Interactive Salon visits Brighton

Interactive Salon is a touring exhibition about new technologies and concepts for communication with visitors, in the context of cultural heritage.

The exhibition is showcasing projects from European research institutes, universities and museums that have been invited to demonstrate how new technology and concepts can improve visitors’ experiences in art, culture, and historical museums, science centers, and cultural heritage sites.

Webpage : http://www.tii.se/projects/interactivesalon

Visit the exhibition at the Jubilee Library, Jubilee Square, Brighton 27-29 November 2007

Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient by Allin Cottrell

Just found and read this opinion piece by Allin Cottrell, and as a user of LaTeX I find myself agreeing with it all.

After some intrest in #ubuntu-uk I’ve upload this example package which can be built via the makefile (once latex is installed of course)  Also this LaTeX blog might be useful.

BBC Claims Only 400-600 Linux Users Visit the bbc.co.uk Domain!

I noticed the other day that Ashley Highfield rolled out some figures for the number of Linux users who visit bbc.co.uk which can be found here.

“We have 17.1 million users of bbc.co.uk in the UK and, as far as our server logs can make out, 5 per cent of those [use Macs] and around 400 to 600 are Linux users.”

When compared to the W3C statistics (EDIT it’s been pointed out to me that these are stats from visitors to w3schools.com) for OS which shows Mac and Linux usage to be within 0.5% you have to wonder why there is such a big gap between the pair for the BBC’s stats. In Ashley’s blog posting over here, he blames this low figure on the reporting system they use. Clearly this figure is wrong! An analysis of this by a former employee of Ashley can be found here.

In the mean time there is a facebook group for people who use Linux and visit the bbc.co.uk domain which already has over 600 members and an online petition which has over 1100.