What News Sites People are Reading, by US State
via beatonna:
Chris Brown is performing at the Grammy Awards and it’s a big fuss! I had to remind myself why so I went and looked up this old newspaper from 2009.
Time-lapsing the New York Times Home Page
Phillip Mendonça-Vieira ran an errant cron job that ended up taking two screenshots of the New York Times home page every hour from September 2010 to July 2011. The fortunate result of the mistake: 12,000 screenshots of what the Times felt important for its home page.
Phillip writes that most publications don’t save their frontpage layout data and if the printed newspaper ceases to exist, society will lose key historical snapshots of the every day.
Via Phillip:
This, in my humble opinion, is a tragedy because in many ways our frontpages are summaries of our perspectives and our preconceptions. They store what we thought was important, in a way that is easy and quick to parse and extremely valuable for any future generations wishing to study our time period.
Notable moments: Chilean miners at 0:39, Arab Spring at 3:38 and Japanese Tsunami at 4:54
![via futurejournalismproject:
Schadenfreude (i/ˈʃɑːdənfrɔɪdə/; German pronunciation: [ˈʃaːdənˌfʁɔʏdə]) is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.
Sorry, LA Times, I couldn’t resist.
For some background on the East Coast / West Coast, New York / Los Angeles Times rivalry, take a look at January’s NYT profile of the LAT. And then let’s also remember these words from the LAT’s Geoff Mohan in response to it. — Michael](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll3itoT6rg1qedj2ho1_500.jpg)
Schadenfreude (i/ˈʃɑːdənfrɔɪdə/; German pronunciation: [ˈʃaːdənˌfʁɔʏdə]) is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.
Sorry, LA Times, I couldn’t resist.
For some background on the East Coast / West Coast, New York / Los Angeles Times rivalry, take a look at January’s NYT profile of the LAT. And then let’s also remember these words from the LAT’s Geoff Mohan in response to it. — Michael
The Understatement: Digital Subscription Prices Visualized (aka The New York Times Is Delusional)
Interesting analysis comparing the Times paywall to other online media subscriptions
Here are the annual prices of a variety of services, all of which allow users to access the service from the web and across multiple devices with a single unified subscription. See if you can pick out which one is the outlier:
As Frédéric Filloux and others…
What we gave known hitherto as the newspaper, is dead as mutton…we are sailing to a new diorder
As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. If this is what you’re trying to get The Sun away from, then I think I’d like to work for you.
The Future of Newsprint
- Me: What will we wrap our fresh Fish in when newspaper goes out of print?
- @JDcoffman: I'm also concerned about the impending global shortage of paper to wrap things in when moving.
- @sBolen: Kindles!
- @TheLoneOlive: lol
