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If you're interested in observing this in realtime, there's a great Twitter account called @nyt_diff[0] that automatically posts when headlines on the front pag
by ftio 6y ago
If you're interested in observing this in realtime, there's a great Twitter account called @nyt_diff[0] that automatically posts when headlines on the front page change. Really cool to watch articles get updated as stories evolve. It's particularly interesting to witness headline writers grapple with how and how much to editorialize.
[0] https://twitter.com/nyt_diff https://twitter.com/nyt_diff
- TeeMassive 6y agoCool bot. I'm a keyboard warrior and I've been burned by the NYT and other "mainstream" news site stealth changes multiple times. Now when a big story comes out I save the page using SingleFile to Dropbox and when the edited part comes up in the conversation I compare both versions copied paste with Copy PlainText and Meld which allows me to post nice screenshots of the diff.
- exikyut 6y agoAgh, this is using a horribly noisy diffing algorithm. With quite a few of the posts I'd just present them side by side, with the differences highlighted.
- drak0n1c 6y agoThere's a project inspired by nyt diff and NewsDiffs and working on improving the algorithm and supporting many more news outlets: https://github.com/DocNow/diffengine https://github.com/DocNow/diffengine