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Better quality photos with descriptions available at the original source, the Boston Globe's Big Picture: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/09/human_landsca

Better quality photos with descriptions available at the original source, the Boston Globe's Big Picture: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/09/human_landscapes_in_sw_florida.html http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/09/human_landscapes_in...

ojbyrne 16y ago
And I posted that here last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1743918 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1743918 HN's algorithm is interesting lately. My posting had more upvotes, I have better karma than this poster, it was on the day it appeared on the Big Picture, and linked to the original, not to some blogspammer. Mine never got above the second page.
- gojomo 16y ago
  Headlines are everything. "The Big Picture: Human Landscapes in SW Florida" is a lot more cryptic and boring than "Aerial Footage: Portrait of a Housing Bust". Also, I suspect that on weekdays, submissions and voting traffic are higher. That means more votes are required to reach the front page, and less time is spent on page one of 'new' to earn those votes.
  - ojbyrne 16y ago
    Your second point is valid, and even your first point, but I do try to be honest in the choosing the headline. It's the original headline, with "The Big Picture:" added at the beginning and in this case there's plenty of pictures on the Big Picture page that don't necessarily represent a "bust." It seems that, if I accept your first point, I also have to accept that HN is becoming more sensationalistic, and I (and I suspect, others), are unhappy about that.
coin 16y ago
The picture loading is annoying too (doesn't load until you scroll down). The boston.com loads normally.
brudgers 16y ago
The implication of the original article is also misleading, as several of the most compelling images are of failed General Development Corporation projects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Development_Corporation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Development_Corporation Not only do they do represent the previous land bust of 1970's rather than the more recent one, but many of the lots became undevelopable due to the Statewide mandatory Comprehensive Planning for local governments; participation of local governments in the Federal Flood Insurance program; and environmental laws regulating wetlands and protecting endangered species (e.g. gopher tortoises and raptors such as bald eagles). In the large undeveloped tracts from the 1960's like those depicted, lots were often available for the cost of delinquent property taxes even at the peak of the last bubble due to the lack of development potential.

ojbyrne 16y ago

And I posted that here last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1743918 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1743918 HN's algorithm is interesting lately. My posting had more upvotes, I have better karma than this poster, it was on the day it appeared on the Big Picture, and linked to the original, not to some blogspammer. Mine never got above the second page.

gojomo 16y ago
Headlines are everything. "The Big Picture: Human Landscapes in SW Florida" is a lot more cryptic and boring than "Aerial Footage: Portrait of a Housing Bust". Also, I suspect that on weekdays, submissions and voting traffic are higher. That means more votes are required to reach the front page, and less time is spent on page one of 'new' to earn those votes.
- ojbyrne 16y ago
  Your second point is valid, and even your first point, but I do try to be honest in the choosing the headline. It's the original headline, with "The Big Picture:" added at the beginning and in this case there's plenty of pictures on the Big Picture page that don't necessarily represent a "bust." It seems that, if I accept your first point, I also have to accept that HN is becoming more sensationalistic, and I (and I suspect, others), are unhappy about that.

coin 16y ago

The picture loading is annoying too (doesn't load until you scroll down). The boston.com loads normally.

brudgers 16y ago

The implication of the original article is also misleading, as several of the most compelling images are of failed General Development Corporation projects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Development_Corporation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Development_Corporation Not only do they do represent the previous land bust of 1970's rather than the more recent one, but many of the lots became undevelopable due to the Statewide mandatory Comprehensive Planning for local governments; participation of local governments in the Federal Flood Insurance program; and environmental laws regulating wetlands and protecting endangered species (e.g. gopher tortoises and raptors such as bald eagles). In the large undeveloped tracts from the 1960's like those depicted, lots were often available for the cost of delinquent property taxes even at the peak of the last bubble due to the lack of development potential.