Mirror, mirror

Autumn sunlight on a wall

The First (and Last) Law of Web Design

(from Mark Hurst)

On any given Web page, users will either…

– click something that appears to take them closer to the fulfillment of their goal,

– or click the Back button on their Web browser.

This is all you need to know. Ignore it at your peril.

Unconstitutional

This is the poster for Robert Greenwald’s new film.

You can download a trailer from here.

The economics of music distribution

William Fisher’s instructive four-slide PDF summary of how online distribution of music would change the economics of the industry. [Via Larry’s Blog. Thanks to Azeem for spotting that I’d got Mr Fisher’s first name wrong (I’d called him ‘Mike’.) Just to confuse things further, Larry called him ‘Terry’!]