The pull quote is a
time-honored way of both luring readers in with an enticing statement
and taking up lots of room on a page with words you already wrote. But
they're static, and they don't provide any extra information or insight.
Twitter
posts have been used as a sort of new-age pull quote before; they're
about the right length, and can provide some extra insight too. But there hasn't
yet been a particularly good way of integrating tweets into an article.
Most writers will just...
Published on May 04, 2010 03:24