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Washington Post ombudsman, Deborah Howell, tallies photos of Obama and McCain appearing in the newspaper. Ed Thiede, assistant managing editor for the news desk, said that the numbers are “eye-opening. We should be more cognizant.”

Andy Rutledge shares a prototype he helped create for Adaptive Path that imagines what the New York Times sports Web site might look like a few years into the future. It’s part of the Aurora browser concept.

“These grand designs must have stories to back them up,” Harold Evans says of recent redesigns — 35 years after publishing Editing and Design.

Mark Porter, The Guardian’s creative director, calls the redesign of the Sunday Times, “a missed opportunity.”

Meanwhile, on his blog, Mario Garcia concludes “all in all, a redesign that shows great impact, elegance of type, and one worthy of studying.”

The Blog likes a good graphics site.

But a site that does things like flow charts of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance”? Or pie charts of Amy Winehouse’s responses to rehab? Or venn diagrams of people who love Ferris Bueller?

The Blog LOVES that kind of site.

Region 15 director, Alan Formby-Jackson, has posted an excellent overview of The Times of London redesign.

At waxy.org, Andy Baio interviews Alan Taylor, creator of Boston Globe’s The Big Picture — a bare-bones blog of photojournalism that’s been getting rave reviews from around the net.

Continuing our Scandinavian theme this week: I Love Typography (a fantastic site, by the way) has a great interview with Stockholm’s Stefan Hattenbach, who started his own independent foundry and design studio, MAC Rhino Fonts, in 2003. Read it here.

“Let’s not bury the lead: This is a rough time for the newspaper business, a rough time for The Washington Post and a rough time for me,” writes Howard Kurtz in his Media Notes column.

The New York Times plans to release an API that will allow users to “mash-up” the NYT’s data. “The plan is definitely to open [the code] up,” said Marc Frons, chief technology officer for The New York Times’ digital side. “How far we don’t know.”