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Newseum shows 14 newspapers' front pages at once in your browser

9:37 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 |
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What my browser framed of the NEWScan display of selected newspaper front pages.


newscan2.jpgNewspapers the world over email a pdf of the front page as it goes to press each day to The Newseum, which today offers 757 front pages from 69 countries. The default display of Today's Front Pages is Web 1.0 -- choose to click a catalog display of thumbnails, or Next, one by one.

NEWScan puts 14 of these pages together into your browser window (in an almost readable type size) with several ways to drag through them.

NYC design firm rayogram -- ("...interactive strategies for clients committed to the public good") -- collaborated with The Newseum on this.

I just got this email from Marshall Votta about NEWScan:

Love this... love it... http://rayogram.com/news/

Try using the arrow keys on the keyboard...

You can also download each page as a readable pdf. (You can right click and View Image to see a jpg, and click to enlarge it, but it's no larger than the draggable display, and the type is distorted enough by the jpg format's compression to stay a bit blurred.)

Still just the front page, from a very limited selection of news orgs, but it's another step, ever more like the real thing.

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