Today's Front Pages!

I started to realize Webolution was entirely getting away from me. Most of the time I looked at the tasks and even did them and just never got around to blogging about them and I don't know where the time has gone. So by now, I have to kind of re-look anyway, since I don't recall my original thoughts. But I suppose that is twice the learning. Today's Front Pages is a very cool tool. I like that it's international. I like the Map feature. I like that it links you directly to that paper's website. I can think of a few instances where this could have been helpful. (I had a patron looking for the French newspapers write up on a tennis match, and this would have made it less difficult than it was, which was more difficult than it should have been in the first place.) So it is helpful in that it can pinpoint a few big papers per region and link you to them. Do I see value in the "big picture" of viewing just the front page of all these papers? Eh. Not really. Sure, it's cool, but not super informative. I mean, the headlines in Maryland don't really interest me all that much. Overall, its a potentially helpful resource to keep in the helpful resource file in my head.