Jon Mitchell, ReadWriteWeb, on a brand new web news site - Evening Edition:
A Web design studio built the first news site I’ve ever read from top to bottom two days in a row, and it did so as a side project. Mule Design is not in the journalism business. It builds sites to solve all manner of client communication problems. But it did in a week’s work what news organizations can’t seem to do at all: deliver their output in a form that’s comfortable and convenient for the audience. I couldn’t help myself. I had to figure out how and why.
Here’s why the site is great. An actual editor finds the day’s most important news, writes about why it matters, and publishes it at 5 p.m. every day without any notifications or streams. The site is clean, responsive, and isn’t beholden to nostalgic design traps - like ads and skeuomorphic print layouts. This all means that you can read the news that matters most without battling through a slew of crappy advertisements or sifting through stories about Justin Bieber’s hair. The designers are first to tell you that the experiment is just beginning, but I certainly like the start.