Here is an example of what happens when you try to access practically any type of application: you get a message in a language they decided you should know - and it dumps you in the page of their choice - whatever else you may want to do.
I think Apple will be losing my custom pretty damn fast!

If you happen to live in a country speaking more than one language - or traveling - you are in trouble these days.

Everybody and his dog seems to be busy making websites detect your locale and serve content exclusively in what they think is the local language - never mind your choice, common sense or the other national languages.

Lots of websites - including Apple's App Store - serve information in a language you may not know, and stubbornly ignore whatever language settings you may have on your computer and in your browser. Even if it's an Apple computer and Apple software!

I've had the Neuros OSD for about a week now. I needed a way of moving videos from my PVR to more durable storage. My PVR, with a 200 GB hard disk, fills up very quickly, mainly because a high proportion of the storage eaten up by files I keep indefinitely.

David Wood and Nicoletta Iacobacci.

A midday business briefing on blogging.

Copyright needs to be protected and piracy punished, musicians have to be paid for their work. However, how can you rip-off people by the millions - legally?

1. Produce music people don't want to buy
2. Bribe, convince or just bully law makers to assume that everybody is a pirate and tax everybody indiscriminately every time they buy a hard disk or blank DVD
3. Presto, you have billions pouring in, without any work

And you thought you had to make the effort to sell the Brooklyn bridge or the Eiffel Tower?!

Open Source for media professionals, EBU Geneva 1-2 October 2007 organized by EBU training

Open Source software - some with features, like Ardour, which would be remarkable at any price.

The 19th International Festival of Photojournalism Visa pour l'Image  in Perpignan, France. Its main focus is photo-journalism. The festival is also an excellent opportunity for networking and meeting colleagues.

Photographer John D. McHugh speaks at the Frontline Club on his work in Afghanistan. John D was seriously injured after a few weeks into his embed with troops in Afghanistan.

Start of walk: In Diablerêts, take the bubble to Isenau.

There is a restaurant at the arrival of the bubble, good place for a snack or lunch. Other restaurants available during the walk.

TSR (Télévision Suisse Romande) web editor Bernard Rappaz sounds off on the web, media, etc. This week he comments in his blog (in French) about a book by Xavier Comtesse Economie directe, un outil de formation. Interesting book about the way companies offload an increasing proportion of their complex tasks on their clients via the web.