re: Obama's alleged Executive Order "dictatorship"

Simply counting executive orders does next to nothing to study to what effect they've been used, how many agencies they are targeted towards, or anything about the content thereof. Executive order usage has been declining for years due to a number of trends, like the fact that in FDR's day presidents routinely used these directives for simple personnel matters that are now handled elsewhere, but the way in which the orders have been used has evolved as well.

I think the claim that Obama's use of these orders is unprecedented is over the top, but nothing about the article linked in the OP refutes any of those particular criticisms people have made. The absolute number of executive orders would be an extremely poor way to measure presidential power because, as is often the case, numbers on their own can be misleading.