New York Times Online Redesigns
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What is surely going to be the most talked about item today (Monday) - besides the Cleveland Indians taking the heat to the Chicago White Sox before the rain came down - is the redesign of the New York Times Online. While Khoi Vinh disavows being the point-man, the result shows much of his influence. Just comparing NYTimes.com to The Onion and you can see similarities. I hope another pass by Khoi can refine its' rough edges, but the redesign speaks for itself.
At first-blush, this is a much-needed and beautiful redesign - I really can't wait to see where this goes from here. I have always felt that the print version of the New York Times is a wonderfully rich document, especially items such as the magazine; the web version always stood out as a sore thumb, the bastard without design.
What is interesting - and to my knowledge new - is the Topics Section, which seems be a rudimentary stab at a more semantic web; while NYTimes.com is nothing close to Harper's semantic markup, perhaps this is a first stab. I could be wrong - it could only be an index, but I see more and more articles with information linked inline to these "topic pages;" something to be on the lookout for, at the very least.
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