Tuesday, 14 April 2009
No More Bullet Points
I think we have to be aware of how dangerous the growing ubiquity of bullet points is for online content.
The technique of bullet-points, formatted paragraphs and carefully laid out images is great for scanning, but it does tend to result in very superficial and light online articles and blog posts that don’t necessarily do justice to the subjects they are presenting.
Sure, I don’t mind you breaking things down to bullet-points when I’m reading about the new features of Apple’s latest gizmo, but if I’m reading about something deeper, more educational or intellectual, I don’t mind reading through numerous pages.
I for one find blog posts that don’t adhere to the ‘Top 10 Blog Post Best Practices’ refreshing, at least allowing some of the authors personality to flow through his text-formatting style.
It’ll be a sad day when everything we read online is reduced to 400 characters in bullet points!
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