Ribbit Films sells Chroma Key Stock Footage. Neat idea: you can buy real film clips to add to any location / shots that you choose. Think of this like stock photography and then Photoshop for video.
Monthly Archive for September, 2005
Direct mail frameworks for government should help e-government take-up. Wow. I hadn’t expected that!
Ian’s Shoelace Site shows how to tie a more even wearing knot, and faster too. Gotta love it.
The State of Project Management has some nice one-liners: I liked this one
The “90/90 Rule” of project schedules goes like this: the first 90 percent of a project takes 90 percent of the time and effort; the remaining 10 percent of the project takes the other 90 percent of the time and effort.
Whitehall Efficiency Targets a ‘Distraction’. Apparently the centre hasn’t explained what’s going on effectively enough. Over to you, Sue?
Schools Open Up to Single Sign-On. This is based on a very sensible solution which passes “he’s allowed to see financial stuff” type messages around, rather than passwords. I wonder what it does to Government Connect?
� The Web-based Office will have its day says ZDNet. It could work, but it is such a pain when you don’t have access to the net. Roll on fully-connected access.
The Wikitosh has MustHaveSoftware. I have a surprising number of these already. There are more examples here.
In a beautiful irony, the National Do Not Call Registry carried out a random phone survey of people who had signed up to see whether they were getting fewer calls now. Can you imagine the ethical dilemma? How did they manage to get through (I just ignore most phone calls)?