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YES PLEASE! Small Claims Court for Copyright Infringement

Congress has requested the US Copyright office look into setting up a small claims court system for small time copyright infringement. Get involved!

Posted in Action!, Design Ethics, Actions & Impact, Design History, Editorial, Mad Props, Notification, Stuff To Do, Vocation & Profession

Maintain Your Privacy on the Web

The answer, of course, is to legislate. (Kidding…) Set your privacy settings, use Firefox with a blocker such as PrivacySuite from Abine at home, read about the issue here and here as well as listen to this little podcast at

Posted in Action!, Fiddling & Time Wasters, Technical Geekery, Useful Code

Web Accessibility Initiative

Designers need to comment now on accessibility guidelines for web and mobile platforms and authoring tools.

Posted in Accessibility, Action!, Design Ethics, Actions & Impact, Design Theory, Mad Props, Stuff To Do, Technical Geekery, Web

Don’t Pin Me To A Wall!

As content creators, we should at least know how to stop Pinterest from copying our intellectual property– whether we choose to stop it or not.

Posted in Action!, Design Ethics, Actions & Impact, Education, Stock, Technical Geekery, Tutorial, Vocation & Profession, Web

Staring Mike Daisey as Upton Sinclair

Maybe he didn’t see it all himself, but if it’s documented fact, why are we quibbling?

Posted in Action!, Design Ethics, Actions & Impact