By RegoPark
Contributing Blogger

A day of transition here at Drudge Blog. Lance is switching servers and I’m finally getting around to writing a long (and long-promised) essay debunking the Matt Drudge gay rumors — and why you, I, and non-gossip aficionados should care about them. One of my favorite habits is dissecting rumors, especially the ones that have been accepted as fact. In the meantime…

I thought I’d take this opportunity to post a “Drudge Short” — a tiny little factoid/observation that can’t fit tidily into an essay or time-specific blog posting.

The Gutenberg Drudge

If you’re a stickler for streamlined graphic Web presentations, chances are you’re not passin’ the bandwidth at good ole Drudge Report. Interestingly enough, I’ve noticed that the very top of a typical front page on a typical day employs a “Gutenberg diagonal” layout to create a simple progression effect. In advertising lingo, a Gutenberg diagonal is a visual path that causes the reader’s eye to follow it from the upper left comer to the lower right corner of a page. Of course, if Matt really knew or cared about what he was doing, he wouldn’t scrunch the top photo, the below headline, and the Drudge Report logo together so closely.

Check out today’s page to see what I mean. The first hyperlink you see is on the upper left hand corner, trailing off with consecutive periods (…), below which is the front photo, which opens out into the list of links.

What with all the red that graced today’s DR front page at 8:30 CST(dead pope, live cardinal, tiger cubs romping around a red floor) it resembled an illuminated Gutenberg manuscript…