Slate: Calculated Refinement or Simple Inertia
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/slate_calculated_refinement_or_simple_inertia.php

Garrett, Jesse James
Boxes and Arrows
2002

Abstract:

From an information architecture perspective, a daily web publication presents challenges and possibilities no newspaper editor ever had to face. As one of the longest-running daily publications on the web, Slate has dealt with these issues for years.