Charles Apple

Express-News design director Dean Lockwood tipped us off a few hours ago, but we were busy watching The Spirit on DVD (don’t bother, by the way; it really sucks), so we didn’t get the word until just now.

Dean writes:

Kind of an experiment, but Scott Stoddard is taking a shot at Twitpic-ing development of our front page on an hourly basis through the night.

It will be more interesting on some nights than others, but an interesting thing to play with. Our managing editor also digs it as a quickie way to follow the front page.

Each hour or so, Scott — apparently — photographs his monitor and then posts the picture at Twitter.

At 5 p.m. (and remember, all times are Central Daylight):

At 6 p.m.:

At 7 p.m.:

At 8 p.m.:

At 9 p.m.:

At 10 p.m.:

At 11 p.m.:

At midnight:

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UPDATE:

And, at 1 a.m., here’s the finished product:

Here’s the page as it looks at the Newseum today:

Check out Scott’s TwitPic feed here.

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