Tim Worstall

New Blog on the Block

Something a little different has just turned up.

Wanabehuman.

A group blog looking at serious and weighty matters…..and here’s the kicker. The people behind it (no, it’s not a BBC project, this is private, their own time stuff) are at the BBC Monitoring Unit. So, if you contribute to the blog they’ll edit your piece up to the usual BBC standards.

Now that ought to be an incentive to all the Biased BBC guys, right?

Slightly more seriously, looks like to could develop into something good. Check it out as they say.

(On the subject of editing…isn’t it "wanna" not "wana" ?)

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  1. BishopHill Avatar
    BishopHill

    They could get rid of the irritating music though…

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  2. Professor Froward Avatar
    Professor Froward

    Hey, if you’re going to force music on visitors homepage-circa-1996-styleee, you may as well go whole hawg and do all your text in giant bright yellow and acid-green boldface on a black twinkly-star background, with one of those rotating-pencil gifs for the “email me” link. Maybe a few blink tags, to harry any visitors determined enough to make it past the green-on-black stuff. “Defense in depth” I think that’s called.
    Oh, wait, they’ve got a perfectly gratuitous horrible animated flash banner (Thank God for AdBlock) and some crawl text. Who needs blink tags when you’ve got Flash? It’s 1996 all over again!
    Wankers. Never a thought for usability.
    Motion attracts the eye. It’s distracting. We evolved that feature back when things that moved were mostly either dangerous or edible. Their banner is neither, so why do they care about it? Why should I? What kind of an organism do they take me for?
    Nothing says “don’t waste your time here” like a screen full of wiggling animated crap frantically demanding your attention. It’s like walking into a preschool with an espresso machine.

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  3. John East Avatar
    John East

    I gave it a quick look. I had quite a few windows open at the time and it took me about 5 minutes to find where the bloody irritating music was coming from. The blog looked OK, but stuff the music. I won’t be going there again.

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