"But my favorite interview was getting to talk with Architect Derek Gottfrid, who told me about this thing called Time Machine which is an archive of old issues of the New York Times that you will be able to look through — he gave me a good demo of it in the video I filmed. He told me how they used Amazon’s EC2 service to convert all the TIFF images to PDFs for this project. Then he also told me that Times Machine would be released (today)"
Scoble on a tour he got of this and other technologies at the "gray lady"
Also, here is a fascinating description of the signage on its new headquarters
"How do you add a block-long, 15-foot-tall blackletter logo to the front of a minimalist building without obstructing the view of the Times staffers working inside? The answer was to break the sign up into smaller pieces, 959 of them to be exact. Each letter in the Times logo was rasterized, that is, divided into narrow horizontal strips, ranging in number from 26 (the i in “Times”) to 161 (the Y in “York”)."
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