Google, Apple iPhone, Nintendo Wii

Earlier this month, Google's lead visual designer left the company, and shared some of the reasons for his departure: "When a company is filled with engineers, it turns to engineering to solve problems. Reduce each decision to a simple logic problem. Remove all subjectivity and just look at the data...that data eventually becomes a crutch for every decision, paralyzing the company and preventing it from making any daring design decisions."

Earlier this month, FaceBook changed the visual look and feel of its site layout, leading to ongoing and vociferous outrage from more than 600,000 of its engaged and loyal users, and counting: "[J]ust one newly voiced opinion from the company's 'Vote on the new Facebook layout' app, which seems in keeping with consensus among the 624,665 comments there so far: 'this one is really confusing.'"

Earlier this month, Twitter, perhaps the hottest of the hot social networks, revealed that it paid a mere $6 to acquire the "tweety bird" logo that introduces their service: "The bird on Twitter's home page, familiar to millions, is small, cute and fun, and implies communication and anticipation. One might say it's the perfect graphic for Twitter. Yet the company paid its designer at most $6, without attribution."

Besides being anecdotes from three of the trendiest and (arguably) increasingly influential technology companies of our day, they are stories of engineering cultures which pay scant heed to visual design and creativity. Instead of integrating visual design into their core product development strategies, it becomes something that gets tacked on after the process of turning out products has already begun. So goes it with engineers. Ultimately, I think that end-users and consumers pay the price, in that they receive less-than-optimal experiences and things that are not very pleasing aesthetically, perhaps even just plain ugly. At the end of the day, this will affect customer loyalty and hurt bottomline growth, because no one really wants to buy ugly, unless they have to because there's no other choice.

I'll give Google a little credit, in their self-published "Google User Experience" document, they call their visual style a "minimalist aesthetic," but when I read one of their own employees (now former), someone originally hired to raise Google's visual design to breakthrough levels, say: "Without a person at (or near) the helm who thoroughly understands the principles and elements of Design, a company eventually runs out of reasons for design decisions," all I can say of their minimalist aesthetic is: lip service. Their definition of minimal aesthetic is really shorthand for "no visual design at all." It's just not that important to them, it doesn't matter what label you slap on it, it's an afterthought, not a strategic initiative

Some will argue that in high technology companies, visual design really isn't that important, because what separates the winners from the losers in this game is superior engineering. To that, I also say: lip service. Technological excellence will get you a lead, but it won't sustain it, because everyone's technology is always improving; that competitor in your rear-view mirror is closer than you think. Innovation never sleeps. Still, the recent history of consumer technology is a nothing but a graveyard of superior know-how that's been beaten by lesser know-how. If you're old enough to remember videotape, recall the battle between Beta vs. VHS - the superior technology lost. Or what about a more contemporary example: the Nintendo Wii vs. XBox360 and PlayStation3? The latter two, with all of their CPUs and GPUs, raw computing-horsepower and ability to draw millions of polygons and render photorealistic vistas were supposed to crush the under-powered, toy-like Wii: but look what happened - the little videogame engine that could, did. Superior engineering doesn't always guarantee a winner. So if tech companies are to get an edge that goes beyond luring the best engineers away from the competition, why don't they take a closer look at visual design?

What happens in technology companies when visual design - and the deeply creative thinking it embodies - gets a seat at the big table with engineering? What happens when visual design is integrated into the product development process from Day One? I don't know for sure, but I think you end up with something like Apple's iPhone.

Since so many technology companies covet and would love to emulate the kind of phenomenal success Apple has had with the iPhone, maybe the time has come to begin taking visual design seriously. Perhaps now is the time to focus on transforming visual design into a competitive advantage, a way to build relevant differentiation into products. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and that makes beauty relevant. Without a focus on visual design, all a technology company can do is churn out products that have minimalist aesthetics, and that's just a euphemism for "ugly."

Customers know ugly when they see it. And it's not really a trigger for driving purchases, or a recipe for premium pricing. Did you notice, by the way, that Google, Facebook, and Twitter also have something else in common? They're all (currently) free.

Like I said before, people don't buy ugly. But they'll certainly scoop it up when it's free.

Want a business model? Sell beautiful.

1. Let's not get carried away with faux relationships
   (Advertising Age)
   Blogged: Wednesday, April 21, 2010
2. Web sales tax debate flares again
   (CIO.com)
   Blogged: Tuesday, April 20, 2010
3. Tracing the Journey of a Single Bit
   (Wired)
   Blogged: Tuesday, December 22, 2009
4. The Internet Is Dead (As An Investment)
   (Wall Street Journal/WSJ.com)
   Blogged: Sunday, July 19, 2009
5. Digital: Get-Rich-Quick Ads Steal Google's Brand Equity
   (Advertising Age)
   Blogged: Friday, June 26, 2009
6. Squatters Own 80% of Twitter
   (ShoeMoney blog)
   Blogged: Saturday, June 20, 2009
7. Dear Twitter: failure is not an option (for branding)
   Blogged: Sunday, April 12, 2009
8. DiggBar is a Howl of Desperation
   (Ted Dziuba blog)
   Blogged: Saturday, April 11, 2009
9. Google calls it 'minimalist aesthetic' but it's a euphemism for ugly
   (caught |n between blog)
   Blogged: Sunday, March 29, 2009
10. Guy Kawasaki Discloses Ghost Writers, Defuses Issue
    (davefleet blog)
    Blogged: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
11. Zappos CEO's shoes need a little more kick
    (CNET News)
    Blogged: Saturday, March 14, 2009
12. Social Media Goes to Court and Bites Users
    (B.L. Ochman's weblog)
    Blogged: Tuesday, February 3, 2009
13. The Social Brain Hypothesis or 150 meaningful relationships are enough
    (Tobias Escher at the OII blog)
    Blogged: Wednesday, January 28, 2009
14. Invading MySpace
    (TheRoot.com)
    Blogged: Sunday, December 14, 2008
15. Calm, Reasoned Analysis Of MySpace, And The Cretins That Flock To It
    (BusinessWeek.com)
    Blogged: Sunday, December 7, 2008
16. Who killed the blogosphere?
    (Rough Type Blog)
    Blogged: Monday, November 10, 2008
17. Spam gets 1 response per 12,500,000 emails
    (TechRadar UK)
    Blogged: Monday, November 10, 2008
18. How the CNN Holographic Interview System Works
    (Gizmodo)
    Blogged: Wednesday, November 5, 2008
19. Digital Dark Age May Doom Some Data
    (Tech News Watch)
    Blogged: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
20. Idiot Calls in Faux-Sick, Gets Busted by Facebook
    (TechDarling)
    Blogged: Saturday, October 25, 2008
21. Terrorist 'tweets'? US Army warns of Twitter dangers
    (Infowars)
    Blogged: Saturday, October 25, 2008
22. Quitting FriendFeed
    (rizzn's personal blog)
    Blogged: Friday, October 24, 2008
23. The intelligent cloud
    (Official Google Blog)
    Blogged: Sunday, September 21, 2008
24. Assembling your 'party': Five kinds of friends you should make on social networks
    (Andy De Soto blog)
    Blogged: Monday, August 18, 2008
25. The Digital Stakhanovite
    (W3C Q&A Weblog)
    Blogged: Sunday, August 17, 2008
26. Tuning and Feeding: My best practices for getting the most out of Twitter
    (Smart Mobs blog)
    Blogged: Friday, August 15, 2008
27. My first Facebook FAIL evar!
    Blogged: Sunday, August 3, 2008
28. The Fantastic Future of FriendFeed
    (Macro Linz blog)
    Blogged: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
29. The fuss about FriendFeed
    (FT.com Tech Blog)
    Blogged: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
30. The Filter
    (BuzzFeed)
    Blogged: Saturday, June 7, 2008
31. Get Satisfaction
    Blogged: Monday, May 5, 2008
32. Quick Guide to Twitter
    (iAdam blog)
    Blogged: Monday, May 5, 2008
33. MySocial AIR
    Blogged: Monday, May 5, 2008
34. How to build the Open Mesh
    (Marc's Voice blog)
    Blogged: Sunday, May 4, 2008
35. twistori
    Blogged: Wednesday, April 30, 2008
36. The Coming of the Holodeck
    (New York Times Blog)
    Blogged: Saturday, April 12, 2008
37. The Ever Watchful Eye of Google
    (Awaken Your Superhero blog)
    Blogged: Saturday, March 15, 2008
38. Surveillance & Society
    Blogged: Saturday, March 15, 2008
39. Accumulator
    Blogged: Sunday, February 24, 2008
40. TED Talks
    Blogged: Monday, February 18, 2008
41. Human ID Chips Get Under My Skin
    (BusinessWeek.com)
    Blogged: Monday, February 18, 2008
42. Facebook: What They Really Have On You
    (5min Video)
    Blogged: Monday, February 18, 2008
43. Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Bid for Yahoo! Yawn.
    (IP Democracy)
    Blogged: Saturday, February 2, 2008
44. Adventures in $40 eyeglasses
    (43 Folders)
    Blogged: Friday, January 25, 2008
45. Reinforcing the Blockbuster Nature of Media: The Impact of Online Recommenders
    (Knowledge@Wharton)
    Blogged: Monday, October 8, 2007
46. Net Usage Index
    (Akamai.com)
    Blogged: Tuesday, September 11, 2007
47. QOTD (from a few days ago, even):
    (Blog Maverick)
    Blogged: Thursday, August 30, 2007
48. Junk In A Box: 300-Page AT&T Bill for iPhone
    (Gizmodo)
    Blogged: Monday, August 13, 2007
49. ThisNext
    Blogged: Wednesday, August 8, 2007
50. iA Web Trendmap 2007
    Blogged: Sunday, July 29, 2007
51. Facebook Users vs MySpace Users: We Report, You Decide
    (Mashable blog)
    Blogged: Sunday, July 1, 2007
52. Microsoft Surface
    Blogged: Thursday, May 31, 2007
53. The Wizards of Buzz
    (WSJ.com)
    Blogged: Sunday, March 4, 2007
54. Burgers paid for by mobile phone
    Blogged: Tuesday, February 27, 2007
55. Twelve-steps to curing e-mail addiction
    (CNN.com)
    Blogged: Saturday, February 24, 2007
56. 'Infomania' worse than marijuana
    Blogged: Saturday, February 24, 2007
57. SoCal man charged with uploading Oscar screener onto Web
    (Mercury News/AP)
    Blogged: Thursday, February 22, 2007
58. Dell crowdsources innovation
    (The Social Web/ZDNet.com)
    Blogged: Thursday, February 22, 2007
59. Hollywood set to enter world of user-generated content
    (Revolution Magazine)
    Blogged: Tuesday, January 23, 2007
60. iPhone
    (Apple.com)
    Blogged: Wednesday, January 10, 2007
61. Beware the Online Collective
    (Edge.org)
    Blogged: Sunday, December 31, 2006
62. The Low Point
    (Jeremy Allison Column)
    Blogged: Sunday, December 24, 2006
63. Changing the Game
    (I, Cringely/PBS.org)
    Blogged: Saturday, December 16, 2006
64. New word: robocall
    (Talking Points Memo blog)
    Blogged: Monday, November 6, 2006
65. Yahoo hooks up with Current TV
    (The Technology Chronicles)
    Blogged: Thursday, September 21, 2006
66. The 25 Worst Web Sites
    (PC World)
    Blogged: Saturday, September 16, 2006
67. How mobile Rivers work
    (NewsRiver.Org)
    Blogged: Saturday, September 9, 2006
68. YouTube Bubble-Burst Pool
    (Will Video for Food blog)
    Blogged: Monday, September 4, 2006
69. Web 2.0? It's the same old media
    (The Internet is People blog)
    Blogged: Wednesday, August 9, 2006
70. What the Internet really looks like
    (Fortune/CNN.com)
    Blogged: Tuesday, August 1, 2006
71. What goes on the Net stays on the Net
    (PBS/I, Cringely)
    Blogged: Tuesday, August 1, 2006
72. MySpace sued for failure to protect against sexual predators
    (AlterNet)
    Blogged: Wednesday, June 21, 2006
73. Why Getting the User To Create Web Content Isn't Always Progress
    (WSJ.com)
    Blogged: Saturday, June 10, 2006
74. Face Recognition Software Goes Public
    (Technology Review)
    Blogged: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
75. A grand unified theory of YouTube and MySpace
    (Slate.com)
    Blogged: Saturday, April 29, 2006
76. Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad?
    Blogged: Thursday, April 6, 2006
77. The Looming Attention Crisis
    (A VC blog)
    Blogged: Wednesday, November 2, 2005
78. Typepad: The Ups & Downs of a Successful Service
    Blogged: Friday, October 28, 2005
79. Web 2.0 Cracks Start to Show
    (Wired News)
    Blogged: Thursday, October 27, 2005
80. No Longer Safe for Work: Blogs
    (Wired News)
    Blogged: Tuesday, October 25, 2005
81. Ning
    Blogged: Thursday, October 20, 2005
82. Google Earth threatens democracy
    (The Register UK)
    Blogged: Monday, September 26, 2005
83. Writing sensible email messages
    (43 Folders)
    Blogged: Monday, September 19, 2005
84. NerdTV
    (PBS.org)
    Blogged: Wednesday, September 14, 2005
85. Internet TV
    Blogged: Tuesday, August 16, 2005
86. PostSecret
    Blogged: Tuesday, August 9, 2005
87. mashuptown.com
    Blogged: Sunday, July 31, 2005
88. MP3 Mash-ups
    (99X.com)
    Blogged: Sunday, July 24, 2005
89. File-sharing suffers major defeat.
    Blogged: Monday, June 27, 2005
90. Jungle Podcast
    Blogged: Monday, June 20, 2005
91. Coming soon: Googling the truth
    (Guardian Unlimited)
    Blogged: Sunday, June 19, 2005
92. The Interactive Truth
    (New York Times)
    Blogged: Friday, June 17, 2005
93. America's Most Unwired Cities
    Blogged: Tuesday, June 7, 2005
94. Man Bites Phish
    (I, Cringely)
    Blogged: Saturday, June 4, 2005
95. Crazy Frog ringtone tops British charts
    (Engadget)
    Blogged: Monday, May 30, 2005
96. iPod bartender
    Blogged: Friday, May 20, 2005
97. Tiny tags in chips to track gamblers
    (The Seattle Times)
    Blogged: Wednesday, May 18, 2005
98. Hiring is Obsolete
    (PaulGraham.com)
    Blogged: Wednesday, May 18, 2005
99. NYT.com to charge for Op-Ed, other content as of Sept
    (MediaPost)
    Blogged: Monday, May 16, 2005
100. Kottke's New Internet
     (Mark Bernstein blog)
     Blogged: Monday, May 2, 2005
101. The Dumbing Down of America
     (PC Magazine)
     Blogged: Friday, April 22, 2005
102. Murdoch: Newspapers Must Stop Fearing Web
     (Editor & Publisher)
     Blogged: Monday, April 18, 2005
103. Celebrity house tour via Google Maps
     (Magnetbox blog)
     Blogged: Sunday, April 17, 2005
104. My Office ... from outer space
     (Google Maps)
     Blogged: Wednesday, April 6, 2005
105. Behind the curtain
     (BrandShift blog)
     Blogged: Monday, March 28, 2005
106. Grafedia
     Blogged: Saturday, February 26, 2005
107. Last.FM
     Blogged: Thursday, October 7, 2004
108. How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get Podcasts and also make your own)
     (Engadget.com)
     Blogged: Tuesday, October 5, 2004
109. Social Networking Map: Black Bloggers
     (Formica blog)
     Blogged: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
110. The Age of iPod Politics
     (Time.com)
     Blogged: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
111. My Tuesday with the World Economy Forum
     (Joho the Blog)
     Blogged: Friday, September 24, 2004
112. Opening up TV, a new API
     (counternotions blog)
     Blogged: Friday, September 17, 2004
113. People's Republic of Mac
     (Wired News)
     Blogged: Monday, September 13, 2004
114. 44,000 prison inmates to be RFID-chipped
     (silicon.com)
     Blogged: Monday, August 23, 2004
115. HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future
     (Blog Maverick)
     Blogged: Monday, August 23, 2004
116. DNA technique protects against 'evil' emails
     (New Scientist)
     Blogged: Thursday, August 19, 2004
117. del.icio.us
     Blogged: Monday, August 16, 2004
118. Picture What Matters
     (Yahoo! Mobile/Yahoo! Photos)
     Blogged: Wednesday, August 11, 2004
119. Identity Theft 911
     Blogged: Friday, July 30, 2004
120. Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow
     (Seattle Weekly)
     Blogged: Sunday, June 6, 2004
121. dodgeball.com
     Blogged: Thursday, May 27, 2004
122. Amazon (thumbs up), Apple iTunes (thumbs down)
     Blogged: Thursday, May 27, 2004
123. Baja Beach Club in Barcelona, Spain Launches Microchip Implantation for VIP Members
     (PrisonPlanet.com)
     Blogged: Sunday, May 23, 2004
124. Army gunning for game players
     (CNET News.com)
     Blogged: Wednesday, May 19, 2004
125. Too Many Fake Friends
     (PCMag)
     Blogged: Wednesday, May 5, 2004
126. Blog justice and its discontents.
     (allaboutgeorge.com blog)
     Blogged: Thursday, April 29, 2004
127. YASNS Meta List, Comments Please?
     (The Social Software Weblog)
     Blogged: Tuesday, April 20, 2004
128. Taglines Galore
     Blogged: Thursday, April 8, 2004
129. Commodity Music
     (Yahoo!)
     Blogged: Thursday, March 25, 2004
130. High-Tech Background Checks Hit Stores
     (Excite)
     Blogged: Saturday, March 13, 2004
131. ID Theft
     (FTC.gov)
     Blogged: Saturday, March 6, 2004
132. engadget
     Blogged: Thursday, March 4, 2004
133. The truth about Orkut.com
     (Corante:Many-to-Many)
     Blogged: Friday, February 27, 2004
134. PeopleAggregator.com source code
     Blogged: Thursday, February 12, 2004
135. GarageBand Kicks Out the Jams
     (Wired News)
     Blogged: Monday, February 9, 2004
136. Treo-diction
     (gigaom blog)
     Blogged: Thursday, February 5, 2004
137. My Hoopty, um, My Treo600!
     Blogged: Wednesday, January 28, 2004
138. Philips Creates Foldable Screens for E-Newspapers
     (Reuters)
     Blogged: Monday, January 26, 2004
139. Content Deliverance
     (TheFeature)
     Blogged: Sunday, January 25, 2004
140. Does Mobile Telephony Disconnect People from City Life?
     (TheFeature)
     Blogged: Thursday, January 22, 2004
141. iCalShare
     Blogged: Thursday, January 22, 2004
142. Profitless Prosperity?
     (GigaOm)
     Blogged: Sunday, January 11, 2004
143. 75% of Net Users Connect Sans Browser
     (BigBlueBall)
     Blogged: Sunday, January 11, 2004
144. A Big Garage
     (Daring Fireball blog)
     Blogged: Wednesday, January 7, 2004
145. Curt Schilling, Media Theorist?
     (MIT Technology Review)
     Blogged: Monday, January 5, 2004
146. 101 Ways to Save the Internet
     (Wired)
     Blogged: Wednesday, December 31, 2003
147. Blogger's block, collapsing facets and the number 150
     (Joi Ito's Web)
     Blogged: Tuesday, December 23, 2003
148. Technology's Impact on Everything
     (CIO Magazine)
     Blogged: Tuesday, October 14, 2003
149. What's In Your Dock?
     (kottke.org)
     Blogged: Thursday, October 2, 2003
150. Camera Phones
     (Techdirt)
     Blogged: Sunday, September 7, 2003
151. Orrin Hatch's real motives
     (Politech)
     Blogged: Saturday, June 28, 2003
152. No AdSense for you!
     (0xDECAFBAD blog)
     Blogged: Thursday, June 26, 2003
153. G5
     Blogged: Monday, June 23, 2003
154. We're all saps...
     (Interesting Ideas)
     Blogged: Monday, May 26, 2003
155. Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
     Blogged: Monday, May 19, 2003
156. RIAA apologizes for erroneous letters
     (News.com)
     Blogged: Wednesday, May 14, 2003
157. Creative Commons licenses
     (SATN.org (are you kidding?))
     Blogged: Friday, May 2, 2003
158. Google Watch
     Blogged: Monday, April 28, 2003
159. Surveillance Nation--Part Two
     (MIT Technology Review)
     Blogged: Thursday, April 24, 2003
160. How Consumers and Experts Rate Credibility on the Web
     (Consumer WebWatch)
     Blogged: Tuesday, April 22, 2003
161. Cops use ID info in criminal cases
     (The Collegian/Penn State)
     Blogged: Wednesday, April 9, 2003
162. Tagged Message Delivery Agent (TMDA)
     Blogged: Friday, April 4, 2003
163. Low-Income Homes Play More Video Games
     (Reuters)
     Blogged: Wednesday, April 2, 2003
164. ..::| My Own Self | ::..
     Blogged: Monday, March 17, 2003
165. Poor People! Wanna play Internet?
     (The Register)
     Blogged: Sunday, March 16, 2003
166. A new kind of publishing tool
     (Marc's Voice)
     Blogged: Sunday, January 26, 2003
167. Proposal for Open Media Management
     (Marc's Voice)
     Blogged: Friday, January 17, 2003
168. Violence Breaks out in Los Angeles Cyber Cafes
     (internetnews.com)
     Blogged: Saturday, January 4, 2003
169. When every picture tells a story
     Blogged: Saturday, January 4, 2003
170. Spam king lives large off others' e-mail troubles
     (Detroit FreeP)
     Blogged: Thursday, December 12, 2002
171. When the Spam Hits the Blogs
     (Wired News)
     Blogged: Monday, October 28, 2002
172. Film: Mac Fervor, Malcolm X Style
     (Wired News:)
     Blogged: Thursday, October 17, 2002
173. Riding the MTA's Love Train
     (Flak Magazine)
     Blogged: Wednesday, September 4, 2002
174. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
     Blogged: Sunday, August 25, 2002
175. Little hope for Talk City users
     (CNET.com)
     Blogged: Friday, August 23, 2002
176. Natural Reality SuperWeed kit 1.0
     Blogged: Thursday, August 22, 2002
177. Introducing Overpeer
     Blogged: Monday, July 8, 2002
178. WARCHALK
     Blogged: Saturday, June 29, 2002
179. Analog Rights Management
     (Ditherati)
     Blogged: Wednesday, April 17, 2002
180. Cyberspace and Race
     (Technology Review (MIT))
     Blogged: Friday, March 22, 2002
181. How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
     Blogged: Friday, February 22, 2002
182. Fake or Photo?
     Blogged: Friday, November 16, 2001
183. Mr. Beller's Neighborhood
     Blogged: Tuesday, October 9, 2001
184. Weekend Spam
     Blogged: Monday, October 8, 2001
185. Why does Yahoo encourage racist groups?
     (Design for Community)
     Blogged: Monday, October 8, 2001
186. Voter Virus Infects E-mail
     (ABCNEWS.com)
     Blogged: Tuesday, September 25, 2001
187. Inside.com Names Price - $3.95 a Month
     (Yahoo! News)
     Blogged: Tuesday, July 3, 2001
188. Online privacy fears are real
     (MSNBC)
     Blogged: Sunday, July 1, 2001
189. +he Finger
     Blogged: Monday, June 11, 2001
190. netscape and aol/time-warner, part two
     Blogged: Monday, June 11, 2001
191. Dealing with Blogers (sic)
     Blogged: Saturday, June 9, 2001
192. Site puts private cell calls on Web
     (Canoe)
     Blogged: Friday, June 8, 2001
193. Corporate Websites Suck
     Blogged: Tuesday, June 5, 2001
194. Interview: Dan Bricklin
     (Internet World)
     Blogged: Sunday, May 27, 2001
195. A Case of Stolen Identity
     Blogged: Saturday, May 26, 2001
196. E-Mail Style Depends Upon Gender of Recipient
     (Yahoo! News)
     Blogged: Sunday, May 6, 2001
197. Documentary looks at the downside of Silicon Valley
     (SiliconValley.com)
     Blogged: Tuesday, April 24, 2001
198. 21 Dog Years
     (Mike Daisey's New Show)
     Blogged: Saturday, April 7, 2001
199. The Medium is the Message and the Message is Voyeurism
     (Wired 2.02)
     Blogged: Monday, March 26, 2001
200. Study Faults Hill on E-mail
     (Roll Call)
     Blogged: Tuesday, March 20, 2001
201. Welcome to the Always-On World
     (IEEE Spectrum)
     Blogged: Tuesday, March 20, 2001
202. Bush signs off from the internet
     (London Telegraph)
     Blogged: Tuesday, March 20, 2001
203. Why I am a Bad Correspondent
     (By Neal Stephenson)
     Blogged: Tuesday, March 13, 2001
204. Back the Net: The Crusade
     (ICONOCAST)
     Blogged: Tuesday, March 13, 2001
205. Check your Rep
     (RedHerring.com)
     Blogged: Wednesday, February 21, 2001
206. Supertracks
     Blogged: Tuesday, February 20, 2001
207. 'The Web' is a poor metaphor
     Blogged: Monday, February 19, 2001
208. Friend of Jezebel's Mirror
     Blogged: Monday, February 19, 2001
209. Subject: Flash Website Design
     (harrumph!)
     Blogged: Tuesday, February 6, 2001
210. Rob's Giant BonusCard Swap Meet
     Blogged: Monday, January 29, 2001
211. Ginger
     Blogged: Friday, January 26, 2001
212. Turkish Kids Arrested for Web Use
     (Business 2.0)
     Blogged: Friday, January 12, 2001
213. How Internet Users React to Hackers
     (SiliconValley.com)
     Blogged: Monday, February 14, 2000
214. Opinion: Convicted Hacker Kevin Mitnick
     (Time.com)
     Blogged: Monday, February 14, 2000
215. Experts Call Web Assaults 'Tip of Iceberg'
     Blogged: Monday, February 14, 2000
216. Housing technology can bring equity to digital divide
     Blogged: Monday, February 14, 2000
217. MollyCam
     Blogged: Tuesday, January 25, 2000
218. Ana Remote
     Blogged: Tuesday, January 25, 2000
219. Anacam
     Blogged: Tuesday, January 25, 2000
220. Powazek Cam
     Blogged: Tuesday, January 25, 2000
221. Unamerican Kitty Killer States Case
     (Camworld)
     Blogged: Saturday, January 22, 2000
222. DVD Industry Plays Hardball With DeCSS 'Pirates'
     Blogged: Thursday, December 30, 1999