In the [Adobe] air tonight

A simple question from Ben Laurie:

there is no DRM on the broadcast signal, nor was there on old-fashioned video tapes. Why are downloads different? Why is it not sufficient to rely on the law, as has always happened in the past? Why not assume that your users are mostly honest rather than treat them like criminals?

This amongst his comments following a hand-wringing interview by a BBC staffer with Ashley Highfield, who's the man in charge of the Beeb's danged iPlayer thing.

Listen again, anyone?

NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

There is a petition here: http://www.noooxml.org/petition.

What do web designers know about typography?

From Steven Coles at Typographica.org (via the open font library list):

In general, web designers aren’t typographers. Their specialty is in the realms of interface, hierarchy, and navigation. Their training does not include making decisions about what typeface to use for long passages of text.

Wouldn't take much to learn, though, would it? And is the information about the training web designers have an assertion of fact or merely a deduction?