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Philip Greenspun had some pretty choice words on MIT Media Lab. http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/suck http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/suck Scroll down to E
by watmough 16y ago
Philip Greenspun had some pretty choice words on MIT Media Lab.
http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/suck http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/suck
Scroll down to Example 3.
It sure looks like Greenspun's page, using simple formatting, has aged very very many times better than anything the MIT Media Lab would have been doing.
- jacobolus 16y agoThe Media Lab does all kinds of neat research. The point of Greenspun’s argument is that the purely promotional website structure designed by generic managers, even ones who manage a lab that does neat stuff, is much less useful to its intended audience (potential grad students) than a website designed for some concrete purpose like explaining the first-person history of computer science. You shouldn’t misrepresent his words to be an all-purpose indictment of the Media Lab.