The Geeks on the Front Lines
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The Geeks on the Front Lines
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Re: The Geeks on the Front Lines
#2Now, that is awesome JS work.
Re: The Geeks on the Front Lines
#3Now, that is awesome JS work.
It's really great whenever I get to see media folks actually using web tech to display a story in an awesome, creative way, instead of just serving more social media garbage.
We have hyper-media for all now, so we really should encourage using it.
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#4I'm mixed. Animation aside, some of the decorative formatting that has always made for beautiful print pieces really seems to get in the way on the web. Not sure I can explain why exactly. I was impressed by the effects (in a novelty, how'd-they-pull-that-off sort of way), but I can tell you this: I didn't read a word of the article. I was too busy playing with the animations. I think it's fair to say the content was upstaged.
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#5I really try to avoid criticising (it's the easiest route) but come on!, if you are writing an article about hackers then a clean, clear semantically valid document would have impressed me a lot more.
That just hurt my eyes and the gaudy crap distracts from the writing (which in this instance was a blessed mercy).
Rolling Stone is better than this.
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#6I have personally been enjoying articles laid out in this way. They are a unique format that could not have worked in a pre-internet era. For years it has felt like the magazines/old media/etc were just trying to bring an old format to a new medium. Now some are starting to actually leverage the medium to expand their old format.
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#7Is there a printable, text-only version? The animation is distracting and my CPU fan is spinning because of it.
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#8Couldn't read, the format sucks.
Sites are more worried about "wowing" than making the content readable nowadays. There's a pressure from advertising, and the novelty factor gets them a lot of exposition, mentions and pageviews, but that comes at the expense of bounce rate.
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#9Like others, I was having trouble focusing on the text of the article. ViewText.org is down and I don't have any browser plugins for increasing readability, so this made it a bit better for me:
http://google.com/gwt/x?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%...
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#10I like how the "heart of America's cyberdefense" or whatever they called this 'NCCIC' looks like it runs Windows 2000... (yeah, yeah, probably just a theme, but still, it's kind of funny. I have a hard time taking such things seriously once I see they aren't using a *nix.)