Bring Back Free Clicking!

 Economics and Advertising, Links, Media  Add comments
Feb 282007
 
Man, I’m really glad someone wrote this.

Short summary: the NY Times has implemented a new function where double-clicking on any word on the site (i.e., not links, just regular text) makes a new window pop up with a helpful definition of the word. This includes such words as “the,” “green,” and “Spanish.” For those of us who semi-compulsively mess around with the text we read, this is a disruptive disaster. Thus the campaign to bring back free clicking. Please consider passing this along to your many friends and encouraging them to do the same, until we bring the paper of record to its east-coast liberal knees.

 Posted by JHW at 10:05 am
  • http://www.supinefever.com supine

    So does the NY Times have to hire people to write/find definitions for every word, and computer people to put all those links in there for every single story on the site?? That seems like a gargantuan project.

    Imagine having to define a primary color. I mean, that’s mind-blowing, man.

  • http://www.en-dash.com Jake

    The whole thing is linked to an online dictionary site, or something like that. So it was just a matter of a little coding (and giving someone money, I imagine).

   
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