Nick Denton wrote an interesting piece about it late last year: <a href="http://lifehacker.com/#!5701749/why-gawker-is-moving-beyond-the-blog" rel="nofollow">http://lifehacker.com/#!5701749/why-gawker-is-moving-beyond-...</a><p>I agree with a lot of the thoughts behind it, but in execution I don't enjoy using it.
Seems like site redesigns always just make things worse... this might be a slight improvements over the last one though, which looked to me like a parked spam page.
Personally I don't like it either. Much harder to open multiple articles for later and it loads ones that I don't want to read while i scroll towards ones I do.
Seems like its designed for a tablet to me... I think we'll start to see more content displayed like this (not that it is blowing my socks off now though)
the ign.com redesign was very well welcomed. slightly irrelevant, but an example of accepted redesign. this actually works on a tablet but feels like an app. in the browser, the experience is quite horrendous and slow. i have to mouse wheel to scroll articles and clicking on the link refreshes the page when it should be ajaxy. it makes me not want to come back.