From: Christopher Whipple (crw@well.com)
Date: Sun Nov 17 2002 - 12:30:33 MST
On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 07:11 PM, Hal Finney wrote:
> http://wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/prayer.html is about experiments
> by
> Elizabeth Targ, daughter of well known parapsychologist Russell Targ,
> which seemed to show that prayer could induce healing. The first page
> may be annoying to those of us with a skeptical bent, but if you read
> on
> the article goes in an entirely different direction, with some
> astonishing
> revelations as it develops.
Thanks, Hal, for giving me an opportunity to vent on a subject that
annoys me. :)
I hate the fact that Wired separates its articles into pages. It seems
the only reason for this is for the ad revenue. Their online articles
aren't long enough to justify this by claiming "separate pages means
reduced load time" -- because most of the bandwidth goes to graphical
ads.
Here's a supposedly forward-thinking publication stuck in the paradigm
of multiple pages for a small document on the web. Not that I'm
against hypertext! External links should definitely be used to expand
on topics mentioned in the articles.
But why? Why does Wired separate small articles into two or three
pages?
Am I crazy for being annoyed by this triviality? Am I the only one to
notice this and bother to ask Why?
Luckily, Opera allows me to toggle whether images load or not on a
per-page basis, which means I can read through to the second page of
Wired articles without giving them the benefit of ad revenues. My own
personal protest. :)
-crw.
http://crw.lucifer.com
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