Check out the New York Times’ prototype for an article skimmer. As this blog post explains—and judging by the reactions of most commenters—with this skimmer The Times has moved that much closer to replicating the best feature of the print newspaper: the ability to scan the display type for a wide range of articles.
One of the key challenges of the newspaper online is that you often get very little context or textual/visual “hooks” to draw you into the story beyond the hyperlinked headline, as Ethan Zuckerman notes (and as Cass Sunstein laments in describing the lack of an “architecture of serendipity” in online news media). Quoting Zuckerman: Continue reading ‘Redesigning the newspaper online’
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