https://joe-pearson.me/tags/browsers/ Recent content in browsers on My Perspective Hugo en-us Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:32:00 +0000 https://joe-pearson.me/2008/10/16/Can-This-Watchdog-Sniff-Media-Bias-NYTimes-com/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:32:00 +0000 https://joe-pearson.me/2008/10/16/Can-This-Watchdog-Sniff-Media-Bias-NYTimes-com/ <p>Article about spinspotter.com and their Spinoculars tool that allows people to report bias in articles and offer corrections that can be voted on.  It has potential.</p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/arts/television/16spin.html?_r=2&amp;ref=arts&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin">Can This Watchdog Sniff Media Bias? - NYTimes.com</a></p> https://joe-pearson.me/2008/09/02/Google-Chrome-Crashes-on-Flash-based-Weather-Map/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:01:00 +0000 https://joe-pearson.me/2008/09/02/Google-Chrome-Crashes-on-Flash-based-Weather-Map/ <p>Well it didn’t take long to wipe the shiny off of the Chrome.  When Google said that they had developed new ways to automate user actions in the browser, and that they had tested it on all of the top sites, I actually believed them.  I should have seen their caveat that they couldn’t fill out forms as a warning sign.</p> <p>What do you think a common user action is for people when there are three active tropical storms in the Atlantic?  Why, they go to <em>weather.com</em> and view an animated map.  Doesn’t it strike you as exceedingly strange that Google’s testing didn’t account for something that … normal?</p>