Rants and Ramblings: random commentary about culture, media, politics, technology and whatnot.

links for 2007-04-10

• A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs | New York Times
  High-profile figures in high-tech are proposing a blogger code of conduct to clean up the quality of online discourse.
  (tags: community blogging usercontent messageboard ethics)
• Comparez les programmes des candidats à la présidentielle 2007 | Le Monde
  Nice interactive feature allowing users to compare presidential candidates on a variety of issues.
  (tags: france interactive politics inspiration flash via:jmanning)
• Religion and Politics 2008 | Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
  A new survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press examines the candidate preferences of several religious groups at this early stage of the 2008 presidential campaign. Nice comparison of candidates by issue.
  (tags: politics pew via:jmanning campaign 2008)
• Why the overwhelming numbers of design flops? | International Herald Tribune
  The grim truth is that most new designs are much more likely to be derivative, pretentious, ugly, cumbersome or wasteful than those that are not. That's why buying some new products dispiriting process of choosing the one you dislike least.
  (tags: design toread via:core77)
• Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don’t Read This in Traffic | New York Times
  Think you can juggle the phone, e-mail, instant messages and work? New research shows the limits of multitasking.
  (tags: via:43folders gtd culture productivity multitasking)
• New data on the problems of “multitasking” | 43 Folders
  (tags: gtd multitasking productivity psychology)