{"id":69,"date":"2005-05-14T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/2005\/05\/14\/use-and-useability\/"},"modified":"2005-05-14T05:03:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-14T05:03:00","slug":"use-and-useability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Use and Useability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so, i&#8217;ve recently come to (what is to me) a brilliant realization.<\/p>\n<p>information that is not readable, is not useful.<\/p>\n<p>now, you may be saying &#8220;well, duh&#8221; (and it&#8217;s OK if you are) but now that you&#8217;ve mocked my intelligence, try this.<\/p>\n<p>start paying attention to how readable the sites you&#8217;re visiting on the web are.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>do you have to close 50 pop up ads to find the article you&#8217;re trying to see?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>after you&#8217;ve closed those ads, are there so many other ones embedded on the page that you still can&#8217;t find the article, or, if you can, you can&#8217;t pay any attention to it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>on the other extreme, do you have to stare at a huge block of text with no paragraph breaks for 30 minutes before giving up in frustration because, no matter how hard you try, there&#8217;s just no way you can make sense out of the massive wall of verbage you&#8217;re confronted with?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>once you start paying attention, you may be surprised as you discover that a whole lot of the &#8216;information super highway&#8217; is paved over by billboards these days.<\/p>\n<p>and we&#8217;re not talking some huge gaudy thing on the side of the road &#8230; oh no.<\/p>\n<p>these things are smack down the middle of it, crossing all 4 lanes, and to make mattters even worse, you will often be expected to pay\/subscribe\/sell-your-soul so that you can have the privilege of running into them as hard as you can while you travel.<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s just plain dumb.<\/p>\n<p>and there&#8217;s probably a whole lot more i could ramble on about that is related to this topic, but it&#8217;s pretty late, and i just got distracted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/cubegoodies\/toys\/722a\/\">these<\/a> after clicking on an ad for thinkgeek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so, i&#8217;ve recently come to (what is to me) a brilliant realization. information that is not readable, is not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[44,46],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-people-skills","tag-rambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}