Even on the web, sometimes actions really do speak louder than words.
The technology site Ars Technica has a tech-savvy group of readers, of which about 40 percent have installed ad-blocking software in their web browsers. That’s a plugin that allows you to avoid seeing most ads on a site. The financial consequence for Ars is [...]

Eliazar Parra Cardenas’ new project Backbars doesn’t add any new information to a site. Its aim is to make it easier for your brain to make sense of the information that’s already there. And that’s essentially the name of the game for “information design” junkies like Cardenas.
“The whole point is to make textual information easier [...]

On their weekly podcast last month, NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen and programmer Dave Winer blended their backgrounds to propose a new way of conceiving errors in the news media. Corrections, they argued, should be treated like software bugs — a valued element of programming, recorded systematically in bug-tracking databases. “If you help us catch [...]