Share your thoughts By Nic Price on 27 September 2007 — 1 min read Share your thoughts Originally uploaded by Beatnic. More
Automatic accents By Nic Price on 24 September 2007 — 1 min read Do you have a lift at work? Does it have a male or female voice? Who decided that? Does a lift in Belfast have a different accent to a lift in Manchester, Falmouth or Glasgow? Should the automated announcements on trains change accent depending on which part of the country you’re in? More
Moving house, virtually By Nic Price on 17 September 2007 — 1 min read When you move house and send your change of address cards out, you probably only put your new address on the cards and not your old one. And if people want to send you a “Happy New Home” card they’ll need to copy down your new address on to an envelope. But when people change... More
Predictable By Nic Price on 14 September 2007 — 1 min read Predictive text for Unilever is Toileter. More
Workshop links By Nic Price on 7 September 2007 — 1 min read Today I attended a very informative workshop run by Tira Shubart and Jasmine Birtles. Below are a few links to some of the websites that were discussed: Business cards: gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards” MOO (you can use your Flickr photographs on your cards) Financial advice: Jasmine’s website Moneymagpie.com Quickly set... More
People thinking image search By Nic Price on 6 September 2007 — 1 min read An image search for “People Thinking” on Google comes up with some quite strange stuff… More
From edublogs: Six points for organisations entering the Live Web By Nic Price on 6 September 2007 — 1 min read edublogs: Six points for organisations entering the Live Web. Interesting post by Ewan McIntosh. Via Nick Reynolds at work. More
From BBC News: Parents warned of additives link By Nic Price on 6 September 2007 — 1 min read Watch out for… Sunset yellow (E110) – Colouring found in squashes Carmoisine (E122) – Red colouring in jellies Tartrazine (E102) – New colouring in lollies, fizzy drinks Ponceau 4R (E124) – Red colouring Sodium benzoate (E211) – Preservative Quinoline yellow (E104) – Food colouring Allura red AC (E129) – Orange / red food dye BBC... More
Farcebook By Nic Price on 30 August 2007 — 1 min read Facebook seems to be becoming a necessary evil. I’ve never felt particularly comfortable about it, but I do have an account and I do use it from time to time. Somewhat worryingly found out today (thanks Chris T) that unless you change your privacy settings anyone in your network can see all your information as... More
Count your opinions By Nic Price on 30 August 2007 — 1 min read Count your opinions Originally uploaded by Beatnic. So I thought I’d add my input to the survey being run by London Underground on personal safety at Elephant & Castle tube station. Unfortunately I didn’t understand how to use this “Opinionmeter” until I’d already started using it – at which point I had already mistakenly answered... More