Friday, September 23, 2005
Swallowed by the Web
And, just as people began to read yesterday's blog about Fairfield receiving national media attention, the recycled its content. Easy come ...
This does represent a unique problem on the Web. When USAToday changes the content of a story, what happens to the content that is ommitted? Well, to the user, it simply disappearhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifs. The Web is a great medium for building context, but what happens if that context is ephemeral? Aren't we then looking ata a glorified broadcast model of journalism?
USAToday should keep log archives or at least provide links to other photos within a story (like the New York Times and Washington Post do).
How irritating ...
This does represent a unique problem on the Web. When USAToday changes the content of a story, what happens to the content that is ommitted? Well, to the user, it simply disappearhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifs. The Web is a great medium for building context, but what happens if that context is ephemeral? Aren't we then looking ata a glorified broadcast model of journalism?
USAToday should keep log archives or at least provide links to other photos within a story (like the New York Times and Washington Post do).
How irritating ...
