Jesse Chambers at Birmingham Weekly just posted
We stumbled across another cool green web site, called www.grist.org. Based in Seattle, Grist is a clean site, displaying a lot of content without looking too busy. Grist bills itself as having “the most recognizable voice in environmental journalism: funny, opinionated and intelligent.”
On looking at the site, my first thought was “Gah! CLEAN??!!”
Jesse, unless you are looking at a different grist.org than I saw, I don’t see how you can call a site with a 300-pixel-high header, two banner ads across the top, three horizontal menus, a double column of ads, links, and stuff down the right, and no breathing room around the elements “clean.”
Not to mention the horrible orange/green mustache image and the naked woman with painted boobs front-and-center on the page. (Ok, now I just sent them 1,247 more pruriently curious visits.)
While I’m at it: I did not post this comment at Birmingham Weekly because their comment system requires joining Disqus, which appears to track all your comments across all sites to “allow you to manage comments in one place.”
Come on, Birmingham Weekly. Even Blogger gives you the option to post using name and email address without registering — and without such a direct invasion of privacy. Don’t make people jump through hoops to share their opinions.
