Design for Readability First

The article is dead on. Lots of people start looking at the internet as a money machine and forget what the internet is actually for

P.S. - the article links to The Guardian's Open Content platform, which strikes me as the coolest thing from 'old media' ever. The NYT is throwing a hissy fit over headlines in some iPad reader, while The Guardian basically says, 'go ahead, make a better website with our content'. Which of course frees them to do exactly what they probably do best: journalism.

That site isn't exactly readable either. Don't override my preferences for font family and size. Yeah, your tiny font is hard to read. And get rid of the distracting animated panel of tweets while you're at it.