A trend that I hate has gotten worse and worse lately. Articles on the web sites that have been split into pages. In many ways there is no real reason you should have to split them up anyway, although if it's really long it might be tolerable.
I wanted to read this article about Apple vs Microsoft and the WWW. Look at this blasted page? Huge fricken banner, an incomplete tab list duplicated on the side, way too much white space and finally halfway down the page the article starts. You start reading, hit the down arrow twice and it's already asking you to go to the next page. Their navigation bar still continues on past the bottom of the page. Hell, on the right side they have a huge graphical ad the text of the article doesn't even reach. I'd be pissed if I paid for it. The second page is just as bad and the third only has two paragraphs. I know you want to show more ads, but at the very least make the content go to the bottom of the page.
This interview with Bjarne Stroustrup I thought would be interesting, but look at this page. Left sidebar, two right sidebars! Mostly filled with ads leaving a 20% of the page for the article averaging about 8 words per line. Seriously, can you tone it down a little bit and still stay in business?
This is another reason I tend to enjoy reading personal blogs. They tend to have a much better layout. I'd call them biased, but most sites are just as bad and try to hide it more. Some sites like Reid Reviews put most professional publications to shame.
This article on the rescue of the Cougar Ace is how articles should be put on the web. One nice long page to scroll and scroll. Actually I think it was orginally paged, but they have a link clearly labeled 'Full Page'. This is an amazing article and if you have the time go read it.
In related interesting articles I've bookmarked I love this one about a Coke machine in Seattle. I'd almost expect to see something like this in Japan, but I don't think the Japanese would appreciate the humor of the 'mystery' button.
After seeing kids run around here in Tokyo all by themselves I loved this story about a mother leaving her 9 year old to find his way home. And no, not about of cruelty, but he wanted to do it himself. As she points out we aren't living in Baghdad.
Lastly, check out what dogs are learning in Moscow. In Tokyo all you see are cats and rarely the occasional rat and neither are particularly friendly.