…is the title of a new book from John Miller and Roger Black. I mention it as it has a chapter examining the ideas of the Hypergene collective as put forward in their “Amazoning The News” whitepaper.
You can download a sample chapter, as I’m about to, from this page: Danilo Black USA – Nobody Reads Anymore
Petafloptimism 
this looks a promising, er, read … though i’m also taking it with a dose of textism’s fine polemic at http://www.textism.com/article/284/ … which both cocks a snoot at the notion that ‘users don’t read’ and reinforces the importance of producing content in a readable form (in this case, via standards-compliant typographical markup and layout).
but i’m really interested in this new book too(its cross-media approach looks promising) – but the downloadable intro is something of a tease. more *real* chapters online please!
hmmm.
I can not wait for this. the first chapter deals with CNN Headline News, which, for you guys in the UK, looks what a website would have looked like in 1989. HORRIBLE screen architecture. Some much stuff is happening that after about 10 minutes your eyes get exhausted. IF the powers that be think this is what the future of interactive media is doing to look like then we have learned nothing in the last 6 years. And i can not wait to see how they pat them selves on the back in the case study for MSNBC.com. What the hell is the groundbreaking “wheel” metaphor? Where have i been?
Ugh. I sort of get the point of this book, and I guess there’s some useful advice: organize, simplify, arrange. But the attitiude that simply presenting _more_ “raw” information is better because people have less time to wait for it is just wrong. Anyone do a usability study of CNN News?
Better to go re-read “The Social Life of Information.”
more textism comment on the matter:
http://www.textism.com/article/403/
perhaps there’s a middle ground.
more on HeadlineNews, with screen shots, at
http://www.contenu.nu/article.htm?id=1206