• An Olive Branch To Jamie Leigh

    Thursday, shortly after posting Ban Jamie Leigh From Blogs, I received a nasty e-mail from Miss Leigh. It was disjointed and disorganized, contained several junior high level attempts at personal attack, made little sense, and redressed a few things that I never said. I wondered if maybe it was based on a form letter she…

  • Ban Jamie Leigh From Blogs

    I call upon the blogosphere to ban Jamie Leigh from blogs. Report her to MT-Blacklist so that her URL, jamieleigh.net, and her name are banned from commenting on MT blogs. Bloggers using other systems should do the same. I have already banned her permanently from the Saturday Slant and my site, but she continues to…

  • 81% of Websites Inaccessible to Disabled, So Is The Report That Says So

    Illustration from the DRC Easy Read Summary of the report. © Copyright DRC. Silicon.com reports: “ An investigation into the accessibility of the internet has slammed the majority of websites for being unusable for disabled would-be web surfers. Deaf, blind and dyslexic users are all being let down badly by the majority of website designers…

  • My New Project: The Magazine Design Blog

    The Magazine Design Weblog After weeks of planning, my new project, the Magazine Design Weblog, Weblogs, Inc.’s newest commercial blog, is live as of 9:00 PT this morning. I’m very excited about this new, first of its kind, weblog. The Magazine Design Weblog focuses on news, information, and opinions specific to the unique magazine publishing…

  • Save A Chat Log… Go To Prison?

    SecurityFocus: Chat, Copy, Paste, Prison “ You are engaged in a chat session with some friends and colleagues, when one of them makes a witty remark or imparts a pithy bit of information. You hit CTRL-A and select the conversation, then copy it to a document that you save. Under a little-noticed decision in a…

  • Putting 40,000 Readers, One by One, on a Cover

    Variable Data Publishing (VDP) proof-of-concept puts a satellite photo of all 40,000 subscribers’ neighborhood on their individual copies of Reason magazine. The New York Times is carrying a story about Reason, the monthly Libertarian magazine. The June issue ofReason will arrive on subscribers’ doorsteps with a surprise on the cover: The subscriber’s house. Reason, June…