Comments on: NYTimesBlogAnnotation

NYTimesBlogAnnotation

srboisvert — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:44:58 -0800

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:52:17 -0800

[This is good.]

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:59:30 -0800

This looks really neat. I'll check it out in further depth later when I'm not being crushed under the weight of convoluted potential research papers, but first glance suggests neatness. It might even be rad, but I'm not willing to make that leap yet. Thanks, srboisvert ;)

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:06:13 -0800

Looks a bit... rich. I'll definitely be coming here when I need some serious analysis of world events - hope it sticks around.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:42:06 -0800

What's really cool about this, and I think it qualifies as rad, is that they have the entire blog entry, so it acts as an aggregator for each story. You don't have to click through to the individual blogs at all unless you want to comment or read the comments. For some blogs, of course you would want to, for instance they list amberglow's good post about Delay, and the entry is just his text, without any of the things added by other MeFites. But for getting a sense of how people are addressing a particular article, it's quite good. And then of course, bloggers may well have tracked down articles at other sources about things that they care about, so many of the entries really pull in a lot of information. Great post!

By: p3t3

p3t3 — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:50:20 -0800

Sweet! Now I just have to decide whether to bookmark it in the Blogs folder or the News folder...

By: me3dia

me3dia — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:03:56 -0800

Very interesting. I'd love to see more of these for other publications.

By: Kellydamnit

Kellydamnit — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:09:36 -0800

What a great idea! Hopefully the NYT won't give them any grief over it.

By: peacay

peacay — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:18:28 -0800

p3t3...agreed. It's a tentacled octoblog. It smacks of TMI in a way. But it's also a great idea. I'll have to have a good ferret around and get my bearings.

By: Postroad

Postroad — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:20:12 -0800

The New York Times for Dummies! seems it is useful for those who need a secondary source to exaplain things to them or to let them know what they are suposed to think about an article in the newspaper.

By: thehippe

thehippe — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:02:51 -0800

Yes Postroad, the intelligent reader should never bother with other opinions.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:12:48 -0800

seems it is useful for those who need a secondary source to exaplain things to them or to let them know what they are suposed to think about an article in the newspaper.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:37:40 -0800

I couldn't find any information on this or the BlogRunner site about how a blog becomes part of the daily scan. What blogs are watched for citations?

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:38:30 -0800

Oh, and don't mind Postroad, thehippie... she just doesn't understand what "annotate" means.

By: republican

republican — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:19:33 -0800

Here is something similar: http://web.media.mit.edu/~golder/projects/webbedfootnotes/

By: thehippe

thehippe — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 02:59:47 -0800

Who is thehippie ?

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 05:02:05 -0800

cool : >

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 17:29:51 -0800

My apologies to thehippe, and thehippie, whoever he is.