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Worst Infographic Yet: AlertMe Energy

by Jonathan Baker-Bates on January 24, 2010

(Apologies to Mike Elgan for the headline on this one) Those in the UK who want to use Google Power Meter can do so using a wireless doobrie from AlertMe Energy. Nothing wrong with that, but words fail me at the staggeringly bad information visualisation on their site. I hardly know where to begin with […]

  • Tags: idiocy, infoviz, rants
  • Categories: User Experience

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Retail Piracy

by Jonathan Baker-Bates on September 27, 2009

If I forward an email from my MP to a local news outlet without that MP’s written permission, that’s an infringement of Crown Copyright. I copy and paste some text from an online newspaper article. That’s probably an infraction of their terms and conditions. If I take a video of my son with a couple […]

  • Tags: copyfight, idiocy, pop
  • Categories: Copyfighting, Culture & Society

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Mashing Up Lily Allen

by Jonathan Baker-Bates on September 25, 2009

I’ve just been reading Lily Allen’s blog. For those not following such groovy things as closely as I do, she has recently decided that Piracy (she gives it a capital pee), is bad. So bad in fact that it is destroying lots of jobs and stifling new talent because those poor music executives won’t be […]

  • Tags: copyfight, idiocy, pop
  • Categories: Copyfighting, Music

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Quote I Like

by Jonathan Baker-Bates on January 23, 2009

“Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.” — Charles McCabe So take that, “programme managers”

  • Tags: ansgt, idiocy, teenage
  • Categories: Project Managment, Weak Filler

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Proof That the Internet Needs Stopping

by Jonathan Baker-Bates on December 3, 2008

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 […]

  • Tags: identity, idiocy, rants
  • Categories: Culture & Society

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