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Can we please remember that M$ hasn’t completely taken over the world?
I just had to take four on-line safety courses here at Essex in order to get money from our research grant. I’ll spare you the horrors, although I did twitter on about of some of them as I went as a sanity saving device, and will share a couple:
“Keeping your workstation and office tidy [...]
Also posted in Computing, Education, Sabbatical Tagged Microsoft, open formats, open standards, web design, Web development Comments closed
Anyone want to pay their taxes in Sweden?
The Economist has an interesting piece on why government web services tend to suck, especially when compared with the best corporate services. Their take is that a significant part of it is that isn’t any kind of competition, so there isn’t much fall out if government web tools are wretched:
When Britain’s Inland Revenue website [...]
Also posted in Computing, Education Tagged Computing, government, internet, on-line communities, University of Minnesota, Web development Comments closed
We can all make history come alive
Courtesty of Status-Q, I’ve just run across this amazing and wonderful little project: WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier.
Bill Lamin is posting the letters his grandfather (Harry Lamin) wrote home from the front of WWI as a blog. Each letter is posted 90 years after (to the day) Harry wrote it, so following [...]
Facebook a creepy peeping tom neighbor?
Apparently Facebook is collecting even more information about us than we thought:
A Computer Associates security researcher is sounding the alarm that Facebook’s controversial Beacon online ad system goes much further than anyone has imagined in tracking people’s Web activities outside the popular social networking site.
Beacon will report back to Facebook on members’ activities on third-party [...]
Also posted in Computing, Education Tagged privacy, risks, technology, Web 2.0, Web development Comments closed
What?!? Actually base web design on data?!?
Yup, crazy as it sounds. Eyetrack has collected some nice user data, which they summarize in “What We Saw When We Looked Through Their Eyes”, which is then reorganized in “Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies” over at VirtualHosting.com.
At some point I should go through these with some care and think [...]
If Microsoft had designed GMail
This is hilarious. They walk you through the stepwise changes if Redmond had designed GMail. Thanks to John Naughton for the pointer.
Tags: design, Google, HCI, Microsoft, web design
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Hey-dee-ho! Spiffy new version of WordPress all around
I just finished a long overdue upgrade of all the UnhinderedByTalent.com WordPress installs, so everyone’s all spiffy and shiny now.
The photo (from the Green Fair where we met the River Nene folks) is just there to fool you into believing this post actually had content :-).
Someone asked over on Flickr if I knew who this [...]
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An excellent follow-up to the Lessig video
Or, more on how the world is changing wildly while we’re busy making other plans:
This is a wonderfully simple and provocative video. You can quibble about some of the details, but don’t. Step back and soak in the big picture. And then think about how we educate our kids and ourselves. [...]
On the internet no one knows you’re a computer, and further evidence that little boxes just don’t work
On the way in to work today I listened to a Scientific American podcast (27 Sep 2007) where they interviewed Robert Epstein about several interesting things. In the first part he described what must have been a pretty horrifically embarrassing experience, wherein he was fooled for four months by a chatterbot. Chatterbots are [...]
Cool discussion of Web 2.0 by ThoughtWorks crew