My routine is always the same. Mornings never vary and Sunday is sacrosanct. Feed the dogs. Make tea. Get the newspaper at the end of the driveway. Read from cover to cover.
There's something comforting about Style and Arts, knowing that even in the rotten economy, there are still movies and plays, art in the galleries, fashion, commentary. The comics are like a lovely confection, a big piece of sweet roll or coffee cake, smothered in sugar and butter.
Metro gives a harder edge to life in the city. I read the obits to make sure I'm not in them.
Front page, world news. The state of the world and the nation. The pulse of life beats on. The editorial page is a familiar haunt, with right and left elbowing for bragging rights.
The printed page is an important part of my life. Holding a piece of paper with the day's news gives my day a kickstart. Reading it online isn't the same. It's hard to balance a computer and a coffee cup and read. Computers have no tactile comfort. They're hard and plastic. They make noise. Little advertisements pop up incessantly. They irritate and annoy.
The Boston Globe is a newspaper legend. Loud and brassy. It bellows when others merely raise a voice. I grew up with the Washington Post, that staid and decorous gray lady of Washington news and Watergate headlines. In college, I had to learn to love the Globe. It was yellow and bold, grandly opinionated. It made your eyes water. But it was news. It was blue collar and the Red Sox. Fenway and Back Bay. The great equilizer in a town with brahmins and guys from the 'hood.
Keep The Globe. It's an institution that is part of the foundation of a very great city. To lose it would be to lose the soul of the city that threw the first Tea Party.
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keep it up :)
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I'm on the fence about this, while more customization is good, I have a feeling this is a "in-progress" update, it just feels incomplete and half-way there.
ReplyDeleteWe use badge layout for apps on design approvals (visual projects), so the image being displayed is important. Old layout "feels like" it had larger images,
maybe because the images were cropped more loosely so it's easier to tell which project it was at quick glance. Now the image is cropped closer, making it
harder to scan thru at quick glance. I find myself needing to click into the project more often than usual. Which makes the whole user experience less
efficient.
I have a couple suggestions that might make it work better:
1. Increase the height of the window the cover image is being displayed.
2. Let us to choose which image to be displayed as "cover" (like how Pinterest handles cover images of each board, was hoping for this for a long time)
3. Let us adjust which part of the image to show and how tight or loose the crop is (with a fixed window, let us move the image around and maybe enlarge or
shrink it to control what shows thru the window. Pinterest does a limited form of this, which is very useful in making the cover image relevant)
4. Allow Cover Image to be ordered in different hierarchy (currently every element can be ordered differently except the Cover Image, it seems to be stuck
in the 2nd spot, would like the option to set it on another spot in the layout. This one seems like an easy fix, since you guys allow that for every other
element already)