Thinking About Interaction Design for Online News Delivery

Phillip van Allen at OJR with some very interesting thoughts:
OJR>The recent proliferation of blogs and other content management systems (CMS) has eliminated the Webmaster as a mediator between the writer and reader, turning the Web into a read and write medium, as Tim Berners Lee — the inventor of the Web — originally imagined it. This development is creating a new and more direct channel of communication between writers and readers and has given more power to the writer. Unfortunately, the typical Web page is still constrained by limited interaction and a lack of affordances — designer-supplied capabilities and tools — that empower the user. read more>