Dave unsubscribed from the Boing Boing feed because he couldn't stand ads in the RSS feed anymore and wonders how users like RSS even if crappy readers and and increasing amount of advertising is making their experience far from good.

A partner of mine has been working on and off for the last week in order to get his PC back in shape after it got infected with some nasty bug visiting a web site. Not being his main computer this is not a big deal, but it would be for a regular user.

For some strange reason most 16/9 TV screens seem to default on a "squeezed mode", distorting a 4/3 image to a 16/9 ratio, making everybody look fat. Even if changing this default behaviour should be easy, almost every flat TV screen I see in public spaces and in homes is working in this weird mode and nobody seem to complain or to bother at all.

High-tech user experience is of course much better today than it was only a few years ago, we don't have command line, we can communicate like we never did and watch hundreds of TV channels, but hi-tech products also have a much broader user base which is made of a majority who thinks that it's natural having to get advertising in their news, having to completely reformat their hard drives every few months and look at movies where every cars seem to be 2 feet tall and everybody is overweight.

Is there a way out? Will users learn that what they are getting is not good enough and ask for better quality? Will developers get sloppier just because anyway nobody seem to care?

Quality in application design and development should be the next big deal. Not sure if they'll call it Web2.1 or Web3.0 :-)