Among the changes this week to the New York Times website, I really like the Today’s Paper feature. You can browse the entire day’s articles in every category on one page – everything from politics to arts to editorials to obituaries.
I also like the Times Topics feature, which collects all articles that mention a particular person, area or subject. For example, you can look up Al Gore or homosexuality or blogs and blogging or Lincoln Center. It’s really cool for research nerds like me.
Arggghh, I hate with a capital H.A.T.E. the new NYT website. It takes me forever to find things. I’m having an internet pity party :)
This is merely Phase-1 of The Paper Redundancy 5-Year Plan. Next, they’ll start to artificially raise the price of those unseemly paper copies to push the herd closer to the eco-clean, resource-efficient digital version of the NYTimes.
Bewarned that as less users feel chained to the old fashion dirty version of the Times, the price will naturally skyrocket. In the near-future the market for paper-only publications will collapse, leaving many consumers momentarily behind to pay outlandish prices as the magazine rack, only to further accelerate the conversion to digital-only.
I give paper-only publications less than 10 years life. Bye-bye paper wasters.
rob@egoz.org