Comments on: The New York Times' Bizzare World http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/ a diary of sorts Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:29:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: sd http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/comment-page-1/#comment-742 sd Sun, 27 Jul 2003 18:50:33 +0000 http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/#comment-742 I have news for you: a neocon even hinting that something a republican president did doesn't instantly qualify him for Mt. Rushmore, if not sainthood qualifies as trenchant criticism. I have news for you: a neocon even hinting that something a republican president did doesn’t instantly qualify him for Mt. Rushmore, if not sainthood qualifies as trenchant criticism.

]]> By: hewler http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/comment-page-1/#comment-741 hewler Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:25:33 +0000 http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/#comment-741 So I start reading the comments, and I'm like, <i>"Huh?</i> Why is 'Annoying Old Guy' explaining how to make a trademark symbol?" So I scroll back up through the main post, looking and looking to see where a trademark symbol had been wanted -- to figure out what exactly had spurred 'Annoying Old Guy' to offer an explanation. I was about to chalk it up to 'Annoying Old Guy' just being senile, and then... ...And then I realized, "Oh, it's just another user-unfriendly blogger who has his comments backwards." A comments thread is like a continuing conversation -- a conversation that begins after your post and carries on. It is only logical, then, to have comments running from oldest to newest, top to bottom. Running them in reverse is counterintuitive, and not very nice to readers. If you are new online, which this discovery makes me suspect, then take this as a piece of helpful advice. So I start reading the comments, and I’m like, “Huh? Why is ‘Annoying Old Guy’ explaining how to make a trademark symbol?”

So I scroll back up through the main post, looking and looking to see where a trademark symbol had been wanted — to figure out what exactly had spurred ‘Annoying Old Guy’ to offer an explanation. I was about to chalk it up to ‘Annoying Old Guy’ just being senile, and then…

…And then I realized, “Oh, it’s just another user-unfriendly blogger who has his comments backwards.”

A comments thread is like a continuing conversation — a conversation that begins after your post and carries on. It is only logical, then, to have comments running from oldest to newest, top to bottom. Running them in reverse is counterintuitive, and not very nice to readers.

If you are new online, which this discovery makes me suspect, then take this as a piece of helpful advice.

]]> By: Annoying Old Guy http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/comment-page-1/#comment-740 Annoying Old Guy Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:24:59 +0000 http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/#comment-740 Tongue Boy; If your posting or writing on the web, just type ™ to get a trademark (™) symbol. Tongue Boy;

If your posting or writing on the web, just type &trade; to get a trademark (™) symbol.

]]> By: Cindy http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/comment-page-1/#comment-739 Cindy Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:31:24 +0000 http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/#comment-739 A case of using a headline to promote the "mob mentality." A case of using a headline to promote the “mob mentality.”

]]> By: Chad http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/comment-page-1/#comment-738 Chad Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:17:44 +0000 http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/#comment-738 This is 4 days after the Times created a stir here in Ohio by sighting, "an unnamed source" in the African Studies Dept. that National Champion Ohio State football players all where receiving special treatment on class work. Now mind you the professor of the dept. went on the record to state that the claims of the unnamed source where false. In fact the entire resources of the Times could only find one person to make this claim and could not provide a single piece of evidence. A classic example of just running with any "deep throat" whistle blower you can find to manufacture a scandal. And now they are making more stuff up about Ohio. I used to not respect the Times. Now I am starting to hate them. This is 4 days after the Times created a stir here in Ohio by sighting, “an unnamed source” in the African Studies Dept. that National Champion Ohio State football players all where receiving special treatment on class work. Now mind you the professor of the dept. went on the record to state that the claims of the unnamed source where false. In fact the entire resources of the Times could only find one person to make this claim and could not provide a single piece of evidence. A classic example of just running with any “deep throat” whistle blower you can find to manufacture a scandal.

And now they are making more stuff up about Ohio. I used to not respect the Times. Now I am starting to hate them.

]]> By: Tombo http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/comment-page-1/#comment-737 Tombo Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:52:16 +0000 http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/#comment-737 This is why I hardly ever read the former paper-of-record anymore. The attempt to spin everything the Bush admin does abroad as doomed to fail is so transparent as to be laughable. Wishing that consummate pro Bill Keller will reverse this situation, but I don't have much hope so long as his idiot trust fund hippie boss, the Sulzberger brat, remains in charge. This is why I hardly ever read the former paper-of-record anymore. The attempt to spin everything the Bush admin does abroad as doomed to fail is so transparent as to be laughable.

Wishing that consummate pro Bill Keller will reverse this situation, but I don’t have much hope so long as his idiot trust fund hippie boss, the Sulzberger brat, remains in charge.

]]> By: Lee Anne Millinger http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/comment-page-1/#comment-736 Lee Anne Millinger Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:29:02 +0000 http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/#comment-736 To me, the excerpts you quote from the article have the condescending tone of the New York elite: "Those poor, benighted Midwesterners out there in the hinterlands who aren't clued in to how deceptive our government really is. How quaint, they really trust and believe the Bush Administration." To me, the excerpts you quote from the article have the condescending tone of the New York elite: “Those poor, benighted Midwesterners out there in the hinterlands who aren’t clued in to how deceptive our government really is. How quaint, they really trust and believe the Bush Administration.”

]]> By: Mike Kennedy http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/comment-page-1/#comment-735 Mike Kennedy Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:25:06 +0000 http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/#comment-735 I looked at the story and, like so many NYT stories these days, stopped reading after the first weak anecdote. They even had another one about the Augusta National golf club the other day. These guys don't give up. I looked at the story and, like so many NYT stories these days, stopped reading after the first weak anecdote. They even had another one about the Augusta National golf club the other day. These guys don’t give up.

]]> By: Mike Kennedy http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/comment-page-1/#comment-734 Mike Kennedy Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:25:03 +0000 http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/#comment-734 I looked at the story and, like so many NYT stories these days, stopped reading after the first weak anecdote. They even had another one about the Augusta National golf club the other day. These guys don't give up. I looked at the story and, like so many NYT stories these days, stopped reading after the first weak anecdote. They even had another one about the Augusta National golf club the other day. These guys don’t give up.

]]> By: Tongue Boy http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/comment-page-1/#comment-733 Tongue Boy Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:32:14 +0000 http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2003/07/17/the-new-york-times-bizzare-world/#comment-733 Has anybody got a trademark on "Bush Lied" yet? I would stake that claim myself but I can't get a trademark symbol out this keyboard. Has anybody got a trademark on “Bush Lied” yet? I would stake that claim myself but I can’t get a trademark symbol out this keyboard.

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