Helpful distortion

Design is knowing what not to include as much as what to include. In the case of subway maps, is it more important to know how the tracks actually bend - or to know how to get from one place to another.

Lessig says that the presidential debates should be creative commons licensed

I whole heartedly agree. Not only that, I think the government should pay for it and throw it all online in a neutral format. Maybe, since no candidate actually accepts the money I keep allocating in my tax form, we could use it for something like this?

URGENT URGENT PLZ READ B4 OTHERS VERY …

WOW. Hard to believe this guy works in finance…

The obsolete Jeff Jarvis

That man continues to prove how out of touch he is. Completely blows the Calacanis/Vogelstein thing *way* out of proportion in order to prove some idiotic point about how A-list bloggers make journalists irrelevant. Or something.

Radically, transparently stupid

More on transparency and bloggers from Fake Steve. “The truth is, all this “radical transparency” and “naked conversation” horseshit from Rubel and Shel Israel and Robert Scoble is just a way for PR flacks to feel more important than they really are.“

Dan Gillmor has a more reasoned response to Interview-gate

Seriously, though, these bloggers sure are a humorless bunch.

Tidy up

Apple is looking for a Web 2.0 development manager

Skills should include PHP? Interesting indeed…

Brilliant. [via]

Honestly, I see Karl Rove more as The Penguin than The Joker.