Friday, September 15, 2006

Slate

Slate is by far my favorite source of news these days. They are also the only news source I know of that is really experimenting with their medium.

In this artice: http://www.slate.com/id/2149508/ a writer criticizes a 9/11 photo and asks for the people in the photo to wite in. The next day one person does, and then a second person (they are able to verify identities with photographs), and they publish both letters in an article: http://www.slate.com/id/2149578/. Then the photographer writes in, which they also publish as an article: http://www.slate.com/id/2149675/.

How cool is that? I love all these newspapers and magazines whining about how Google/Craigslist/Internet is putting them out of business. Maybe they should actually do something interesting with the new medium and they could be relevant again.

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