 Hi again,
This week, a British diplomat's blog had to be pulled after insulting comments were posted by readers. Ian Proud wrote about living in Thailand on the site of The Nation newspaper, but as soon as the blog went live, it filled up with remarks from people who, for example, claimed to have seen the diplomat in Bangkok's red light district. Tim O'Reilly, meanwhile, has drawn up a code of conduct, which can be amended by bloggers around the world.
Google's new payment service, Google Checkout, has launched in the UK. While some researchers are sceptical that it's a "PayPal killer", the new service has already led to lots of offers and competitions from online payment services since its US launch last June.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is trying to fix a proposed new directive that aims to harmonise European copyright laws, which could turn thousands of EU citizens and businesses into "copycriminals". The EFF says: "IPRED2's new crime of 'aiding, abetting and inciting' infringement again takes aim at innovators, including open source coders, media-sharing sites like YouTube, and ISPs that refuse to block P2P services." The European Parliament is voting on it on 24 April, and you can sign a petition here: www.copycrime.eu/petition.
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/How we built/ Clickdensity.com
Dozens of web apps appear every year to help businesses with productivity, but few are aimed at web analytics. Dan Zambonini explains how Clickdensity became a vital tool
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/The Accessibility Test/ Access all areas
There’s always a way to improve your site’s user experience. This issue, Nomensa’s Alastair Campbell looks at text-sizing widgets.
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/JavaScrip/ Toggling content visibility
Clean, well-structured JavaScript can help you conserve space on your web pages by hiding some of the content, as Steve Tucker demonstrates
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/Event/ XTech 2007 – 15 - 18 May, 2007
XTech 2007 - which takes place in Paris at the Novotel Paris Tour Eiffel - is the premier European conference for developers, information designers and managers working with web and standards-based technologies. The theme for this year’s conference is ‘The Ubiquitous Web’, and will cover the web's growing reach into our lives, the increasing ubiquity of connectivity and the blurring between virtual worlds and our own. You can register online at 2007.xtech.org/public/content/register |
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