Check Out New York Times Article Skimmer

The Old Grey lady ain't washed up yet. The New York times has debuted a new way to peruse the content of the paper, called Article Skimmer.

This great, delightfully clean and simple interface offers a wonderful way to skim headlines and first paragraphs of ALL the articles of the day. And since the NYT actually employs classically trained journalists, that headers and openers actually provide the most important info for your skimming enjoyment.



Great to see continued innovation from the nation's newspaper.

New York Times Open Developer API - How Cool Is That!

Read Write Web has announced that the New York Times is launching its first API, for finance data. Close on its heels will be movie reviews.

RWW says it's a big deal and I totally agree. As we move from a world in which people seek out content and ideas in physical publications and places online to an environment where content and its presentation are shaped to the desires of the user, steps like this are a huge leap forward.

NYT is clearly recognizing that they are essentially a database of dynamic content rather than a tangible thing like a paper or a site. Ergo, their brand of content can be consumed in virtually limitless ways in the future.

I repeat, how cool is that!