Links for 2005-08-30
- Matt Locke does some black & white portraits of the usual suspects (plus Ted Nelson) at this year's Open Tech Webb comes off looking best, as usual. I look like a dribbling freak...
- The Dutch version of Big Brother is proposing to have a pregnant woman give birth on the show... I suppose we haven't quite got to those extremes yet. The woman apparently believe the child will be proud of their on-screen birth later in life...
- More4 - the new channel from Channel4 - is commissioning new shows at the moment Apparently it will launch later in the year on Satellite, Freeview and Cable and will feature The Daily Show, West Wing and new drama / documentaries...
- Some users of Flickr are more than a little pissed at the Yahoo acquisition. The whole thing is very interesting. Don't know what I think about it quite yet... "A splinter faction of Flickr photo-sharing community members is threatening a symbolic "mass suicide" to protest closer integration with the website's new owner, Yahoo"
- An interesting block of feedback on getting a computer-naive parent to switch to a Mac I'm particularly fascinated by this one as I'm trying to get my family to convert to an iBook at the moment. I wonder if they'll be able to do it...
Comments
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Just after i bought my first laptop (and first mac), i bought a ibook for my computer-illiterate mom. She just loves it. And I'm sure it wouldn't be the same when I installed her GNU/Linux.
→ Posted by: Igor at August 30, 2005 7:28 AM
I convinced my Windows using mum to get an iBook (she's very design concious so she just had to look at it to be convinced) and she seems to have found the transition a very easy one to make, mainly because it does the things that she wants to do , digital photos, music etc very easily out of the box, compared to her old Windows machine.
→ Posted by: tom at August 30, 2005 9:42 AM
I also got my Mum to use an iBook as her first computer. It's perfect for web browsing, emailing and dealing with digital photos. She's really pleased that she has now mastered all that and is already looking to do more advanced things. To say she has never used a computer before in her life, this is amazing!
→ Posted by: paulyg at August 30, 2005 10:26 PM
the Dutch child protection agency is now determining whether or not this whole Big Brother malarky falls under child labour (no pun intended).
→ Posted by: Martin Wisse at September 1, 2005 9:38 PM