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- detritus
No, linearch, I didn't know that you could click on any word in an NYT article and get an in-site definition.. that's really cool!
It's strange when you think about it, how we are surprised by such depth of information on a site. After all, it's hypertext - it's exactly what the 'web' is supposed to be.
Also, thanks for reminding me that the NYT is free now!
- 5timuli0
That site is not friends with my eyeballs. And where is this technology you speak of? I click and get fuck all. Is this 1986? Is this Wall Street? Where's Martin Sheen?
- 5timuli0
Oh I see, he forgot the word 'double' as in:
dou·ble‑click /ˈdʌbəlˈkl... –verb (used without object)
1. to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession
- 5timuli0
So... they built the site for dumbasses? Is that who the NY Times are marketing their site towards these days?
- jamble0
It's a nice touch.
*Double clicks NT, nothing happens, stops double clicking*
- detritus0
I was just earlier chatting with a friend about hypertext - we wondered why it was still difficult for an average individual to create true hypertext documents. Sure, there is blogging software - but when you compare the base organisational functionality of the very first web 'browsers' (which were essentially two-way, with page editing facilities) to today's offerings, it would be seem we've strayed somewhere.
Current GUI web editors are far too complex and bloated for the average punter, and seem to focus on the design and interaction complexity, rather than informational hyperlinking. Blogging options are essentially linear and most CMS solutions are way beyond most people's grasp.
The closest approximations to the original ideals would be things like wikis - but these are still third-party entities, islands of organisation, necessarily locked-away from people's personal lists or notes, stored and accessed on their own terms.
Where is the middle road between the people's "external web" and "internal email"? Most people get access to web space when they sign up online - so why isn't basic web page editing functionality built in to browsers?
It seems that, despite all its developments, despite the huge social penetration it has and the benefits it so obviously brings - the development of web content is still mostly in the domain of 'The Other' - be that the webdesigner, programmer, external website, corporation, media organisation, or whatever.
It's late, I might be just babbling, but I have a point in there somwhere, I'm sure of it.
- Witt0
So... they built the site for dumbasses? Is that who the NY Times are marketing their site towards these days?
5timuli
(Nov 8 07, 20:19)NYT is probably the most international newspaper today - and a very good one. It's one of the few places were there is still some journalism going on. Thousands (millions?) of people not native to English read it everyday. Even that people have to know English to read it obviously, sometimes there are words or expressions for a foreigner that need a definition or a synonym.
- CyBrain0
The NYT use to be totally free online. Now there are paid sections, but still mostly free.
- pixzen0
Can someone explain what I'm meant to be seeing as double-clicking the words doesn't do anything in Firefox or IE?
- 5timuli0
Turn off pop-up blockers.
- pixzen0
Still nothing...
- radar0
does nothing for me either in firefox or IE on a PC?
- Rand0
everything is free now. my daily delivery gets me no perks