From March, but always good to have data from a large survey:

People who own tablet computers spend more time and money on the internet than anyone else in Britain. This is according to research commissioned by Total Media into how tablet technology has, and will, affect the population in terms of media consumption and behaviour. The quantitative study of more than 1,000 nationally representative respondents identified that 79% of tablet owners mostly use the device at home, with a further 33% saying that the tablet has affected their behaviour in the home.

Fascinating as the chorded keyboard is, its confinement to the ghetto of “crackpot technology” is but a symptom of the underlying disease: <a href="http://www.loper-os.org/?p=316">the total victory of the technological business model which caters primarily to the unskilled</a>.

Looking at the intriguing question of why the chorded keyboard never took off as an input mechanism.

Yesterday we <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/mar/14/windows-8-user-interface-confusion">showed you Chris Pirillo's father using Windows 8 for the first time</a>. Now here he is using Mac OSX for the first time, and trying to find "the internet".

Fascinating piece of user interface film: watch this before you judge users. (Pirillo senior is a confirmed Windows user, though he has used iPads and iPhones.)

A Tumblr looking at UI inconsistencies or weirdnesses in Ice Cream Sandwich (aka Android 4.0). If you're presently on Android 2.x, you'll probably find ICS like moving into a new house where all the rooms have been rearranged. So, is there a similar Tumblr for iOS?

"There are inherent problems with binary social networks. The idea that someone is either full-on in your life (and therefore has access to everything about you) or not at all is not how it works offline. You tend to share certain information only with certain groups of people. Only some people will be interested in photos of your new puppy, whereas those same people will probably not be interested in blog posts about your work.

Google Circles aims to solve these problems by allowing you to drag and drop people into distinct buckets, and letting you only share what you want with each circle. And yes, the UI makes it really easy to do this. It’s great design."

But it's impossible for that great design to make up for the fact that you can't maintain the listing of who belongs in which circles (or overlapping circles) for any length of time.

Very good, and surprisingly subtle, usability advice

"Alon Laudon spotted a new experimental interface for Google's results pages. The most important change is that most navigation elements continue to be visible even when you scroll down. The navigation bar, the search box and the search options sidebar have a fixed position, which means that you no longer have scroll to the top of the page to edit the query or switch to a specialized search engine."<br />
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Is it bad that a first reaction was "I wonder when that was patented?"