[from 30 Thoughts At Thirty Thousand Feet]When I read something like Techmeme, I want to “explode” a particular “meme” into a new web page with all the posts stacked up one after the other so I can read them all at once instead of clicking back and forth. This would be huge for readers but publishers won’t like it. The approach of showing the headline plus a small amount of text and forcing the reader to click thru is well developed on the web. Going further than that will annoy a lot of publishers. But not me. I’d be happy to get a lot more readers in return for giving up the ad impressions.
I want that sort of interface: not just for Techmeme, but when I am looking at any post I'd like to see what others are saying about the post I am looking at. Maybe Sphere could refabricate their stuff to do it?
That would be great. As a substitute that works decently well, I set Techmeme preferences to open everything in a new tab (or right-click them into a new tab), then keep going back to the original Techmeme tab for more until I have all of them I want to read. Doesn't work too well when there are two dozen sites, though.
Posted by: Rob Hof | October 10, 2007 at 07:48 PM