Photographer Peter Belanger’s timelapse video of creating a Macworld magazine cover is mesmerising to watch, and reveals just how much effort goes into the seemingly simple cover photo. Think of it as the photography equivalent to Mike Kus’ slide design time lapse video, which tracked the process of designing a presentation earlier this year.
Michael Sokolove’s article “What’s a Big City Without a Newspaper?” in the New York Times Magazine tells the situation facing the US newspaper industry through the story of Philidelphia’s own papers, including the possible ignominy of being the first major US city without a daily paper.
Mumbrella has the numbers from Nielsen’s latest stats for the time users spend on media websites in Australia (and also the US). The numbers aren’t entirely surprising, but it’s still interesting to see.
As part of their Open Government Initiative, the US government have launched data.gov, a website to provide access to datasets they produce. Combined with services like ManyEyes, this should be interesting to watch.
BBH Labs’ talks to Times Media Group about their redesign of The Times in 2007. Their prototyping with “Project Victoria” is a great approach to testing out new systems if you can afford it.