Slateiness is next to Googliness

Put simply, reading Slate clarifies things in a way I have yet to see a newspaper do. Starting with good writers (Daniel Gross, Fred Kaplan, even Hitchens), great guest writers (Henry Blodget), great conversations, great cartoons, and with little things like using hyperlinks. It's fascinating to me how online newspapers still get away without linking to obvious online sources, government websites, research papers, other news websites (for those stories about a single scandalous quote). Slate is different in a lot of ways, and what says it perfectly to me is: A Slate writer never wastes a readers time. I don't know if I can say that for any other news source, apart from very few blogs, and one monthly news magazine (Harpers).

After The Washington Post Company bought Slate from Microsoft (1 out of 1.5 good things the company has started), and sqished the Business and Technology section into one, it's hasn't changed much editorially, which is good. The website sadly still looks the same since I regularly started reading Slate in 97-98 maybe. The search function could use some Googleiness. I have no complaints otherwise.