14th
Apr
The Big Word Project is now on Wikipedia! This will be a good place to find out details on the project so far if you are new to The Big Word Project. Enjoy!
Encyclopedia - a comprehensive reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects or on numerous aspects of a particular field, usually arranged alphabetically
1st
Apr
HungerHere’s a word we came across that’s in aid of a good charitable project. Hunger links to Free Rice, a website that donates 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Programme for every question you get correct in their game.
The great thing is that the questions are about words! While helping aid those less fortunate, you can develop your vocaubulary, and who knows maybe you’ll be able to tell us what some of the words mean on The Big Word Project. The more you get right, the harder they get.
You might be wondering how do they do this? Well the ads on the question pages fund the rice (so it might be worth clicking on a few of them too).
As of 1st April 2008 they’ve donated 24,809,255,710 grains of rice from the website, and the site was only launched October 2007. We wish them all the best with the website and hope you will check out hunger too.
Starve - suffer or die or cause to suffer or die from hunger
29th
Mar
Aislinn Hagan interviewed us for The Irish News video player on Friday (28th March 2008).
This was our first video interview so was great fun to do and we think it’s came together really well.
You can check out the video here.
Interview -an occasion on which a journalist or broadcaster puts a series of questions to a person of public interest
27th
Mar
Page 5 of today’s (27th March 2008) paper features an article on The Big Word Project. The News Letter is another local paper to pick up on the project and we’re very thankful for their support.
You can check out the article here.
Newsletter - a bulletin issued periodically to those in a particular group
19th
Mar
Simon Doyle has featured us in The Irish News education section on Monday 17th March (St. Patrick’s Day). Click the thumbnail below to read the article. Thanks Simon.
Googol - Equivalent to ten raised to the power of a hundred
18th
Mar
First of all Happy belated St Paddy’s day! Hope you all celebrated in style. Here’s a glimpse of what we got up to. We’re still recovering… And yes Paddy’s beard is green.
We look through all the websites submitted to The Big Word Project and here are a few that have caught our eye because of their design, their interesting idea or just because we like them! So without further ado and in no particular order…
We really love this site! Everything you need to know about Raccoons, including Raccoons in the news, Raccoon facts and links to more Raccoon sites out there. What more could you want?
This relatively new blog has such a great design, we love the simplicity and especially the little tab navigation.
Great community site where people ask and answer questions. Quite a nice design and concept.
This site allows you to create a wishlist and share it with your friends.
In a different language but we really like the design of this site. Some great tshirt designs from Ufo Republic.
Fantastic idea where you can buy tickets and win prizes by choosing the lowest unique ticket number.
Each month, MailboxTees will find some super amazing and talented artist to create a totally unique design and put it on a really nice, soft, high quality shirt. then we’ll mail it to you (or your chosen recipient) every month! Great idea, think we might sign up!
We couldn’t figure out why all the text was highlighted when we first went to this site. Quite a different design approach but cool. Again in another language but we love the design.
Who would have thought a blue, yellow and brown colour scheme would work? Teemow’s a great blog with some interesting topics.
Some nice artwork here, love the statistic pieces.
A CSS experiment which boasts itself as the World’s Highest Website.
This made us chuckle.
We love this site’s design and it’s interesting navigation.
We’ve been active users of Fluther for a while now. It’s a great site where you can get your questions answered.
Fantastic design, love the navigation with the little paperclips and stuff. Brilliant.
These guys are doing some really impressive work. Slick design and striking imagery.
We know more than anybody that its important to take regular breaks from the old screen so we might make use of this little program.
These mustached mates are doing something really different by touring…the net. They play their funky beats on peoples’ blogs instead of different venues.
We like the musical stylings of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. Give them a listen, they’re kinda bluesy and have a great wee widget down the left hand side.
Not up and running yet but looks to be quite a nice bookmarking site for all those links you don’t have time to check out now.
Paddy - A specially irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown
13th
Mar
We were interviewed by Mary McCaffrey from The Beat, “Belfast’s longest running and best loved free entertainments magazine”. It was a pleasure talking to Mary and we appreciate the magazine’s support.
Read the article by clicking it below or you can read the full magazine.
12th
Mar
We recently had an interview with Mathew Honan [mat] from Wired magazine. All went well and we’re looking forward to seeing the interview publicized.
In the mean time, Wired sent over a couple of photographers (James and Stuart) to take our photos, which was a good experience. They also sent some sort of award for the photo shoot, and we’re not quite sure what the award is for yet (let’s hope it’s a good award).
What do you think it’s for?
Algorithm - a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer
6th
Mar
We had our first ever radio interview today! Niall at Queens Radio talked to us this afternoon, which was great. Thanks Niall! It was quite a new experience for us, hopefully it got the project some good publicity. We’re really keen to get some press off the web as well and we’ve had a few interviews over the past couple of days. So keep your eyes out for The Big Word Project in newspapers and magazines!
You never know, it could be TV interviews next!
Humanitarian - A person actively engaged in promoting human welfare and social reforms, as a philanthropist.