Boy did I want to give this website a BIG thumbs up, but ultimately I could not.
This "newseum" hosts the first page of of nearly 500 newspapers from over 50 countries around the globe. It holds the promise of letting a visitor scan the front page of each of those newspapers. Now that's interesting! Really!
I checked in one day not long ago and saw that a road race to benefit the needy and a terrorist attack were the big two stories for The Sacramento Bee. Meanwhile, along the same half of the USA, The Anchorage Daily News was focused on new methods for making sand work better on icy roads during the coming winter and how President Chavez is offering free heat to Venezuelans. See? Interesting.
My half-hearted endorsement comes from several items. It lists papers in a few different groupings such as world region (Caribbean, Middle East, European, etc.), alphabetically, or bypins on a map, but only the regional list is useful. The pages are a tad load intensive and can slow down viewing. Also, other than a peek at each page, there's not much here. The analysis of what each paper deems "newsworthy" is left to you to examine.
Still, if you're the curious type give it a peek at
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