Kathleen Charters and Lawrence Charters
Explorations large and small
Everyone wants to be recognized for something. This has resulted in an explosion of different ways to be recognized, ranging from spending money to get your own trophy (or get your name engraved on a brick, or monogrammed shirts, or…) Continue reading Awards and Honors
Spam has become epidemic. Corporations and government agencies report that 80-95% of all email they get is spam: unsolicited messages either trying to sell something, or attempting to steal something of value (corporate or government secrets, confidential or private information), or Continue reading SMS Spam
One of the biggest problems with allowing comments on a blog is: robotic commenting. Otherwise known as: spam. Spammers are often thought of as “people,” but are most often robots. The robots search for sites to spam, large and small. Continue reading Great moments in blog spamming
I was just alerted to a new site, ackuna.com, that is promoting their crowd-source translation capabilities by showing how bad machine translation can be. To illustrate this, you type in some text, and their “Bad Translator” feature runs it back Continue reading Automatic translation
Twitter and Facebook are rank amateurs at recruiting followers.
What is this sign trying to tell me? And do I really want to know?
The U.S. government is on a plain language campaign. This isn’t the first; several decrees have gone out, dating back at least to the Civil War, suggesting, pleading and even demanding that those in government use plain language. Now, thanks Continue reading Plain language