This has been around a while, but I just learned of it: Today's Front Pages is a project that lets you view, as PDFs, the front pages of newspapers from around the world (322 from 37 countries, when I last looked at it). Apparently the newspapers submit their front pages, in some standard format, every morning. In addition to this neat website, the Newseum selects 68 front pages every morning, prints them out, and displays them outside in downtown Washington, DC (at the future home for the Newseum).
This display makes you realize just how wonderful a format for conveying information print newspapers are, and just how crappy websites -- with the same information -- typically are. I think it would be interesting if they also generated a PDF of the main page of the newspapers' websites in the morning, and displayed them side-by-side with the print version.
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