Gawker Redesign: Is Change Good?

GawkerDeadspin, and Jezebel have gotten overnight makeovers. It can be distracting to fans of these sites. So much time was spent on the conversion that there are fewer stories to dunk into your Monday morning coffee. And a lot of time was spent giving a a virtual looseleaf binder to go along with lengthy tutorials on how to navigate through these sites.

Wait…how to navigate a blog? Isn’t a big part of a blog’s allure the ability to read, scroll, and click on highlighted words to go to other juicy nuggets? Nice and easy right? Read, read, and read some more?

If we wanted to “download” oodles of info we could watch ESPN News, CNBC, or even the local news. But

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