I read the paper ass-backwards so didn’t really register the links on the news pages until later. I was thinking more of the articles, comment pieces and features that appear in G2 and the opinion pages, especially the slightly more ephemeral ones such as the Amy Jenkins piece which I was quite tempted to tear to shreds.

I can see how this is probably tricky to implement and not necessarily worth it though.

Gordon, there website Does have a page where you can find all the headlines from the paper in one place, it’s here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian/todays_stories

And as for the reason the section front urls are given at the end of stories, rather than a tiny url, it’s partly because they land you in a place where you can easily find not only the story from the paper you’re looking for, but also any updates on the story that have been added during the day, interactive guides, audio reports, that kind of thing. There are dozens upon dozens of special report fronts that get updated every night, so that when a story on China ends with a url simply pointing you to /china, the story you want will be right at the top of that front, plus other useful stuff.

Um.
I only know about website things.
Can’t help with Doonesbury.

It’s a bit strange – there are very few strips that continually generate their own news stories, and Doonesbury is one of them. And, looking at the back page of G2 its obviously purely a space constraint.

Disappointed.

Grauniad indeed!

Spurgeon has been notified.

Full transcript of email: “We are no longer publishing Doonesbury. Steve Bell’s If now appears on the back of G2 and we will be publishing the brilliant Perry Bible Fellowship strip weekly. Doonesbury is available from http://www.doonesbury.com”

Odd thing is, I read Doonesbury online anyway (at least when the unofficial RSS feed is working) so this doesn’t affect me but the principle seems worth fighting for, at least for an explanation. It’s not like it was getting irrelevant or stale – if anything he’s on a roll right now. Very odd.

I think a Doonesbury campaign is in order.

Gareth – I think the Guardian has always had a stronger following from the arty/design community and the old design was pretty radical in itself with all that Helvetica about the place. That said, the Times and Indy tabloids were very poorly implemented. This one seems to work which is interesting.

I think there was a bit too much hype about the colour printing. It just looked like shit newsprint reproduction to me. Nice photos, shame about the repro. And one of the pages in my copy was set off a bit giving the reporter very googly eyes.