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Re: Do you think JB will ever move....? |
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John Brignell |
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Feb 23, 07 - 5:06 PM |
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jeb@numberwatch.co.uk |
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And while I am on the subject, here are some things I don’t like about blogs:
1. Most of the screen is taken up with things I do not wish to read. I might wish to follow the links at some stage, but at the moment I want to read the text.
2. So everything is divided into three columns. Even when the two redundant outer ones have run out of material, the information is still relegated to a narrow centre (sometimes very narrow). All right for addicts of tabloid newspapers, but not for people who read real books. What is the point of a screen that is mostly white space?
3. I object to the adverts being there, but sometimes they are destructively intrusive. I recently had to abandon one piece because the large flashing bright green square (telling me I had won a genuine lottery that I had not entered) was giving me a migraine.
4. On sceptical sites the adverts often subvert the material. For example, on Climate Audit, the revelation of fraudulent manipulation of data was accompanied by – Climate change is a reality today, see what you can do to help: A mobile to set off your carbon footprint: a new MSc in Climate Change. I actually believe in the power of advertising, which is why I don’t have any.
5. They are all made out of ticky-tacky and the all look just the same. |
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