rw: Nice run of short insights from iGreed (vc-blog) ... only scanned, looked a bit into this re NYT makeover:
Thanks to a reader for pointing out that the N.Y. Times redesign includes a tag cloud. Granted, it's hidden somewhat, but it's another reminder a) that the redesign is blog-informed, and b) that much of what passes for interesting in blogs is actually UI-related.
-Their redesign was definitely 'blog-informed' : ttp://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/news/2006/04/the_times_redes.html
-Yes, I read Anil's piece when it came out, and posted my view of the "blog-informed" issue:
I like the redesign over at the New York Times site -- it's fresh, clean, open, accessible, and, yes, blog-informed. It is a good reminder, in case one was ever really needed, that one of the reason blogs emerged was to do with mundane user interface issues at traditional news publications. Among other things, it was too hard to find most recent stories and too hard to comment on things.
Upshot: The traditional media could still put paid to the blog-o-sphere by simply stealing some good design ideas.
--The only impediment to more Times on the Web is, frankly, psychological: a fear of destroying a legacy business, a fear that has no place in a world where the Times is worth only $3.7 billion and Google nearly 30 times that. -- Jim Cramer's latest New York magazine column.

from sixapart article: Deeper in the site, the venerable Newsroom Navigator has been updated. The page (as its address reveals) used to be called the Cybertimes Navigator, and has long offered a set of links to web resources that the Times’ own reporters would find useful. As it sheds the dated “Cyber-” prefix, it’s also been moved into the 21st century with a Blogs 101 list.
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oh and by the way, from rw: BBC news in Welsh (weird-looking)