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alexbain: john: frontpages: Tested Early by North Korea, Obama Has Few Options Lose the Traffic. Keep That Times Square Grit. Principals Younger and Freer, but Raise Doubts in the Schools Autopsies of War Dead Reveal Ways to Save Others Poetic Justice: Briton Says She Helped Taint Rival I love reading the papers on my Kindle - but Frontpages.Tumblr in my dashboard helps fill the visceral void What an awesome idea! I’ve never seen anything like this anywhere else. Sites like this should smooth our transition into a generation without the news being printed on physical media. Computers use the metaphor of folders and files even most most users probably have no physical filing system. I think I’d prefer to be greeted by a virtual front page, when I landing on a news source’s homepage, to the custom web version most employ. It would at least be a neat option. It’s about CONTEXT! In all the death-of-newspaper rhetoric out there, no one seems to be discussing the stimulus readers experience when normally unrelated stories are jumbled together on a single front page. Taking this single page in with our eyes and minds forces us to make sense of the big picture, or at least attempt to organize the disorder. With hyperlink navigation, Google and the Kindle we lose the context to a degree. And it is this curation that we stand to lose if we don’t transition from print to digital in a measured manner.

alexbain:

john:

frontpages:

  1. Tested Early by North Korea, Obama Has Few Options
  2. Lose the Traffic. Keep That Times Square Grit.
  3. Principals Younger and Freer, but Raise Doubts in the Schools
  4. Autopsies of War Dead Reveal Ways to Save Others
  5. Poetic Justice: Briton Says She Helped Taint Rival

I love reading the papers on my Kindle - but Frontpages.Tumblr in my dashboard helps fill the visceral void

What an awesome idea! I’ve never seen anything like this anywhere else. Sites like this should smooth our transition into a generation without the news being printed on physical media.

Computers use the metaphor of folders and files even most most users probably have no physical filing system. I think I’d prefer to be greeted by a virtual front page, when I landing on a news source’s homepage, to the custom web version most employ. It would at least be a neat option.

It’s about CONTEXT!

In all the death-of-newspaper rhetoric out there, no one seems to be discussing the stimulus readers experience when normally unrelated stories are jumbled together on a single front page. Taking this single page in with our eyes and minds forces us to make sense of the big picture, or at least attempt to organize the disorder.

With hyperlink navigation, Google and the Kindle we lose the context to a degree. And it is this curation that we stand to lose if we don’t transition from print to digital in a measured manner.

Source: frontpages

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    While, I was thrilled by the reblogs from John and Soup, I couldn’t believe the net effect. +500 tumblarity jump for...
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  6. dbreunig reblogged this from alexbain and added:
    It’s about CONTEXT! In all the death-of-newspaper rhetoric out there, no one seems to be discussing the stimulus readers...
  7. alexbain reblogged this from john and added:
    What an awesome idea! I’ve never seen anything like this anywhere else. Sites like this should smooth our transition...
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  12. andreainspired reblogged this from frontpages and added:
    What a fantastic idea for a Tumblr. + Follow!:
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    formerly know as Times is now Tumblr” -
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    soupsoup:john:frontpages:
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    Tested Early by North Korea, Obama Has Few Options Lose the Traffic. Keep That Times Square Grit. Principals Younger and...
  18. rhodyram reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    A great idea with the frontpages tumblr, and look at those people! Just lounging in the middle of one of the busiest...
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    FOLLOWED. Amazing.
  20. soupsoup reblogged this from john and added:
    This is one of the reasons I love tumblr. What a great idea.
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    papers on my Kindle -...Frontpages.Tumblr...my dashboard...
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