MacWorld Conference website…Ouch.

MacWorld IT PDFWith my best sarcasm voice: ‘IDG has really outdone themselves again with their stellar MacWorld Expo website this year.’ To say nothing of the issues with the code (the footer was in the middle of all the pages a week or so ago), but the site itself is so hard to use. I’m attending the MacIT Conference again this year, and I’d love to have a PDF to download so I can read through the descriptions and figure out my schedule. Instead the only way to get this info is to click through each link on the site, either back and forth or via a bunch of browser tabs. You’d think downloading the “MacIT Conference-@-a-Glance” PDF would be useful, but what you get is a PDF print out of a schedule produced in Excel. No information about conferences at all aside from their start and stop times. It’s painfully obvious, the whole thing was put together with a shoestring budget, but why? Are Expos going the way of the dinosaur, or is it just bad management? Or both? It’s hard to say, but complicating such a simple task isn’t helping anyone. This site could stand a healthy dose of Web 2.0, stat!

TechScorn

TechScorn is now iPhone-ready thanks to the handy iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme! The guys over at Content Robot frickin’ rock. Thanks guys!

Upcoming RSS Choking on Spam

Most Upcoming users may not even notice the war that’s raging behind the scenes at this very minute. However, being the RSS junkie that I am, it’s painfully obvious. You see, on the web-side, it looks like Upcoming is doing a good job of keeping the site spam free. Unfortunately it appears their RSS pipe, which I use daily to find new events in San Francisco, is passing along each and every spam event that’s entered.

Upcoming Spam

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Street View Sub-Contractor?

Street View Sub-Contractor?, originally uploaded by chrisr.

Spotted this vehicle today on the way to Molly Stones. I’m guessing it’s for creating the pano photos for Google’s Street View, but perhaps someone else is deploying something similar. Earthmine.com has nothing beyond login and email links. The domain is registered to some dude in San Francisco at a company called SurfaceWise.

Comment on!

raise your handSo I’ve switched from super-paranoid mode to a lot less paranoid, but still in control mode for blog comments. So have it! Do your worst!