(Note: if the image isn’t changing, click here to go back to the original – it’s an animated GIF, and it’s worth seeing.)
Cassette singles. Remember those?
Nice bit of visual storytelling about music consumption format market share.
The problem with default web usage metaphors and lazy metrics
via xkcd.com
We get used to seeing metaphors and metrics in certain contexts, and we just start taking for granted that they make sense. It’s why I get really animated whenever an e-commerce client cites something Amazon does as proof that a technique works: Amazon can get away with crappy web interfaces because they’re Amazon. No one else has that same power.