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on the state of the world today . . .

why should we pay for their crisis?

Anti-capitalist student protestors clash with police as they demonstrate in the financial district of the City in London October 10, 2008. 

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When discussing the differences between reading news either on printed newspaper or digital screens, one argument has always struck me as inherently TRUE.

WITH A NEWSPAPER, you can be reading an article about POPSICLES when across the page, you might read an article about STEAK.  Watery-sugar-frozen treats have nothing to do with dead-animal-tender-and-bloody-meat - but there they are, on the same page. 

Due in part is seems because of the nature and demands of newspaper layout.

Now, I have only ever imagined what those demands and the workflow of newspaper layout would be like - but as a fellow graphic designer, it seems like you put articles where they generally fit on a "word-count-determines -placement-in-stylesheet" within an overall category of "WORLD NEWS" or "SPORTS" or the nebulous "LIFE" section strategy.

Blog architecture is key to replicating this experience on the web.

Some blogs are leading the way in illustrating moments of two or more random elements appearing in that stumble-across-content configuration because of the inherent layout/workflow/tag/ design and the random-serve aspect of blogs.

These are two such examples, found last night and this afternoon.

this - from RAWSTORY - is not satire.  At least i don't think it was written with the intention of it being satire.

and this - from Wonkette.