11 September 2002

Audio blogging shows why speak-the-web does not work Mitch Ratcliffe's excellent piece on audio blogging illustrates the reason why a "speak the web" notion of voice services won't work that well. Horses for courses. Use determines form, content should become versioned appropriately (hmmm, although to be honest most rodcorp content is inappropriately presented for any medium). The key exception to this is accessibility, where a screen reader may need to read out content designed for the screen. 11:53:52 AM     comments

Air passenger jailed for using mobile pour encourager les autres. Related: can mobiles bring down planes? (answer: fly in new planes, 777s or Airbuses). And what about mobile phones causing explosions at petrol stations?: inconclusive. 10:27:00 AM     comments