{"id":131,"date":"2004-02-04T14:36:24","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T19:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tigoe.net\/blog\/category\/uncategorized\/131\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:56:36","slug":"bill-buxton-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/category\/physicalcomputing\/131\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Buxton Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billbuxton.com\/LessIsMore.pdf\" target=\"_other\" rel=\"noopener\">Less Is More (More or Less): Speculations about the Design of Computers<\/a> &#8211; Bill Buxton&#8217;s essay on the weaknesses of general-purpose computers, and why application-specific, networked appliances are a better idea. See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billbuxton.com\" target=\"_other\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Buxton&#8217;s site<\/a>, where all of his writings can be found.<br \/>\nAnother good Buxton article:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billbuxton.com\/sponges.html\" target=\"_other\" rel=\"noopener\">Absorbing and Squeezing Out: On Sponges and Ubiquitous Media<\/a> &#8211; Bill Buxton<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/design\" rel=\"tag\">design<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/networked objects\" rel=\"tag\">networked objects<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/networks\" rel=\"tag\">networks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/pcomp\" rel=\"tag\">pcomp<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/physical computing\" rel=\"tag\">physical computing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less Is More (More or Less): Speculations about the Design of Computers &#8211; Bill Buxton&#8217;s essay on the weaknesses of general-purpose computers, and why application-specific, networked appliances are a better idea.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/category\/physicalcomputing\/131\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bill Buxton Articles<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interactiondesign","category-networks","category-physicalcomputing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}