The Boston Globe’s website has a great new blog called The Big Picture, which shows some of the day’s news captured through photos. Andy Baio has a good interview with the site’s creator, Alan Taylor. On what inspired the site:
Lots of things – my parents used to always have Life and National Geographic magazines around the house, I fell in love with the visual storytelling way back then. When I was getting my feet wet in the online journalism world as a developer at msnbc.com, I had the good fortune of working alongside Brian Storm and a few others in MSNBC’s photo department, who were just phenomenal as far as selection, editing and presentation.
I wondered why other sites didn’t reach that level. Many have by now, but I was still frustrated by the presentation – either far too small, or trapped in click-after-click interfaces that were in Flash or just acted as ad farms.