“Total magazine advertising for the month of June closed at $1,495,315,334, a 19.8% increase over last year, according to Publishers Information Bureau (PIB). Advertising pages for June were 24,408, up 17.2% from last year. Year-to-date, advertising revenue and ad pages continued their steady rise, with a 17.0% increase to $8,390,593,972, and a 14.4% increase to 121,171 pages, respectively.” Be sure to check out the dotcom #s.

“Cars with jet-like tailfins zoomed past giant tiki gods, rockets and flying saucers on their way to Disneyland. In some ways, the Space Age, or Googie, architecture and design surrounding the park blurred the line between the Magic Kingdom and the real world. The Space Age Inn, Satellite Shopland and the ultra-modern Bob’s Big Boy restaurant were like extensions of the promise of Disney’s Tomorrowland. Likewise, a giant tiki with glowing eyes standing before the Pitcairn Motel was nearly as intriguing to young visitors as the restless natives hiding in the jungles of Adventureland. These are some of the more exotic examples of Googie, a style of architecture that thrived in the 1950s and early 1960s. It began as commercial architecture designed to make the most of strip shopping centers and other roadside locations. It fit the needs of the new California ‘car culture’ and the dreams of the even newer space age.”

On ACM SIGCHI WWW Human Factors: “Not enough controversy on this list, so here goes. Ready? Tufte understands packing the data in. He lacks an understanding of people. Sometimes chart junk (his term) helps in the understanding of a chart by providing mnemonic aid to the symbols. Sometimes it helps motivate the reader. For most casual users of charts and graphs, less is better. For the professional statistician, such as Tufte, denser is better. Tufte is often wrong about what constitutes good communication…”

On ACM SIGCHI WWW Human Factors: “Not enough controversy on this list, so here goes. Ready? Tufte understands packing the data in. He lacks an understanding of people. Sometimes chart junk (his term) helps in the understanding of a chart by providing mnemonic aid to the symbols. Sometimes it helps motivate the reader. For most casual users of charts and graphs, less is better. For the professional statistician, such as Tufte, denser is better. Tufte is often wrong about what constitutes good communication…”

“Total magazine advertising for the month of June closed at $1,495,315,334, a 19.8% increase over last year, according to Publishers Information Bureau (PIB). Advertising pages for June were 24,408, up 17.2% from last year. Year-to-date, advertising revenue and ad pages continued their steady rise, with a 17.0% increase to $8,390,593,972, and a 14.4% increase to 121,171 pages, respectively.” Be sure to check out the dotcom #s.

I really hate that cliché. “The Salon revolt speaks volumes about the growing impatience that Web users are having with constant face lifts of their favorite sites or with sites that are difficult to navigate… ‘In the early days, users embraced change because the Internet wasn’t useful,’ Mr. [Jakob] Nielsen said. ‘Now they punish change because they need the Web. It’s a useful tool.’”