The 1978 short film Farewell, etaoin shrdlu documents the changeover from linotype to digital typesetting at The New York Times.
An evenhanded treatment of the unremitting march of technological progress, Weiss’s film about an outmoded craft is stylistically vintage yet also immediate in its investigation of modernity.
The Guardian have hit the big red button and made their responsive site the default. Great stuff!
(top tip: don’t read the comments)
Ooh, these look nice! Smaller, more manageable newspapers from Newspaper Club.
There’s two years(!) of doctored headlines here. Yes, it’s puerile but it’s also very funny (to my puerile sensibilities).
The sad state of online newspapers (the design this time, not the business).
I had a good browse through "Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet 2008" at PaperCamp. It's lovely.
Excellent news from the New York Times: no more charging for content. Finally, I can link to NYT articles from blog posts (and del.icio.us).
Using photographs of actual headlines from the Evening Standard.
Yet more on the events I blogged about down the street, again from the local newspaper.
The newly-launched redesign of Le Monde Diplomatique is absolutely gorgeous. Whitespace on a newspaper: finally!
The Daily Mail headline generator.