December 26, 2003
Disenfranchised by design: voting systems and the election process 
"Susan Roth describes two studies in Franklin County, Ohio. In the first, the mechanical lever voting machine was compared with an 'electronic ballot' device in which switches are embedded in a surrounding print-out. The second study examined the punch-card ballot, not that dissimilar to the system which has cause so much fuss in Palm Beach County in recent days."
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December 1, 2003
The Document Triangle 
"Every paper and digital document shares three basic dimensions: structure, information and presentation." - A lecture given by Peter J. Bogaards at the University of Amsterdam.
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