Contented Enterprises is one year old. Actual birthday is 13 September but Alice and I celebrated today by giving each other an armful of flowers and a birthday cake. We intend to be Contented for many years to come. But...
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United States Embassy web site: thumbs down
The Plain English Awards ceremony 2008 last Thursday celebrated heroes of plain English in New Zealand. Four categories are for web sites, and web content is a big factor in other categories too. The United States Embassy in Wellington was...
Updating accessibility standards for the blind
The lineup of speakers for Webstock 2009 was announced last Tuesday night. Impressive and fun: check it out on Webstock's gorgeous new web site! As part of this week's mini-Webstock, Jonathan Mosen updated us on the basics of web content...
The cockroach of language styles
Why does gobbedygook live on and on, generation after generation? It refuses to die a natural death. Bureaucratic style persists even though the benefits of plain English have been proven again and again. (Plain English saves money and time —...
Hip-hop collides with particle physics
Have trouble getting your head around particle physics and particle colliders at CERN? Suffer no more. The wonderful Kate McAlpine reduces the whole story to a hip-hop rap that's drawn half a million viewers already on YouTube. Is Kate McAlpine,...