[Following is my recent reply to a comment on importance of permance in newspaper UI.  I felt it deserved to be a post on its own.]

Regarding permanence, a particularly striking example is the way [we] remember articles in weekly or monthly magazines by the cover picture. Time, Scientific American, etc.  I still remember BYTE Smalltalk articles by the multicolored baloons on the cover. On the other hand, I am disturbed by the fact that I can't recollect individual issues of Playboy by the cover. <g> I think its because I was focusing mostly on the body and not the face. I haven't asked Time magazine editors about it, but I'll bet FACES make the most effective cover materials for 'memory-stamping'.

[this is newly added]

What I liked about Wall Street Journal is the way they frequently include copperplate-engaving style headshot pictures.  I think same thing came be done for bloggers.  Frankly, I never liked the 'shot from the bottom of Chinese takeout box'-style pictures popular among bloggers.