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Dave Winer, Weblog, Oct 05, 2011

Dave Winer is working on a blog redesign and the mantra appears to be 'simplicity and readability'. I'm totally in favour. What's interesting is that he is borrowing design ideas from Readability, "a web & mobile app that zaps online clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view... Readability turns any web page into a comfortable reading view right in your web browser. Too busy to read right then and there? Readability makes it simple to save your favorite articles for reading later." It's a pretty good idea, and while Winder's design more or less eliminates the need for Readability, many other sites would benefit from the treatment. And for me, with vision poor and getting poorer every day, something that makes the text easy to read is a big deal.

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