http://news.com.com/Reading+phone+text+one+word+at+a+time/2100-1046_3-5785579.html?tag=st.prev In India, Rediff.com, a portal that many consumers access through cell phones, the company is working on ways to restructure news stories to make them more palatable on mobile devices. One idea, already implemented, involves writing quick summaries of news stories and drastically limiting the length of news stories. Brings to mind a recent…

I like ads.  They provide a mild distraction (sometimes even relevant) and add some oomph to dry text on web pages.  The layout, if well designed makes the text easier to scan/read.  The problem with the ad industry is that they crossed a threshold some years ago where the use of pop-ups/unders, animations and ad-sizes…