Excellent guidelines for writing readable regulations are published by the U.S. Federal Register. It's so nice when government organisations make resources like this available to the general public as well as their own staff. I hate think of the money...
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Posts tagged "E-government"
Selecting a patron... yay!
When I was a kid I used to wonder what a 'patron' was. Having a patron for a voluntary organisation like the Girl Guides seemed gratuitious if not smarmy at the time. So why am I grinning inanely today? Plain...
100 banned words cause an uproar
In Britain, the Local Government Association published a list of 100 words that public bodies should not use if they want to communicate effectively. That was on National Plain English Day, 11 December 2007. (I know, I'm slow but I...
Analysis of candidates' sites cuts both ways
Examining the presidential candidates' web sites is a popular sport for which each journalist invents new rules. In some cases the analysis is skewed by the writer's politics... naturally, or where's the fun? These articles are a tiny sample. Dogood-design.com...
Web censorship proposed in Australia
AUSTRALIANS with internet connection could soon have their web content automatically censored. The restrictions are planned by the Federal Government to give greater protection to children from online pornography and violent websites. So reports Lachlan Heywood in the Courier Mail....