Over at Signal vs. Noise, Jason Fried explains “why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the Web.”
“The Drudge Report usually leads with a “font size=+7” ALL CAPS headline in Arial. Sometimes it’s italicized. Sometimes, for something big big, he’ll cap it off with the infamous siren.
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Stories aren’t grouped or organized [...]
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November 20, 2008
Muxtape as a model for an anti-recommendation engine
July 2, 2008
Muxtape has my attention.
It’s not terribly social. It’s not much of a network.
In fact, it’s so devoid of features, there’s little to distract you from listening to music, which is what you showed up to do.
The front page of the site is dead simple: A colorful list of mixtapes to listen to, with relatively opaque [...]