And I'd be fine with that width for text -- short lines are easier to read, up to a point -- but when the article is about images, really, let me use a reasonable amount of my screen to see the images.

I know you can zoom by clicking on the image. That zoom is barely acceptable. That should have been the size of the image in the article, and clicking on them should zoom more and let me scroll.

Agreed. Call it prejudice -- which it is -- but I'm having trouble believing that someone who would lay out a page like this:

http://i.imgur.com/9kBV5o5.png

... is going to have anything insightful to say about a mapping application.

Yes, I get it. It's hard to make use of a display with a large number of pixels, especially when no two displays seem to have the same size and scale. But you know what? That's something you have to deal with in this business. You don't get to punt by removing or hiding every bit of information possible, or by presenting your thoughts an awkward single-column format inspired by some study or another that was conducted back in the newspaper era.

And the images are too small.

Click on them and they will get bigger.

Can't say that helps much.

http://i.imgur.com/CI33nx3.jpg

personally I like that I can just read the text and not have other random crud wasting my time and attention. It was trivial to increase the text size so that the text took the right amount of space for me.