• 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…

  • Greatest Post On Quark vs. InDesign Ever

    Would I like to see competition remain in the layout application market? Yes, whole-heartedly. Quark, Inc. only got as good as it did because it began as an upstart competitor to PageMaker. But I also believe in reaping what you sow. Quark, Inc. has stepped on its users and ignored them for so long because…

  • National Chains Shave Employees’ Hours, Wages

    From the New York Times: Altering of Worker Time Cards Spurs Growing Number of Suits “ Experts on compensation say that the illegal doctoring of hourly employees’ time records is far more prevalent than most Americans believe. The practice, commonly called shaving time, is easily done and hard to detect–a simple matter of computer keystrokes–and…