Comments on: Magazine Issues Become a Non-Issue http://www.commansentence.com/magazine-issues-become-a-non-issue/ Creativity, New Media, and Stories Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:34:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jennifer Deseo http://www.commansentence.com/magazine-issues-become-a-non-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-5886 Jennifer Deseo Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:23:15 +0000 http://www.commansentence.com/?p=2364#comment-5886 I think the problem with long-form online articles isn't in the way most of them are written, but in the way many of them are laid out on the screen. Too much copy on the page is an ocular assault, especially if the typeface is thin or too small. Long New York Times articles do well online because the grafs are visually broken into smaller bits, and articles are broken into multiple pages. Still, I agree with The Atlantic's Kinsley: Print articles tend to be bloated. But just because print is dead doesn't mean print-style writing is too. I think the problem with long-form online articles isn’t in the way most of them are written, but in the way many of them are laid out on the screen.

Too much copy on the page is an ocular assault, especially if the typeface is thin or too small. Long New York Times articles do well online because the grafs are visually broken into smaller bits, and articles are broken into multiple pages.

Still, I agree with The Atlantic’s Kinsley: Print articles tend to be bloated. But just because print is dead doesn’t mean print-style writing is too.

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