• Browsing Pattern 2

    I was at Porter Square Books, leafing through their magazines and found the Art issue of The Believer was out.  I’m not a reader, but I decided to pick it up.
    Leafing through it, I found this nice “discussed” device they use at the head of each of their articles:
    It’s another kind of teaser to tell [...]

  • Browsing Pattern

    I was leafing through Brookline Massachussetts Adult & Community Education Catalog for 2010, and I noticed this nice move.
    Probably much more common than I realize, but in the outer margin they included a teaser for other class listings on other pages.  They also had famous quoutes and the like.
    But this other dimension of communication caught [...]

  • Amazon Regionalism

    A little while back I was chasing some links and I landed on the amazon page of a book I like.  It turns out that I searched this book in Amazon not too long before, but it looked different — it had a lot fewer reviews.  Then I realized, I was on the Wabi Sabi [...]