Happy New Year to all of our friends! Many of you have already had the opportunity to read Atlas’s Year in Review, outlining Atlas’s events and programs over the course of 2009, if you haven’t please take a look below:
Atlas Year in Review 2009
We’ve received several exciting year end reports from some very new think tanks around the world this past week, here some highlights:
- CAFMI in Kyrgyzstans first year
- An exciting year for Students for Liberty in the United States
- IPEA in Mexico also celebrates in first year
Share your think tank’s highlights from 2009 & plans for 2010 in the comments!
Could you put up your reports (year in review, various think tank activities) as a simple text document? Or at least make that an option?
Publications are meant to be easily read, else browsers may’bail out’.
But the format you use -scribd/ipaper- requires a computer with sufficient memory and is too tiny to read unless one ‘zooms’ to a degree that makes constant horizontal and vertical scrolling necessary.
I tried to get around this by going to ‘full page’ mode. But this does not work on all computers (it doesn’t on mine.)
Also a smooth scrolling from top of one page to top of the next is not straightforward.
Also, most computers these days are sold with insufficient memory. On my 1GB machine, scrolling with this ‘magazine’ type software is S-L-O-W.
A PDF does not solve this. The problem is that the original source document (year in review) is too wide for a computer screen.
So it doesn’t matter what display software you use - none will solve this problem.
A solution is to make each story ‘clickable’ and only show headlines.
This is what the New York Times and most newspaper websites do - you are never trying to constantly scroll horizontally to read the next column of a story.