First Monday March 2007Always worth a look. (Hey! I know it isn’t the first Monday of March, but the email notice just came today!)
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REST Issues, Real and Imagined
I think that most of the debate about REST focuses on the wrong things, leading developers down the garden path at the expense of their productivity and the success of their projects.
by mnot's — And he goes on to enumerate a bunch of red herrings and finally some real issues.
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Results of mind mapping software survey
- Two-thirds of respondents said the biggest benefit of mind mapping software is that it helps them to clarify their thinking.
- Roughly two-thirds of users of mind mapping software also create hand-drawn mind maps.
Innovation Weblog — These two points seem obvious to me but… Anyway, I participated in the survey. The results of the survey are probably most interesting if you know something about mindmapping, however there is a list of resources at the end, and the innovationtools.com site is worth a look.
CmapToolsFurther to the mind mapping survey I just mentioned… CmapTools is my favourite mind mapping software. Well, strictly speaking, CmapTools is a (free) concept mapping tool, a related but slightly different thing. In particular, a concept map can have loops and labelled connections, both of which I use a lot. There is a ton of information on this site.
The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters)
The dawn of the web has frequently been compared to the invention of the printing press. But the web has also destroyed one of the greatest features of nearly every press since Gutenberg: the ability to publish pleasing type.
A List Apart — This is a nice discussion of the usage of some of the trickier punctuation on the web.
Five Simple Steps to better typographyby Mark Boulton — Explains the details of typography and how it works on the web, and tells a bit of the history.
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - a practical guide to web typographyA lot of information about typography on the web.
Web Typography SucksA nice presentation with some really nice examples of how the recommendations improve things.
GigaOM Free: a Tactic, not a Business Model
The lie of the Web 2.0 bubble is that free is the way to succeed in the new economy. That’s not true. The rules of economics have not changed. The best way to make money in the new economy, in the Web 2.0 economy, comes down to the same fundamental business model that has always existed: create something of value for people who will pay for it.
by Anne Zelenka at GigaOM — This article is getting quite a lot of well deserved attention.
The Difficulty of Profiling Terrorists
A recently completed Dutch study of 242 Islamic radicals convicted or accused of planning terrorist attacks in Europe from 2001 to 2006 found that … “There is no standard jihadi terrorist in Europe”
via Schneier on Security — so profiling can’t work in Europe. Good.
Wrongly jailed men lose 'living expenses' case
Michael and Vincent Hickey’s convictions were quashed by the court of appeal in 1997 after 18 years in prison and they were awarded 990,000 and 506,220 respectively - subject to 25% deductions for their saved “board and lodgings” expenses. … [The only dissenting lord in their appeal of the 25% expense] said it was not hard to see why the men would feel that they were in effect paying for their keep during the long years when they were wrongly deprived of their liberty.
Guardian Unlimited — No kidding.
There are allegations that coercive sterilisation was used to curb the traditionally high fertility rate among the Roma. … The practice officially ended in 1990 after the collapse of communist Czechoslovakia, but a number of doctors are said to have continued the operations on their own initiative.
BBC News
American imams sue US Air forremoving them from flightCNN — What do you expect them to do?
Evangelical Christians attack use of torture by US
The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), which represents about 45,000 churches across America, endorsed a declaration against torture drafted by 17 evangelical scholars.
Guardian Unlimited — Too bad it took so long, but this is a good thing I think.
