We’ve always been fans of Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages website and have linked a few times, but I am very excited to see this new site pop up from rayogram called NEWScan. I know nothing about it, other than it displays neatly and efficiently 10 covers of the world’s largest/most influential papers. For an expat like me who doesn’t have any physical paper to read it is nice to see how things are looking around the world.

I suppose this sort of thing is legal, if the papers are releasing their PDFs already, but I can’t imagine this is sanctioned. Don’t really care, this is a nifty little tool. If my consumption is anything, there is still something to the importance of newspapers in their ‘old’ state. The navigation and heirarchy of a well designed front page is still something to behold. Probably past its prime, and I look forward to the day when someone comes up with something as navigable and efficient online.
(h/t John Dickerson of Slate.com and the Slate Gabfest, via facebook of all places. Be sure to check out his twitter which is my most favorite out there)