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My name is Katrin Becker. This is my blog.
It is about Computer Science, Educational Technology, Digital Games, Academia, and sometimes Rural Life and other notions.
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How to do it right on the Web (I)

August 23rd, 2009 by Katrin Becker

When advertisers realize how the web is different from print…

(thanks Todd Scott MacIsaac for posting this)

http://producten.hema.nl/

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Visual-Syntactic Text Formatting

June 29th, 2007 by Katrin Becker

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen anything really new when it comes to presenting text, but this one looks like it has a lot of potential. Here is a link to the original article (the samples below come from there):

http://www.readingonline.org/articles/art_index.asp?HREF=/articles/r_walker/

The technique described in this paper turns this:

Before

into:

After

For online reading this looks like a terrific idea.

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