I have to give a lot of respect to NYT. Whether this project sticks or not, it's things like this that make me think NYT is going to be one of the few newspapers to survive the crisis hitting the papers (albeit in a much smaller and much different form). They're one of the few newspapers at least trying to get it. Others are just complaining while hemorrhaging money.
I don't care for the NYT's editorial stances or reporting for the most part, but they've really been pushing the envelope in terms of using the newspaper's website as more than a paperless version of a dead-tree product. I could point to any number of their news-related projects. The election had a number of great ways to present election results. Their Faces of the Dead feature was also... how to avoid breaking the etiquette here... I'm going to go with "technically well-executed".
