The aspect I found most interesting - and this was mentioned in passing only - was that there was a second system for displaying what the issues of the day were

The aspect I found most interesting - and this was mentioned in passing only - was that there was a second system for displaying what the issues of the day were in a quick fashion. When there was mention of the international community, the UN helmet went up on the roof. When there was something about fuel prices, a bottle of (what was meant to look like) fuel was up there. The cleverness, I think, lies in how dead-simple symbols that people already associate were used. Doesn't matter if you've just come to Monrovia and don't know what the Daily Talk is - if you saw a UN helmet on the building, you'd think that there was something associated with the UN going on there. If that interested you, you'd walk over and see what it was (in this case, the news) - if not, you'd continue on your way. It almost reminds me of the home-screen notifications on BlackBerrys/iPhones - a simple sentinel indicating the presence of more related information - but much better executed, since the vocabulary used isn't platform-specific (i.e. the Daily Talk didn't make up its own signals to use, they used ones that people already associated).