Programmable New York Times

I found this article yesterday on my favorite pop culture website Buzzfeed.

It is interesting that the New York Times is realizing who their new demographic will be and reaching out to them (us) in a way that we can relate. I personally don't read but a few articles in the Times because most of their articles are too in-depth for me. But imagine if only the articles you would be interested in show up in the margins of your blog, or in your Google searching. Or if the opposite happened, and the Times took a cue from your Twitter message or blog post about news that is happening or something spreading virally around the internet. It could mean a dumbing down of news, or it could mean news that is more relevant to its audience and therefore more likely to be read and passed along.

Internet killing the newpaper?

Found this blog of simple poetry very interesting. Austin Kleon takes New York Times articles and blacks out most of the text, with the remainder reading as a poem.

Research Topic: New York Times Office Culture

I have been researching the new New York Times building by Renzo Piano to learn about their office culture. Their theories of open work spaces, collaboration, and innovation are expressed in the building itself in very advanced ways. I am trying to look past the building itself at this point to focus on the workspaces themselves.

Something that I have found very interesting and that I think really relates to my thesis and the convergence of architecture and ever-changing technologies is the elevator lobby walls.

Each of those little screens is a constantly changing image of current news reports, images, blogs, comments, data, etc. from the Times' website as it is published, as well as images and news from the Times' 156-year archive. Called Moveable Type, each screen also has audio and is a great example of the New York Times ideas on the rapidly changing media environment. Much as radio station headquarters play their stations 24 hours a day, the New York Times commitment to news and New York City is displayed on these walls.