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While the MOOC Bus Heads Off, A Modest Proposal for ds106

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Universities better get on the MOOC bus, because it is leaving the station… https://twitter.com/audreywatters/status/355031898264846336 "marketing was the main reason his institution was trying a MOOC" http://t.co/5C2ceqgeOA Jump on the bus now cause its going off a cliff — Alan Levine (@cogdog) July 10, […]

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Guess What Kind of Yahoos Are Making the Design Decisions for Flickr?


cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Chris Lott

It’s gotta be monkeys (no offense to the primates) (but I love it when my creative common search turns up an image from a friend, hi Chris).

Seriously– who is Yahoo using as a test group for the “new” flickr? The latest WTF is the insertion of a Yahoo navigation bar that looks like it was hand coded in the mid 1990s.

yucks yuck

On looking at the page source I truly accepted to see a bunch of

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tags. At least it was not that bad. Maybe there is some humor at Monkey Web Design Shops, since the main div id is named “eyebrow” and the interior divs are all called “yucs”

yucs

Yeah. YUCK- they cannot even spell that correctly.

I was curious to see what the infestation of ads was like, so I hopped over to Safari to explore Flickr when I was logged out or using an old free account I use very rarely. The most odd thing was in Safari there is no Ugly Butt Yahoo Navigation Bar.