1 Very insightful!

Most of the mentioned stuff I’ve been applying for a while, but only know I realize why. You’ve put it into words beautifully!

posted at 11:49 am on February 17, 2009 by Dieter Luypaert

2 Untitled

I think I love you :)

Your article warmed my heart, for I am a huge advocate of creating better reading experiences online not just through better writing and better content design but through better design. Several of your points I found very interesting (most specifically about pull quotes in the center of the article. Hadn’t considered that before.) and I didn’t really want the article to end. I wanted it to go on and on.

You have a beautiful voice, too, and I look forward to reading more of your work. Thank you for this.

posted at 11:52 am on February 17, 2009 by amber simmons

3 ADDs

I guess this would be another reason for ad-revenue driven sites to either a) keep all the ads above the fold or b) kill the ads and find another source of revenue. :)

And Thank you! It’s been a while since I’ve fully engaged on an article on ALA. ;) BTW, would it hurt to perhaps bump up on the site of text on the ALA article pages?

posted at 12:10 pm on February 17, 2009 by gene lu

4 Thanks

Your article made me understand why I have been playing with the Firefox-extension Stylish – to make some reading space for myself where the original design seems to do everything to detract you from reading (reading an article at Slate.com, to name but one example, is more like a hurdle race – fine for some, I imagine, but I prefer a relaxed, pensative walk…)

posted at 12:21 pm on February 17, 2009 by Dirk Bogaert

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Thank you for the thought-provoking article. I’m redesigning my main site soon (which is currently very busy) and this is going to be helpful in my planning.

posted at 12:43 pm on February 17, 2009 by Matt Andrews

6 Will pay for content

The future of website monetization is a very centralized (or decentralized and tightly networked) micro-payment format. This would be a browser plugin that keeps track of all the “click here to read this article for 3 cents” clicks that you do in a day, and then processes your card at the end of the night. Then the money is dispersed into the internal accounts of the publishers who’s sites you’ve visited, and at the end of the month, the cumulative amount is put into the publishers bank account. This method requires a lot of publishers to be on board with the same site payment company, or a lot of users to have the same browser plugin, and have the payment companies communicate clicks between each other based on reports sent via the browser plugins.

posted at 12:50 pm on February 17, 2009 by florida web design

7 In Defense of Readers--It's About Time!

Thanks so much for this wonderful article! I’m an editor with a bit of ADD, so I’m always delighting in finding an article that I don’t have to print out before I can finish it. Not being a designer, I wasn’t sure why it was so hard to read longer articles; now I know. And so will others (if I have any say in the matter).

posted at 01:04 pm on February 17, 2009 by Kate Russell

8 Switching form and context

This article is very insightful and brings up some interesting points (even after just reading ‘Neuro Web Design’ by Susan Weinschenk).

I find myself switching form and context by using Instapaper.com when I find an interesting read online. It strips all the visual info and just keeps the text. They even solved the ‘thumb-problem’ by scrolling through tilting your iPhone!

posted at 01:16 pm on February 17, 2009 by Almar van der Krogt

9 Orwell reading in the lulls between fighting

“Sometimes I was merely bored with the whole affair, paid no attention to the hellish noise, and spent hours reading a succession of Penguin Library books which, luckily, I had bought a few days earlier; sometimes I was very conscious of the armed men watching me fifty yards away.� Homage to Catalonia

posted at 01:38 pm on February 17, 2009 by Walter Dufresne

10 Orwell Reading In The Lulls Between Fighting

In that one sentence, Orwell pulled off 20th Century English literature’s most macho use of the semicolon.

posted at 01:44 pm on February 17, 2009 by Walter Dufresne

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