It's been a while since I posted a link-dump, so here's a few that have popped up on my radar recently:

• A brief rant on the future of interaction design: "I call this technology Pictures Under Glass. Pictures Under Glass sacrifice all the tactile richness of working with our hands, offering instead a hokey visual facade.";
• The social graph is neither: "…we have seen the Web, and we have tasted of the blogroll and the lolcat and found that they were good";
• How people use tablets and what it means for the future of news: " A plurality of tablet news users (40%) say they get their news mainly through a web browser. Another 31% use news apps and the browser equally, while fewer, 21%, get their news primarily through app"