Well, another day another blog…

Found this link to an article in the Journal of Electronic Publishing about how the overplaying of ease of use in computers is contributing to that ‘digital divide’ that journos are always going on about. I think that a lot of what this guy says is right on. For another interesting take on this see Neal Stephenson’s essay ‘In the beginning was the command line’, another reason why Neal Stephenson is one of my favourite writers.

It’s amazing that this GUI craziness really can make you forget what an amazing piece of technology a computer is, and just get annoyed when it doesn’t work, instead of thinking of ways to make it work. Blah, what a long sentence. Anyway, read ITBWTCL (the essay) to get a better idea of what the hell I am talking about.