Picked up on a post from an educational blog at eLearningpost about how we develop preferences.
Talking about another article itself, it’s suggests we prefer things that we remember over things we just know about.
The post is finsihed off with
To put it simply, if we have story to tell about the item, we are inclined [...]

Interesting post over at GapingVoid about making your product something that people want to talk about.
I enjoy reading Hugh’s blog, often entertaining, if a little eccentric, but this is one spot on post. Talking about viral marketing if you ask me.
What do you have to do, to get people, those you are trying to [...]

I mentioned recently about the BBC providing free downloads of Beethoven’s Symphonies.
Via PlasticBag I see that since it started, they have had over 600,000 requests for the files.
Kudos to the BBC for offering the service, the stuff they are doing at the moment with the web has them firmly in my good books. Could [...]

I’ve previously defended the implementation of laws to try and force people into building accessible web sites. My view is that, if you don’t make people do it, many won’t bother off their own back. They don’t want to put the effort in to learn how to do it, and don’t think it’s [...]

[quote]To understand why Steve Jobs fired IBM you need to look no further than the Lenovo Thinkpad T41 Tablet PC.[/quote]
[quote]But, it all comes down to performance. This new [Lenovo] machine is using a very fast Intel processor that uses very little power, and generates very little heat.
That’s something that IBM wasn’t able to give Steve [...]

From Kottke

a number of people worried about … Apple losing out on future hardware sales when OS X can run on a $300 PC available at Wal-Mart.

And that’s a problem because?

As part of the new Creative Archive set up by the BBC, Channel 4, the British Film Industry and the Open University, you will be able to legally download all of Beethoven’s symphonies for free after they are played on Radio 3.

OK, so I’ve done a bit of listening to some podcasts, mostly from Adam Curry, though also a few others, and I’ve got a few comments….

Nothing at all to do with web design, other than the fact it’s running on Wordpress, but I thought I’d mention my other blog anyway.
As I recently changed hosts, and got the opportunity to setup some subdomains, I thought I’d use one for another blog, and to do something with all the email jokes I’ve [...]