“I don’t think that fancy layout trumps newness. The name ‘news’ tells you what’s important about news. Newness. So if you follow that clue, it leads you to the obvious conclusion that news should present first the newest bits we have. What’s next? The second newest bits. And third, fourth and so on.” Dave Winer
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Spot on. But a gross simplification too, since in the realization of that ‘newness’ lurk all the devils of Detailopia. Theoretically every different perspective of an event could claim that its new. Which means that Dave’s position is theoretically appealing but practically not so useful.