Kim said: Useful or Playful? Is the question to ask.
I'd argue that useful and playful can be part of the same thing.
Certainly nothing ever stuck with me that I didn't enjoy using/ thinking
about. Likewise many of the children I used to teach. The trick is to
combine the 2. I think there's
On 15/08/07, Simon Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kim said: Useful or Playful? Is the question to ask.
I'd argue that useful and playful can be part of the same thing.
Certainly nothing ever stuck with me that I didn't enjoy using/ thinking
about. Likewise many of the children I used to
I need to make a confession it appears that I uploaded a non-finished
version of the interview to blip it contained a fade halfway through Peter
Brown’s interview this was not intentional! I’ve now uploaded the correct
version and hope you can all forgive me :-)
http://blip.tv/file/339619/
That's a total cop-out, either you can explain why no usability testing
is required or not.
if I'd taken up either position, I would explain it, I'm not going to do
it just because you ask.
Personally I don't drink so I can't see why I would never discover the
great truth that has been
Wouldn¹t the world be a boring place if everything was reduced to a result
of some user testing?
At some design conference I went to I saw (can¹t remember which one) a
designery chap described the joy he had going to a book shop and buying a
book that was wrapped in brown paper and string. The
On 15/08/07, Simon Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's a total cop-out, either you can explain why no usability testing
is required or not.
if I'd taken up either position, I would explain it, I'm not going to do
it just because you ask.
Great. I take it you withdraw your earlier
On 15/08/07, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wouldn't the world be a boring place if everything was reduced to a result
of some user testing?
Probably. But if you want something to work for users it seems
unavoidable. If you don't do it at the alpha or beta stage, then you're
Enough on this now please chaps let¹s keep this nice.
m
On 15/8/07 11:32, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 15/08/07, Simon Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's a total cop-out, either you can explain why no usability testing is
required or not.
if I'd taken up
And almost the last word on the yesterday and DRM?
Cory's piece in the Guardian yesterday -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/14/comment.drm
Ian Forrester
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On 8/15/07, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes. Utter, utter rubbish, that whole piece.
Would you care to give us a slightly more reasoned critique, Richard?
despite Cory's apparent predeliction for Soviet-Union-based metaphors (check
out his other DRM article for the Guardian), i
Yes. Utter, utter rubbish, that whole piece.
R.
On 8/15/07, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And almost the last word on the yesterday and DRM?
Cory's piece in the Guardian yesterday -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/14/comment.drm
Ian Forrester
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And there’s more...
http://clesh.com/videos/view/BBCsdemo-118711.can/
From Stephen Streater who was filming at the event...
m
On 15/8/07 13:20, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And almost the last word on the yesterday and DRM?
Cory's piece in the Guardian yesterday -
Certainly.
From my occasional online journal...
He's arguing that the BBC's use of DRM in its new iPlayer service
will legitimise the spread of DRM - at least I think that's what he's
thinks he's arguing. Actually, it's a reason-free rant against DRM
from the Everything should be free and
Well for me iPlayer will legitimise BitTorrent, as soon as it's
out of Beta, I will feel no moral obligation not to download the latest
Dr Who, or whatever (I do currently; I've never torrented a TV
programme). After all, the BBC will then be giving content away free on
demand, I'll
Whereas, looking at the photos indicates that 20 is an exaggeration of
about 100%.
Cheers,
R.
On 8/15/07, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More likely, Organisers put the turnout at 800...
R.
On 8/15/07, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Presumably on the news we'll get the
A view from America.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheSecretDiaryOfSteveJobs/~3/144065882/freeta
rds-attack-bbc-but-get-beaten-off.html
Paul Daniel
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Sent: 15 August 2007 16:37
To:
Well. When I was interviewing at about 10:45 there were 12 people there
(that's when I took the photos) Ian then came down when I left and he came
back and said there were about 20 people there after others joined.
m
On 15/8/07 16:54, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whereas,
On 15/08/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If a drinks company is giving away a can of drink free at a railway
station (which happens), does that entitle you to go into Sainsburys and
take one without paying for it?
No, that would be stealing, I would be depriving the original
vijay chopra wrote:
On 15/08/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If a drinks company is giving away a can of drink free at a railway
station (which happens), does that entitle you to go into Sainsburys and
take one without paying for it?
One deprives someone of a tangeable object,
At 08:59 +0100 14/8/07, Brian Butterworth wrote:
If these Internet Service Providers don't want to provide Internet
access that makes them another Great British oxymoron, surely?
And they don't seem to want multicast either?
Gordo
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It seems you made it to the slashdot frontpage!
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/15/1721229
Vijay
On 15/08/07, Matthew Cashmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well. When I was interviewing at about 10:45 there were 12 people
there
(that's when I took the photos) Ian then came down
Dear Dave,
Who is Dan Lyons?
What is a shill?
Who is M...?
Namaste
Paul Daniel
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Sent: 15 August 2007 18:33
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer Protest tommorow,
Dan Lyons is a well known Microsoft shill.
Who said outing him would spoil the Fake Steve Jobs fun?
Although I do still like the fact that people put serious comments in
reply to the posts, kind of like writing to one of the characters in
Monkey Dust to set them straight about something :-)
From /.
An anonymous reader writes The future of iPlayer, the BBC's new
online on-demand system for delivering content, is continuing to look
bleaker. With ISPs threatening to throttle the content delivered
through the iPlayer, consumers petitioning the UK government and the
BBC to drop the DRM
On 15/08/07, Paul Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Dave,
Who is Dan Lyons?
A journalist for Forbes who has constantly attacked the software
freedom movement.
What is a shill?
A shill is an associate of a person selling goods or services or a
political group, who pretends no association
On 14/08/07, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The irony is that it probably doesn't matter now. They could now download it
using their Windows XP machine in DRMed Windows Media Format.
All thanks to our new overlord Bill, and his maniacal scheme to take over
the BBC from the inside.
At 19:44 +0100 15/8/07, Dave Crossland wrote:
On 15/08/07, Paul Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Dave,
Who is Dan Lyons?
A journalist for Forbes who has constantly attacked the software
freedom movement.
What is a shill?
A shill is an associate of a person selling goods or services
I think that description of a shill is fairly accurate myself (but then, I
don't think I always fall under the WP NPOV guidelines! ;)
Now then, all this discussion regarding MS, DRM, fair use, more DRM, Apple,
Windows, more DRM etc... I find hugely interesting, and I even take part in
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