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Before a few weeks ago, those reading a significant amount of mainstream media content online primarily saw Jurassic-period philosophies from those at the top of information gathering: it was an image of aging, traditionally-oriented journalistic institutions striving to understand (and fitfully adapt to) the distribution of information on the Web. As always, sites such as NYTimes.com and CNN.com were laughably far behind: two of the most visited news sites online carried the same left-aligned, 800×600-optimised, heavily-table-based layouts that designers (or overly zealous Web enthusiasts) would have called “so Web 1.0.”