How Infographics Are Ruining The Web

Generate a scaled thumbnail or the upper 300 pixels (the title) and load the whole image when people click on it, problem solved.

I used to post infographics -- and I still do occasionally. But I grew weary of sloppy fact checking and rampant misspellings.

You do realize, no one is going to take you seriously if you use comic sans...

Sometimes "infographics" are awesome. Open up your copy of Tufte's Visualizing Information to the graphic that demonstrated that a cholera epidemic was spread almost entirely through one water fountain, or the county-by-county cancer death rates in the US, and you'll doubtless agree that graphic displays of information can be beautiful and useful.

But most of what people package as "infographics" on today's series of electronic tubes really belongs in the _other_ series of tubes. Most do nothing to elucidate data relationships but instead just "look pretty". Meh.

if your website is useless on w3m, it speaks volumes about what content it provides that is worth keeping.

When they first came out, infographic posts were interesting and neat. We posted quite a few ourselves, but as time went on, we started getting pitches and soon realized that the infographics were for SEO purposes.

And going to look at this, I see that's exactly what they say. Well done for them. Infographics are stupid.

Most infographics are for SEO shit, and they're "sponsored" or whatever by websites that have nothing to do with the subject.

Yeah, I could type it out, but it's much more efficient for you to go read it and let me spend my time looking for something else interesting to post.

Why can't you quote from a graphic that includes words and not just an image? Granted that you can not electronically copy and paste the text, but that doesn't prevent a person from quoting it by manual transcription.

"You do realize those 1000x9000 pixel images full of gradients and bad clip art are slowing down you site's load time, right?"

Wow, I somehow magically quoted the un-quotable and posted it.