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	Restructuring the information, as Jakob Nielsen suggests, makes
eminent sense from a usability perspective. But it's no longer
shovelware. Lengthy print stories typically are not written for easy
restructuring into multiple flows. I wonder what that might cost in
staff time (money) and whether  media organizations, even well-financed
ones, are ready and willing to pay for it.

	John Russial
	University of Oregon

	>I do recommend making pages as short as possible and to reduce
scrolling.
> But the way to do this is to structure the information into multiple
> flows,
> not to stutter through a single flow in an unpleasant manner. Once you
> have
> done your best to structure the story for online and you are left with
> a
> certain amount of text it is much the lesser evil to have users scroll
	>through that text than to subject them to page-turning.



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Subject: Re: Making the best of shovelware From: John Russial  Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:59:35 -0700
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Subject: Re: Making the best of shovelware
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:59:35 -0700

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