The New York Times has a very nice “article skimmer” prototype up. Basically, it’s an easy to scan grid of each major section of the news paper.

Newspaper and magazine web sites are notoriously bad at designing readable front pages, so this is a welcome alternative.

(via Steven Walling)

Ethan Zuckerman wrote about the problem of the NYT’s online front page here.

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