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October 01, 2007

The front page is dead, but not yet quite reborn

I like what Michael Wolff says in his Vanity Fair piece about his new news site:

The metaphor, for 150 years — from print to radio to network to cable — has been the front page: important stuff first. "It should have to do now with falling through something, or floating through the totality of information or of intersecting worlds and interests," offers [Patrick] Spain, not a man wild with his metaphors. [VF, October, p. 126]

I've been saying for a while, and I think in Everything Is Miscellaneous, that the new front page is distributed across our day and our network. Much of it comes through our inbox. It consists of people we know and people we don't know recommending items for our interest.

So, I was disappointed by Wolff's new site, Newser.com. It presents a view of the news that's much less hierarchical than a typical front page, and it's well-designed for quickly finding what matters to you, but: (1) It assumes its nine top-level categories reflect how every reader views the world; (2) Where are our voices? Comments? Blogs? (3) I couldn't let it arise from my social network (where that network includes people I don't know but whose views interest me). It competes with Google News, not with the intersection of Digg and FaceBook, which is what I'm waiting for. [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous news media michael_wolff ]

Posted by D. Weinberger at October 1, 2007 07:35 AM


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