CNN recently redesigned their site, and I have to say it makes me a little sad. Usually these big corporations have the money to put in to serious design, and news agencies especially are looked to as sources of innovation, since their bread and butter is typography and layout. CNN’s new design, on the other hand, looks like a customized (maybe even ’slightly customized’) WordPress theme.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Now before you start sending angry emails, don’t get me wrong. I love Pandora. I’ve been using it since the beginning, and have rode along through all it’s trials and tribulations. A music genome project? Awesome! There was a time when my hard drive with all my music on it was out of commission, and with my stations on Pandora, it felt like I was listening to my own library, almost creepily at times!
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LA Public Library retools backend. What were they thinking?
I logged in this morning to check some holds I’d requested on my library account, and I noticed they’d made some improvements. Emphasis on the word “some”. The website for the Los Angeles Public Library isn’t bad, it’s got a nice, welcoming, library-esque feel to it as seen here:
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