Uneasy Rhetoric

Verizon has a new phone, the Migo. The phone has only four programmable buttons and an emergency button. It is targeted at parents who want to keep in touch with their children but don’t want to give them the responsibility of a real cell phone.
It’s probably a good idea - certainly a better one than [...]

I just got finished reading highlights from the latest Digital Future Project report from the USC Annenberg School’s Center for the Digital Future. The findings are mildly surprising: 39.8 percent if Internet users agree that going online can give people more political power while 61.7 percent of respondents, which includes both Internet users and [...]

There’s a rumor that Yahoo Mail will expand their beta test. I haven’t listened yet, but I hear the rumor comes from this podcast interview with Ethan Diamond and Scott Gatz from Yahoo (Ethan was formerly one of the Oddpost gurus).
One way to (maybe) get in on the action is to sign up here [...]

Jakob Nielsen posts Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes. Here’s a bit of transparency for you. I’m going to go down the list and analyze my own site. I’ll also make snarky editorial comments because I think the article, to some degree, misses the point. His advice would be spot-on [...]

Lifehacker posts about a Windows utility called PureText that sits in your Windows tray and lets you define a keystroke combination to paste unformatted text. Currently, such an action must be done via the Edit menu in most programs.
This is a cool function, and kudos to the programmer. But I need yet another [...]