Oh hey, do you read the Washington Post on the internets? If you do, you may have noticed that they quietly rolled out a new design last week — and if the 11 million responses to their announcement on the blog are any indication, it’s a hit!

I suppose the objective was to make the paper itself as difficult as possible for the filthy liberals to read, and comment on all the lies and propaganda you publish.

Posted by: newspaperman506 | April 1, 2007 12:36 PM

That’s one randomly selected comment, and the rest of them are in almost complete agreement that everything about the new homepage is a terrible travesty on par with the massacre of the Indians and Shakespeare in Love’s Oscar.

It turns out readers don’t like pointless click-thrus, more white space, and making more room for millions of ads (oh hi, Denton).

More reader responses, after the jump.

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WHAT DO WE DO? SOMEONE HELP US DECODE THE COCKTAIL CHATTER OF BELTWAY INSIDERS!!! MORE »

Ok, so we had Richard Pombo listed as a Democrat for about 45 minutes today. That’s nothing. Here’s an item (courtesy FishbowlDC) from page 21 of today’s Washington Express: MORE »

Hey, everyone! The Washington Post found YouTube! Did you hear about those Brokeback Mountain parodies? What about that Snakes on a Plane, what’s with that? Did you know that this new internet video revolution is something of a double-edged sword? It raises issues! Copyright and stuff! MORE »

How, we thought, will we ever catch up on all the news we missed last week, while on our sponsored Happy Hour Tour of the upper Mississippi? So many stories come and gone — and in this fast-paced electronic New Media paradise, why, missing a week of the Note is like missing a year of Huntley-Brinkley! If only there was some service, some regular feature that summed up stuff that was in the news last week… a sort of “week in review,” but less substantive and with more arbitrary rankings and numbers…

Of course! It’s Dana Milbank’s celebrated and beloved feature, the Zeitgeist Checklist. This week’s checklist is checked, after the jump:

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Last week, we (acting against the recommendations of our doctors) mocked Dana Milbank’s new regular feature, CW “The Zeitgeist Checklist” (confidential to WPNI: We are also available to write lists of headline w/ arrows in exchange for lots and lots of money). This week, we are embarrassed to admit that we’re going to do it again.

We note first that Slate has not yet picked up Dana’s “This Week In Last Week” column. That’s no way to maximize synergy, Weisberg. On that note, here’s to the classes that chatter, and what they’ll be chattering about — we highlight a couple items worthy of futher investigation, after the jump.

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