I just poked around for a few minutes looking at the css grid he used for making it. It's interesting stuff. I think that what the newspaper layout does is make the newspaper readable while you walk by, over someone's shoulder, from various distances, etc.<p>These are newspaper problems. They don't exist when you're reading a screen. Novels or magazines aren't formatted this way. Why should sites be? It's not about content. It's about how/when you read it.<p>That said, I have learned something about how to layout a page in a way that looks like news. I suspect the main value of this is creating a mental association with a newspaper.