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Saving Journalism With Flash and Java

Posted by kdawson on from the looking-forward-and-looking-back dept.

An anonymous reader writes "New York magazine has a story about some of the flashy new ideas that are coming out of the labs of the New York Times. The piece prompted Peter Wayner to dig up some of the old Java applets he wrote to explore whether more promiscuity really stops AIDS and whether baseball can do anything to speed up the games. He notes that these took a great deal of work to produce and it's not possible to do them on a daily basis. Furthermore, they're cranky and fragile, perhaps thanks to Java. Are cool, interactive features the future of journalism on the web? Or will simple ASCII text continue to be the most efficient way for us to mingle our thoughts, especially when ASCII text won't generate a classloading error?"

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  1. It all make sense! by malkir · · Score: -1, Troll

    So if I stick my peen in MORE girls it LESSENS my chances of finding one with AIDS? SWEET.

  2. saving journalism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The only thing that could possibly save journalism would be for them to report the news in an unbiased and objective form. Since most journalists have already sold their souls to the Democrat Party - and to socialism in general that will never happen. They will not be missed.