1SJ
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth
Sent: 22 November 2009 11:52
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC News - Googlejuice vs
Usability
To to avoid, or perhaps to add to, the confusion, I
thought I should run the FLETCH score for the link titles that Jakob Nielsen
likes so much. Here they are with the article scores.
Title score Title Article score 110.15 Boy aged 15
dies of stab wounds 47.46 98.06 MSPs to get power to ban airguns 38.81 98.06
Two women die in single car crash 37.71 94.04 More rain but flood risk lowers
50.37 94.04 Jackson glove sells for $350 000 50.01 94.04 Pair attempt to rob
coffee shop 46.75 94.04 End 'cheap bevvies' Welsh urges 24.1 88.4 What the
Scottish papers say 38.28 79.94 Men die after stolen car crashes 53.41 79.94
Ray Mears on Canada 'Welsh hero' 48.92 79.94 Search for missing woman in river
44.7 79.94 Group attacks taxi driver and car 41.82 79.94 Army checks police
HQ car 'bomb' 40.43 74.86 Can psychics help to solve crime? 32.61 71.48 MSP
seeks drink-drive limit cut 36.92 71.48 Facial wounds 'higher among poor'
34.48 65.84 Shed is cordoned off after blaze 46.59 65.84 Men held over police
gun attack 35.59 65.84 Hearing for US army base 'gunman' 26.12 65.84 Blasts
kill five in India's Assam 23.84 54.56 Manx fans welcome Hollywood star 49.42
54.56 Two people 'missing' after fire 46.85 54.56 City swimming pool plans
unveiled 45.46 54.56 Indonesia ferry sinks in squall 43.5 54.56 Chinese mine
blast toll doubles 40.08 54.56 Flood bridge safety checks begin 38.68 54.56
Cern Collider makes fast progress 36.61 54.56 Student visas 'soar' after
change 36.41 54.56 Beijing concerns over mine blast 33.33 54.56 New jab
offers better protection 24 54.56 Town centre's taxi marshal scheme 18.46
51.74 India push targets end of polio 34.55 51.74 Power is restored to city
homes 30.18 51.74 Cameron and PM sorry over photos 29.03 37.64 Minibus crash
man critically ill 37.43 37.64 Canoeist killed in swollen river 36.93 37.64
Israeli air strikes target Gaza 25.15 37.64 Boy's death remains 'unexplained'
24.16 20.72 Charge in mutilation murder case 39.54 20.72 Motorist fatally
injured in crash 39.5 20.72 Paper publishes secret Iraq reports 33.89 20.72
US Senate approves health debate 30.47 20.72 Polls open in Romanian election
29.84 16.49 Whisky protected against copies 25.78 3.8 Tribute to caretaker
fire victim 38.59 -4.67 Blaze destroys rural warehouse 29.08 -18.77
Lawnmowers 'injure thousands' 38.76 -25.82 Cameron planning emergency budget
29.63 -46.97 Azeri president threatens Armenia 27.22 -46.97 Senior Iranian
reformer jailed 15.93
"Floods body is missing policeman" scores 37.635,
"Whisky body backs safe drinking" scores 54.56. This means that the first one
is harder than the second, but the score on the actual text is harder than the
headline.
Is a high score good ("the BBC is not dumbing down") or
bad ("the BBC is inaccessible to the majority")?
2009/11/21 Frank Wales <[email protected]>
Mo McRoberts wrote:
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 03:11:28PM
+0000, Frank Wales wrote:
So, am I supposed to conclude that:
43.2 Floods body is missing policeman
is noticeably easier to read than:
22.6 Whisky body backs safe drinking
I’d contend that in terms of sheer
readability of the headlines, the
floods one is far worse—in that it
takes far more effort, but having
successfully parsed both, I’d have a
reasonable idea of what both
stories relate to (enough for me to
decide whether to read them or
not).
So would I, hence my asking for the
clarification that Brian
provided.
Indeed, there is a completely sensible parse of
the first headline
that makes it about a flood-related
organization that is
currently suffering from the absence of a
police officer.
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