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“Moveable Type” to end 17-year run in The New York Times’s lobby
- rcdemski 2y agoNot being familiar with the installation I found this video super informative: https://youtu.be/WfZQf1983iw?si=wvh-GIj6XIEwWGlA https://youtu.be/WfZQf1983iw?si=wvh-GIj6XIEwWGlA
- ThePowerOfFuet 2y agoTracking-free link: Not being familiar with the installation I found this video super informative: https://youtu.be/WfZQf1983iw https://youtu.be/WfZQf1983iw
- hprotagonist 2y agoah, not the blogging platform.
- mattl 2y agoStill around but you don’t see it much now. There was a GPL version and a fork but WordPress ate a lot of MT market share.
- mikepurvis 2y agoNotably still used to publish daringfireball, but yeah it’s certainly not common to see these days: https://daringfireball.net/colophon/ https://daringfireball.net/colophon/
- handfuloflight 2y ago[dead]
- brimtown 2y agoI work in this building - it’s a wonderful experience walking through it every morning, and will be sad to see it go!
- marxisttemp 2y ago[flagged]
- daemonologist 2y agoHoly moly that's like $300k in vacuum fluorescent displays (probably much more since they're exceptionally large). Those things are not cheap.
- ink_13 2y agoWell, in that case the good news is that they're being returned to the artists
- Tanoc 2y agoIt makes me wonder how difficult it would be to create a shader in order to replace everything with LED or even eInk displays. The cost is certainly a large factor as print news suffers more and more capital depletion.
- somat 2y agoI did not know that general raster vfd's were a thing, I have only ever seen the application specific ones. And without giving it much thought, figured that was the limits of the tech.
- Bluecobra 2y agoFor the actual movable type, there’s a great documentary called Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu about the final day the NY Times used Linotype: https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
- mesofile 2y agoI watched this again recently and was struck by how the last few lines of narration land very differently now.
- user3939382 2y ago[flagged]
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- ido 2y agoAP news?
- getcrunk 2y agoI’m curious according to you what news organizations are not?
- user3939382 2y agoI’m curious if you think any of these corporate media networks are actually speaking truth to power.
- Larrikin 2y agoI'm curious why you answered a question with a question instead of actually answering.
- user3939382 2y agoIf you’ve ever discussed politics with people online you’d know why.
- astrange 2y agoIt's funny because the NYT currently has a policy of never saying anything positive about the current president (as in the editor has said this in writing), for the sole reason that they're mad he hasn't given them an interview yet.
- ciabattabread 2y agoThe lobby had public access all this time?
- phlakaton 2y agoWhen there are not protests, yeah.
- jmathai 2y agoI thought this was going to be a post about New York Times deprecating use of the Movable Type blogging platform. I was wrong but it brought back some good memories!
- filmgirlcw 2y agoGenuinely, same! And I knew intrinsically that that was wrong (The Times uses or used WordPress in some capacity), but I thought “maybe it was a weird straggler” — but nope. Turns out the art installation I’ve seen countless times had a name.
- karmajunkie 2y agoI had the same thought! Interestingly the blog software moveabletype is still alive and kicking, which I did not know before now... https://www.movabletype.org/ https://www.movabletype.org/
- tempodox 2y ago> Before finalizing their design, Rubin and Hansen spent two years observing and interviewing… I wish we could have this much attention to detail more often for software projects.
- matteason 2y agoThe same artists created a similar piece called Listening Post, which I love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzfnndd9fCk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzfnndd9fCk I built a much more basic web-based version of it, using Twitter posts, a few years ago. It stopped working when the Twitter API became paid-for, but I screen-recorded a demo of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaRenG89G9g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaRenG89G9g