City of Bits Blog

Sound and visionThese days I'm generating far more data on Flickr and on Last.fm than I am here. Does that say something about a change in balance between the visual, sound, and the written word, i...

Windows LiveThis results display for Windows Live Beta is questionable. The 'scroll bar' to the right seems to be a little short of the usual functionality. How do I know where I am? There doesn't ...

Cambridge conference in AprilThe Intelligent Environments Group at Microsoft Research Cambridge has organised the International Symposium on Intelligent Environments for 5-7 April. The keynote spea...

DRM = bad user experienceInteresting piece at Sterophile of why DRM is a bad idea for everyone including consumers, in their coverage of a speech by Dave Goldberg, general manager of Yahoo Music, a...

Audio transcription utilitiesResearchers often find that standard tools don't meet their needs: digital audio devices that can record are often designed primarily for sound reproduction of prerecor...

Doors of Perception 9John Tahackara has just announced that the next Doors of Perception (Doors 9) will take place in India in 2007.

PAS 78 launchPAS 78: Guide to Good Practice in Commissioning Accessible Websites, commissioned by the Disability Rights Commission, will be launched at an event in Hammersmith, London on March 8......

Remote controlsThe Squeezebox 3 is a lovely product, but I wonder what possessed them with the remote (left hand side). It's an integral part of the product, but doesn't seem to have been treated w...

Blog falls apartYes, the archives are a complete mess. I am also, as always, highly dissatisfied with - the lack of - certain developments at Blogger HQ. So what was with the great Google takeover?...

Upcoming vs. Eventful for eventsIn response to my last post, about Upcoming, I've just had an email from Mark Vanderbeeken in Turin, who points out that Eventful's feature set is better than that o...