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Is it me or is the article way too long?
by chris_mahan 14y ago
Is it me or is the article way too long?
- tptacek 14y agoIt is just you. That article is a classic in long-form investigative journalism.
- yeoldestuff 14y agoGod how I miss that. Where can I find 100's more like this, _on the web_?
- tptacek 14y agoEasy: Longform.org. Slate aggregates and curates some of these: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/longform.html http://www.slate.com/articles/life/longform.html
- yeoldestuff 14y agoSweet. Thanks.
- zalew 14y agohttp://longreads.com http://longreads.com http://longform.org http://longform.org
- henrikschroder 14y agoSweet! Found an old longform article I had lost the link to and couldn't google back either. Thanks!
- vidarh 14y agoEntirely off topic to this post, but given the HN audience, this is one of my all time favorite long form articles: "Mother Earth Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson. Wired. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html It's about FLAG - Fibre Optic Link Around the Globe. 40k+ words.
- jcastro 14y agoThat's how I started figuring out it wasn't a recent article. I ran into this link from the G+ HN circle and didn't see a mention of the date. Then about 1/3 of the way through I started thinking "what the hell, no article can be this long", then I looked at the date. A great read though, it does a lot to remind us how articles used to be back in the day before our current attention spans.