And the crazy part? THE NEWSPAPERS ARE STORED AS PDFS! Who wouldn’t rather pay for a daily emailed pdf than a huge stack of papers?
And the pdfs are beautiful. All digital with crisp fonts and pure white backgrounds and none of the colour loss or bleed that is unavoidable when printing to cheap paper.
And they’re searchable too!
*sigh* I have seen the nirvana of news, I know it exists. Why can’t I have it?
The thing I hate most about newspaper site is the search engines often sucks ass! Seriously.
If you have something like a severe weather event or a police incident and for whatever reason you missed it then your often out of luck as the search engine will often not even let you browse by date.
Some let you narrow it down but even then the results are still sucky and you get articles not relevant to your search.
nicky
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 11:07 AM+1 (but only for your use of the word ‘embiggen’)
olearymo
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 12:50 PM+ a million. Such a perfectly cromulent word.
Ben H
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 12:00 PMI concur!
And the crazy part? THE NEWSPAPERS ARE STORED AS PDFS! Who wouldn’t rather pay for a daily emailed pdf than a huge stack of papers?
And the pdfs are beautiful. All digital with crisp fonts and pure white backgrounds and none of the colour loss or bleed that is unavoidable when printing to cheap paper.
And they’re searchable too!
*sigh* I have seen the nirvana of news, I know it exists. Why can’t I have it?
Guy
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 2:15 PMI have to say the The Age iPad app is glorious – it’s free just now so give it a try. This is what online newspapaers should be!
Danny Allen
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 9:54 PMYeah I’m a fan of the SMH/Age iPad app — hope it stays free
Justice
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 4:05 PMAll valid points, but the updates to the American Gawker pages aren’t exactly stellar examples of how to do online news either.
Kyle
Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 7:46 AMThe thing I hate most about newspaper site is the search engines often sucks ass! Seriously.
If you have something like a severe weather event or a police incident and for whatever reason you missed it then your often out of luck as the search engine will often not even let you browse by date.
Some let you narrow it down but even then the results are still sucky and you get articles not relevant to your search.