Taxonomy of communications

Taxonomy of Communications is an interesting start. He’s trying to discover what works in terms of interpersonal communications through a taxonomy of the different types. His taxonomy is skewed, but still an interesting start.

PDF grudgingly accepted

Gateway Pages Prevent PDF Shock sees Jakob Nielsen grudgingly accept PDFs and relegate them to several clicks behind the front pages.

OeE web guidelines

Thanks to headshift for the link to the OeE’s Web guidelines. I’ll be helping to produce a LAWs-based subset of these guidelines in the next few months, so I guess I better get reading.

AmIPirateOrNot

The EFF: RIAA Subpoena Database allows you to check if your IP has been Subpoenaed by the RIAA.

Survey Tool

Marketing Survey Tool was the only free LAMP survey tool I could find that allowed branching, etc. The admin interface is really nasty, but it works, and that’s all we really care about.

Banksy rocks

Banksy rocks. Clever graffiti moves me in mysterious ways. I love the rat chopping its escape shaft. Here’s a how to guide. And some more banksy turf war pictures.

Government should (be able to) ask for open source

El Reg runs a great article explaining that governments should (be able to) ask for open source solutions. This isn’t anti-competitive, quite the opposite. If Microsoft doesn’t want to bid on this kind of contract, then so be it.