More on the Globe's Wacky Website You'd think a major newspaper could afford a decent web designer, right? (Though maybe the premise is wrong.)

I continue to be amazed by the idiocy of the Boston Globe's website redesign.

The page looks nothing like a newspaper, which the New York Times—the best newspaper website—has shown is a really helpful visual tool, allowing visual cues that tell the readers which stories the paper thinks are important.

Instead, the Globe lists its stories in one narrow column that goes endlessly down and down the page—wasting over 50% of the space in your browser window while you scroll and scroll, like Ed Harris falling to the bottom of the ocean in The Abyss.

And talk about weird editorial choices! I have great respect for the deceased, but do we really need "Obituaries" coming before "Nation," "World," "Sports," "Business," and just about everything else in the paper?



Ed Harris prepares to read the Boston Globe online.  ¶ 7:19 AM