“Hillary Clinton began the race with all sorts of advantages, but she and her advisers never grasped how much had changed.” A nice summary of the reasons why Obama was able to overtake Hillary, despite her being the obvious choice. Visit site »
Newsvine, Last.fm, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Tumblr all make TIME magazine’s top 50 websites of the year. Visit site »
TIME says: “Al Gore has fallen out of love with politics. But friends, moneymen and an army of green activists are begging him to run.” A really compelling piece on the former Vice President who both won and lost the election in 2000. Good stuff.
By the way, TIME is one of the few news websites whose design makes me really enjoy reading it. Clean, crisp, bright, simple, elegant. I like it. Of course, I would like to get in and put “Helvetica Neue” before Arial in their stylesheets… :) Visit site »
TIME redesigns, and it’s quite nice. The cleaner design, well-used photography, and really readable story pages remind me of a lot of the things Nathan is doing with the new LJWorld.com redesign (which isn’t public, yet). I’d still prefer the homepage be even more clean with even less “stuff” on it, but this is definitely an improvement and hopefully the start of a positive trend in online news design. Visit site »
TIME Magazine presents the best inventions and innovators of 2006. A lot of brilliant design in here. Visit site »