a visual vocabulary for IA etc. Visio stencils, etc.
Archive for July, 2003
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.
Bloglines is a server-based RSS aggregator.
Joe Firmage (who once claimed a connection with visitors from outer space) is trying to buildthe PBS of the web. It’s a good idea, and doesn’t encroach on mine and Dom’s plan. Phew.
Next LS elections only with EVMs discusses the recent decision for India to go all-electronic voting - they’ll need nearly a million voting machines. Astonishing.
Gateway Pages Prevent PDF Shock sees Jakob Nielsen grudgingly accept PDFs and relegate them to several clicks behind the front pages.
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.
The EFF: RIAA Subpoena Database allows you to check if your IP has been Subpoenaed by the RIAA.
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.
The CAB has responded to the OeE’s intermediary consultation paper.
Their three key areas are:
- common method of authentication
- making and tracking claims
- appearance and usability of online forms
We touch on two of these (not authentication) in LAWs. Joined-up government? Surely not.
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.
Introduction to the Fishbowl Process - an open source development process used by Zope. Looks interesting.
Pricing new products has McK telling us we price too low in most cases.
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 Goes Online shows a strange disconnect between consumer sophistication and usage of government services online. The UK is low at 13% reach, which makes some sense, but to have South Korea at 23% is astonishing.
Bletter for Better eNewsletters a simple form-based interface to developing full-scale HTML/plain email newsletters. It looks interesting, and is free for non-commercial use.
An email-around that caught my attention (NB these can’t all be true / confirmed, but they sound plausible):
> The next time you are washing your hands and complain
> because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it,
> think about how things used to be.
>
> Here are some facts about the 1500s:
>
> Most people got married in June because they took their
> yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June.
> However, they were starting to smell so brides carried a
> bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom
> today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
Continue reading ‘Facts? about the 1500s’
What causes dimples? asked Yahoo and answered that it’s a classical Mendelian dominant-recessive pair. Who’d have thought it?
eGov monitor: Comments on the Treasury’s review of the use of PFI in public sector IT projects. Some boilerplate stuff there, interspersed with some good information.
e-Government @ Local IEGs has the new IEG3 proforma.
