Interesting Stuff 2008-09-23
At the blog for Scripting Enabled ("a two day conference and workshop aimed at making the web a more accessible place"), some slides from a talk from the Beeb:
Jonathan Hassell of the BBC did a joint presentation with Phil Teare on the impacts and symptoms of dyslexia on web design and usability. Jonathan goes through the results of a BBC research and gives some tips on how to not block out dyslexic users completely.
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Security writer Graham Cluley picks up on this Telegraph piece about spam received by subscibers to the mailing list for Electric Proms and adds:
Long time followers of news on the Sophos website will know that this is not the first time that a BBC mailing list has sent an unauthorised message. Five years ago, ardent fans of The Archers, the world's longest running drama serial, were accidentally sent a copy of the Sobig worm.
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Another Interesting Stuff; another interesting conference write-up from Backstage's Rain Ashford [see previous]. This one's from the Google Developer Day at Wembley Stadium, with notes and pics at the Backstage Blog.
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From the abstracts for PyCon UK, two talks by BBC Research's Michael Sparks:
Kamaelia is designed as a toolkit for making concurrent software systems that are maintainable using a component based approach very similar to Unix pipelines. It was originally designed for use in a network systems environment and so is designed with systems that are naturally highly concurrent in mind - mainly from the perspective of trying to make it simple to comprehend unknown systems.
Update 2008-09-24: After some Yammering with Michael, we can now see the slides:
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Finally, now that everything the BBC broadcasts gets its own permanent page, which ones are people twittering about?
- Excellent play on BBC R3: https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dkvqt (mflavin)
- wishes we could get more BBC programmes in Canada, especially this one about Stonehenge - https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7625145.stm (paul_henman)
- Brecht-Weill "Mahagonny" on Radio 3: https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dk49w (defjaf)
- Listening to Psmith in the City on the BBC: https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00djjpn (seabright)
- BBC Four今晚要放Roxy Music紀錄片，要錄影。https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00djn0s (shihlun)
- Katy Perry covered MGMT Electric Feel acoustic. https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dcqnm fast forward the player to 2:26. LOVES it. (gurj)
- https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00df61v Listen again here to my debate with Anthony Grayling last night on Radio 3, on 'humanism'. (RupertRead)
- just watched this https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dmpd2 Gawd bless humph :-( (squaccs)
- one more day to watch the manc music fest on iplayer https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00d9g2x (dangermain)
- Watching episode 1 of Earth: The Climate Wars (https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00djvq9) thanks to Usenet since I don't have an actual TV (deepthinking)
Alan Connor is co-editor, BBC Internet Blog.
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