Comments on: Where is this Greece place you speak of? http://conoroneill.com/2008/01/06/where-is-this-greece-place-you-speak-of/ Local stuff and other stuff from a blow-in Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:07:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: greece http://conoroneill.com/2008/01/06/where-is-this-greece-place-you-speak-of/comment-page-1/#comment-104893 greece Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:34:06 +0000 http://conoroneill.com/2008/01/06/where-is-this-greece-place-you-speak-of/#comment-104893 <strong>Where is this Greece place you speak of?...</strong> Bookmarked your post over at Blog Bookmarker.com!... Where is this Greece place you speak of?…

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]]> By: conor http://conoroneill.com/2008/01/06/where-is-this-greece-place-you-speak-of/comment-page-1/#comment-104020 conor Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:02:08 +0000 http://conoroneill.com/2008/01/06/where-is-this-greece-place-you-speak-of/#comment-104020 I fully expect a barrage of complaints about your comment from my Indonesian readers ;-) I fully expect a barrage of complaints about your comment from my Indonesian readers ;-)

]]> By: Jason http://conoroneill.com/2008/01/06/where-is-this-greece-place-you-speak-of/comment-page-1/#comment-104018 Jason Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:52:11 +0000 http://conoroneill.com/2008/01/06/where-is-this-greece-place-you-speak-of/#comment-104018 That's just a standard templated map, probably generated by a script. I'd imagine BBC News do this because they make lots of them, quickly. E.g... http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44339000/jpg/_44339024_skorea_icheon_jan08.jpg http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44337000/gif/_44337002_pak_nw_frontier_map203.gif http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42832000/gif/_42832989_iraq_bagh_mos_map203.gif You're also assuming that everyone reading the site is in Europe and is well educated in geography. Perhaps someone in Indonesia, Chile, or the USA (joke) would need a little help locating a relatively small country in Europe. That’s just a standard templated map, probably generated by a script. I’d imagine BBC News do this because they make lots of them, quickly.

E.g…
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44339000/jpg/_44339024_skorea_icheon_jan08.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44337000/gif/_44337002_pak_nw_frontier_map203.gif
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42832000/gif/_42832989_iraq_bagh_mos_map203.gif

You’re also assuming that everyone reading the site is in Europe and is well educated in geography. Perhaps someone in Indonesia, Chile, or the USA (joke) would need a little help locating a relatively small country in Europe.

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