Archives for December 2008
BBC iPlayer for Me
Whoo – it works! Get it here! With the illegal shell script I’d been attempting to use previously (circled) – now it can be told.
TESLA
From BoingBoing today (guest blogger Clay Shirky!): Mark Hurst, the user experience expert [at MeetUp.com], talks about Tesla — “time elapsed since labs attended” — a measure of how long it’s been since a company’s decision-makers (not help desk) last saw a real user dealing with their product or service. Measured in days, Meetup approaches [...]
The Canary Is Doing Its Job
Phew. I’ve just got out from a large amount of IRC and email about this and this bug on Wikimedia. As of about midnight this evening, it’s boiled down to what seems like (at worst) some over-zealous censorship by the IWF which has now been corrected. I spent a while hanging out on Be Internet’s [...]
Proof That the Internet Needs Stopping
If you land on a web site you know nothing about and it asks you for your authentication details to another system, you should (if you have any sense) immediately hit the back button. Yet with all the hand-wringing about phishing, identity theft and net crime in general, a site called Power.com apparently sees a [...]
