Comments on: ConTwittering Opinions? http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/09/contwittering_o.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:18:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jon Garfunkel http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/09/contwittering_o.html/comment-page-1#comment-47154 Jon Garfunkel Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:51:08 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/09/contwittering-opinions.html#comment-47154 Well, a good word should be said about the EFFICIENT LAYOUT that <a href="http://civilities.net/HeadlinedNews" rel="nofollow">short headlines</a> provide. Twitter is one way to do that (through forced 140-character postings), but <a href="http://civilities.net/WebzineFormat" rel="nofollow">good webzine layout</a> is another. RSS does it as well, but a well-designed website (think Slate) is much more enjoyable to read than an RSS feed. (Twitter, of course, also encourages the brevity of reaction to a news link...) The blog ethos is to flood the readers with huge updates so that the readers are forced to follow the site regularly to track what's new. It would be nice, given the frequency of CoOp postings from multiple contributors, to see a summary view on the front page (again, think Slate.) Well, a good word should be said about the EFFICIENT LAYOUT that short headlines provide. Twitter is one way to do that (through forced 140-character postings), but good webzine layout is another. RSS does it as well, but a well-designed website (think Slate) is much more enjoyable to read than an RSS feed.

(Twitter, of course, also encourages the brevity of reaction to a news link…)

The blog ethos is to flood the readers with huge updates so that the readers are forced to follow the site regularly to track what’s new. It would be nice, given the frequency of CoOp postings from multiple contributors, to see a summary view on the front page (again, think Slate.)

]]> By: David Zaring http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/09/contwittering_o.html/comment-page-1#comment-47153 David Zaring Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:19:46 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/09/contwittering-opinions.html#comment-47153 We're just obsessed with delivering content in all the modern ways, Kaimi..... We’re just obsessed with delivering content in all the modern ways, Kaimi…..

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