please empty your brain below

Off to check the recycling bag!

Not put together by the same people who thought that the Millenium Seed Bank was at Kew Gardens and that international tourists might want to go play football in the middle of Romney Marshes, is it, this website?

That should of course have been Acne Marshes.

And just try finding details of what's actually happening in the potentially interesting film programme...

This is a bit of a con. It looks like all that the mayor has done is got people to contact the major museums and blue badge people and said we're doing this what can you offer? The time scale was woefully short and the organisers are up against it. All anyone has done is rework old events or twisted things they are already doing and added a "now part of story of London" banner. The Tate just twisted their normal Tate Late Friday accordingly and Wellcome re-running previous walks. Blue badge guides are just doing their normal stuff but calling it story of London. Cuming Museum Lost Southwark is the same it's just something they were doing anyway and slotted under the banner by way of happy coincidence.

It doesn't necessarily need to be completely written by humans - the software and the data behind it just needs to be more sophisticated to allow you to customise your searches and sort your results properly.

That's certainly something that big businesses are starting to do really well. Unfortunately, it costs more and that's probably why it doesn't happen on sites like Visit London.

Sorry, but surely the purpose of sites like this is to create interest in London, increase "tourist footfall" and encourage us all to go out and spend money in London?

so why the Dickens isnt it thought necessary to spend sufficient money on it to get it to work properly?

The Crossness pumping station question was easy. I just looked at IanVisits's calendar for June!

I agree. The website could be better designed from a visitor's point of view.

Let's take one specific example. I'm trying to find the nearest events to me, and while they appear on a Google Map, if you go to the text results, it goes back to listing all the events alphabetically. I first thought it was me using a postcode just within the boundaries of Hertfordshire, but even with postcodes in Central London it's the same. I would expect the text list to have the ten nearest events, let's say, to the postcode I enter.

Of course, even on the map, you cannot see specific details about the event, unless you click each icon individually. Not good.

Perhaps BoJo should seriously consider getting some better web developers. The various publicly-funded London websites are not often anything to write home about.

But who is the person to decide that one organisation's event is better than another's?

Boris?











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