More like a cold shower, that. Why the NYT designers, each with years of training at perfecting the page layout, are so ineffectual when it comes to the web is a mystery worthy of Hercule Poirot. Best to wait for the next iteration, whatever that might be. The medium is the mess, they say. The models of navigation and flow being put forward today will influence future venues.
Precedents are powerful.
Design issues aside, if someone, somewhere doesn't come up with a workable business model that doesn't involve those bloody banner ads, we'll all be insane by this time next year. Whoever does so will have a place in history. Here are a few recent story topics from the New York Times, along with the links. The male biological clock. There's a new exibit in the gallery today.