Interpotential

The author of this article (from 1984) makes one wrong assumption, and bases everything else on that. He says that the non-digital desk, with stacks of papers overlapping each other doesn't work efficiently. While in fact it does. It's highly efficient to be able to take a peek at the paper below, without having to file the one on top away.

And based on that one wrong assumption, he writes the whole concept of a windowing system on the computer to doom.

Oh well, I guess this shows how important it is to have your basic facts right before writing and discussing anything.

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/25/science/value-of-windowing-is-questioned.html

VALUE OF WINDOWING IS QUESTIONED Does anyone do windows any more? I don't mean the clear panes of glass in our homes, long the object of the punch line of abject-housekeeper jokes, but the on-screen ''Now you can run half a dozen programs at once'' variety. The answer is, not really. Windows, which had been announced as early ...

I like this article and I like this website. Just the small column and distracting teasers and adverts on the side, combined with a somewhat small fontsize, make the layout very much unsuitable for reading larger pieces of text.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jun/15/happiness-is-being-a-loser-burkeman

Happiness is a glass half empty Be positive, stay focused on success: so goes our modern mantra. But perhaps the true path to contentment is to learn to be a loser, says Oliver Burkeman

That's why producing content for online publication requires an approach quite different to print. And this (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/web-typography.html) is how we can change that.

How Little Do Users Read? (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely.