After 130 years, The Knox Student is finally online! This is the paper that both I and our dear friend @strutting edited while at Knox College. And it would now appear that this makes me officially more awesome than @strutting.
The site, programmed and designed by @mattbaker, is a still in beta form, meaning it doesn’t do much…yet.
Newsmap is on to something really huge, as my buddy Matt Baker has pointed out. Sometimes you really wonder how our current aspirations for web design will look to us in a few years. When I see something like Newsmap, which displays story “importance” (measured according to how many related articles exist in Google News) clearly and visually, while still giving you a headline, I become amazed at how little we actually understand about this Internet thing and what it can do. This design concept can be applied in so many situations. Maybe that’s what I’ll start doing …
