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Joshua Topolsky and Paul Ford discussed the piece here: https://soundcloud.com/tomorrowpodcast/episode-10-paul-ford-and-josh-whip-the-dip https://soundcloud.com
by runj__ 11y ago
Joshua Topolsky and Paul Ford discussed the piece here:
https://soundcloud.com/tomorrowpodcast/episode-10-paul-ford-and-josh-whip-the-dip https://soundcloud.com/tomorrowpodcast/episode-10-paul-ford-...
One part of the podcast that stuck with me was the idea of an article as an event. It really was quite a while ago people talked about a text as an event. I mean, like a new book or something.
I guess Buzzfeed (and the like, which is everyone nowadays) is sort of trying to pay for their real journalism with "aww"-clicks and "omg!"-clicks, it wouldn't surprise me if cool articles like this became more of a commonplace thing.
- skybrian 11y agoLots of websites have been attempting to turn their long online feature articles into events. This goes back at least to when New York Times did Snowfall, and probably earlier. I assume that's why Paul Ford got the job on this one. But they don't appear every day. Or maybe they do, but not always as successfully? I agree that another success means that we'll probably see more attempts.