Archive for September, 2005

Banks; unsophisticated web designers

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Banks go to some trouble these days to make their branches welcoming. Less effort seems to go into their web sites. I want to contrast three experiences I had trying to get some documentation off a bank; Westpac in this case.
1. Telephone. Very, very bad experience. The whole service is set up to handle existing […]

Pandora

Monday, September 5th, 2005

While the radio industry braces for the full effects of podcasting (reduced time spent listening, competitive content outside of the licensing system etc) they risk missing the newest threat: Pandora. You can try it for no cost until the end of September.
Pandora lets you build your own radio station on the net. You start […]

Privacy and the departing executive

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

Journalist Margo Kingston recently quit her job at the Sydney Morning Herald (a Fairfax company) and moved her blog to an independent website: webdiary.com.au.
On the 23rd of August a client of mine received 13 unsolicited emails from that website. The contents of the emails suggested that a lot of people who had commented on the […]