[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Poynter’s Steve Outing has a suggestion for improving registration schemes: a big “PLEASE REGISTER” banner above the content, which will go away when they register.

“My guess is that nearly all regular users of a site employing this scheme will register, in order to make the registration-request graphic go away. One-time visitors won’t, but they’ll still get what they want — and be exposed to the site’s advertisers.”