What's this then? No, it's not a bingo card, and neither is it a Tetris-style computer game. It's actually what a newspaper looks like before it's been born.
This is very much a picture to sum up most of my working Mondays - the electronic plan for the newspaper I work on every week. Each oblong is a page, and each colour means something different - white is editorial space (ie, news), yellow is a classified advertisement (ie, motoring or property or recruitment) and blue is a regular "run of paper" advertisement.
It looks crazy, doesn't it, but it makes (almost) complete sense to me. How it gets from this colourful mess to what you buy in the shops is where the real labour lies...
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