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Pressflex.com: NYTimes.com daily users top parent’s print circulation. Very interesting case profile on Nytimes internet activities:
- 1.28 million users, more than the print circulation.
- average age of reader 35 years compared to the newspapers 45 year average.
- overlap between online users and print readership only 8%.
- 30% retention rate on montly readership against the base of registered users
- generated 85,000 new home deliveries in 2001
- distributes 3.5 million daily “today’s headlines” emails.
- pays the portals 1 to 3 cents per visitor referred to the site.
- operating profit in 2002.
Lot’s of stuff to think about for media publishers - especially my beloved local danish media companies who instead of innovating are suing the people who are linking to them!

News Page Designer - news page designers around the world uploading samples of their best work.

Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture has finally got a website allthough it looks more like a cdrom [link via nosenseofplace]

Rant
Benjamin is ranting on about the need to combine business thinking and interaction design/usability. I totally agree with him offcourse, but also feel the urge to say. And so what’s new?
Product design has for ages been like that, store design likewise, etc.
The only thing that’s new is that it’s digital. Period.
And the bloody interaction/experience/information/etc. design title is nothing new -once again old stuff in a digital context.
So using business goals when designing how to buy domain names or how to order organic groceries is just digital work building on the shoulders of hundreds of years of work.
That it still is news for bloody business schools punks in management is just a testiment to the education system we have today.
Yeah, and merry christmas too…

Old pals LittleDevice - digital product design finally launched a nice public website. Now we all just can’t wait to get their explainations of what “digital product design” and “thinking people - working design” really means…

Digital Web Magazine - An interview with Peter Merholz and Nathan Shedroff on User-Centered Design. Must read!

Sony NX70V Color CLIÉ
Most wanted gadget - if it just had a gsm phone built-in it would be the ultimate companion. (allthough one should be able to find voip software for it utilizing the wireless lan card one can put in it.)
If a certain gadget-pusher now just could get her employer to get me one…

Interesting company. HumanContext - we put the equal sign between business and people

Great minds think alike!
In the tradition of finding a similar design i present to you the nordic edition of koolhaas eu identity, which seems to have preceded koolhaas’ eu version by some length of time - bernbach nordic nations study [their dhtml nightmare site makes deeplinking impossible]

Rem Koolhaas’ proposed new EU Identity. Like the diversity goal in Koolhaas concept - we need that at the moment in Europe!. Is it good, well - it’s definately better than the current identity imho - and for once the EU isn’t totally clueless - giving Koolhaas the assignment shows some level of competence! [link via sigurdsson.dk]