The venerable Danish newspaper Information has just relaunched their website, and they have done it in style. Editor Palle Weis writes that from now on the archive will be free (containing articles going ten years back), making Information’s choice another example of the enduring power of free. The newspaper will use tagging to help the user navigate in the new and old material, and the site will link to external sources, because, as Weis says, Information cannot cover everything themselves:
The most important thing for newspaper readers is not whether we or anybody else have written the article. We believe that the internet user will return to information.dk — as long as we send them to substantial articles that are worth reading.
And maybe the most original: Information is made completely with the open source publishing system Drupal. They must be one of very few traditional newspapers to choose such a radical solution. In fact, there is a small club forming — The Open Source Newspaper.
Information began its existence as an illegal newspaper in Nazi-occupied Denmark. It is left-leaning but has always been fiercely independent and is well-known in Scandinavia as a quality newspaper. (via Dagens Medier).
