{"id":1040,"date":"2005-11-02T17:59:28","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T21:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2005-11-02T17:59:28","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T21:59:28","slug":"ubiquity-why-people-dont-read-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"Ubiquity: Why People Don&#8217;t Read Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wendell Piez pointed me to an article in Ubiquity: An ACM IT Magazine and Forum with the title <a title=\"ACM Ubiquity - Why People Don't Read Online and What to do About It\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acm.org\/ubiquity\/views\/v6i40_cameron.html\">Why People Don&#8217;t Read Online and What to do About It<\/a>. It is by Michelle Cameron (Vol 6, Issue 40, Nov. 2-8, 2005) and is short and easy to read. It nicely summarizes the reasons people don&#8217;t read off the screen and how to write for those who scan. The last guideline is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Know when to stop writing. Like now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendell Piez pointed me to an article in Ubiquity: An ACM IT Magazine and Forum with the title Why People Don&#8217;t Read Online and What to do About It. It is by Michelle Cameron (Vol 6, Issue 40, Nov. 2-8, 2005) and is short and easy to read. It nicely summarizes the reasons people don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ubiquity: Why People Don&#8217;t Read Online<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markup-and-text-representation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}