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Independent of the post, does anybody else find the OCCASIONAL BOLD PHRASES very distracting? I can't make up my mind whether to READ THEM WITH EMHPASIS, as one
by jmillikin 15y ago
Independent of the post, does anybody else find the OCCASIONAL BOLD PHRASES very distracting? I can't make up my mind whether to READ THEM WITH EMHPASIS, as one might hear in verbal speech, or try to find a CLEVER HIDDEN MESSAGE from the author.
- canistr 15y agoWhen I saw Bada Bing, I thought there was going to be some Samsung/Microsoft partnership about to be announced.
- wging 15y agoI'm imagining some China-centric Googler seeing "Baidu Bing" and chuckling.
- hubb 15y agoperhaps a little distracting, but all together it was very well-written
- thought_alarm 15y agoIn my experience, that's how many Microsofties compose their email, to emphasize the important bits of a document that few readers will bother to fully read. And why not? What better way to take advantage of the MS-Word Rich Text Editor in Outlook than to bold random phrases.
- gfodor 15y agoIt's Atwood-style, and I definitely find it really distracting. Every series of bold words is read by the voice in my head loudly and toneless, the way Americans yell English to foreigners.
- blasdel 15y agoI'm pretty sure Atwood cribbed that wholesale from Jakob Nielsen's ancient advise: http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/ http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/ But Atwood is truly inane in his own special way: http://secretgeek.net/jatwood_how_to.asp http://secretgeek.net/jatwood_how_to.asp
- gabaix 15y agoI guess your uppercase letters were done on purpose. It's distracting too.
- zem 15y agoi keep looking for them to be clickable
- rictic 15y agoI also found it odd how every cultural reference pointed (usually unhelpfully) to the corresponding wikipedia article. Didn't hurt the content of the post, it was just kinda.. odd.