- Think Progress — The legacy of Bush’s presidency.: This “are you better off?” chart comparing January 2001 to the present (big version here) is an explicitly partisan document produced by the Democratic Caucus. It’s full of statistics, which probably makes some voters’ eyes glaze over. Nonetheless: it’s a pretty devastating indictment.
- The real reason Google’s clicks are flat (Skrentablog): You know those recent headlines about Google’s ad growth slowing? Rich Skrenta says this was the result of Google tweaking the design of its ads, reducing the clickable space to reduce bad (i.e. mistaken) clicks.
- Is software too soft? — Jon Udell:
…Nobody ever gets into a car and asks: “Hey, where’d the steering wheel go?” Software is essentially metamorphic, and none of us — if we’re honest — can deal very well with that… Sometimes I wonder if computer interfaces simply have too many degrees of freedom for most people to ever really be comfortable with. And if handhelds will become ascendant not only because the devices are mobile, but also because the interfaces aren’t so aggressively metamorphic.
Apple is doing its best to turn handheld interfaces into easily-metamorphosing software…
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