Note to NY Times Mobile folks, Call Dave Winer right away. Please

Michael Gartenberg | September 08, 2006, 02:56 PM

The NY Times introduced the mobile "optimized" version of their site today. You can see it here at http://mobile.nytimes.com but I'll save you some time. It's awful. Registration wouldn't work on my smartphone, it's cluttered with Windows Mobile ads and doesn't make good use my screen (it's hard coded to a narrow format that doesn't make use of the full width of my display). Worse, the stories are hard to navigate and often require multiple clicks to read. No offense to the Times but if you want to know how to do this, just take a look at what Dave Winer did with your content with the NY Times River of News. You can guess which one I keep bookmarked on my devices.