I have barked some about “information density” something lifted from the Tomes of Tufte — in my web travels I come across some sites that just have way too much in the gutters, banners, et al, and not much meet. Since Clara Peller is not around much, I have to ask, “Where’s the Beef?” So take for example a recent article from Lockgergnome. Now I am not picking on them, though it sure looks that way, and I do get a lot of good RSS leads from their article feeds. This is just an exercise in seat of the pants analysis. The content in question is “RSS for Mom and Dad”– where there are lots of ads, links galore, and related content links, but the article boils down to 5 paragraphs, or 2567 characters, or 8k of information. My summary of all the web page content is 112k of total [...]
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