The Guardian Shifts To Twitter After 188 Years of Ink 211
teflon_king writes with news that renowned British newspaper The Guardian will be abandoning its paper-and-ink distribution scheme and publishing all articles and news as Tweets. Quoting:
"A mammoth project is also under way to rewrite the whole of the newspaper's archive, stretching back to 1821, in the form of tweets. Major stories already completed include '1832 Reform Act gives voting rights to one in five adult males yay!!!;' 'OMG Hitler invades Poland, allies declare war see tinyurl.com/b5x6e for more;' and 'JFK assassin8d @ Dallas, def. heard second gunshot from grassy knoll WTF?' Sceptics have expressed concerns that 140 characters may be insufficient to capture the full breadth of meaningful human activity, but social media experts say the spread of Twitter encourages brevity, and that it ought to be possible to convey the gist of any message in a tweet. For example, Martin Luther King's legendary 1963 speech on the steps of the Lincoln memorial appears in the Guardian's Twitterised archive as 'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by,' eliminating the waffle and bluster of the original."
Interesting... (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder if this will make the guardian more interesting to read..
Sweet (Score:5, Funny)
Since I have the attention span of woah, Britney Spears just ate an entire bowl of rusty nails on live TV.
What was I saying? Oh, right. As I was saying, if cars continue to run on haha, nice bewbs! then we'll definitely need to see improvement in the White House.
Arrg twitter this twitter that. (Score:5, Funny)
Tweet: To send a message on twitter.
Twat: Any journalist that reports on/about twitter.
R U Sure ? (Score:5, Funny)
google news (Score:2, Funny)
tinyurl link works, is serious :( (Score:2, Funny)
Re:R U Sure ? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Pandora's blog has been opened (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Interesting... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pandora's blog has been opened (Score:5, Funny)
Your post advocates a
(X) moronic ( ) Totalitarian (X) consumer-driven (X) Charles Brosonish ( ) Governmental
approach to humor. Your "OMGPonies!" will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular post, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(X) Your post was simply unfunny.
(X) Mailing lists and other legitimate websites would not bother stealing it from you
(X) Monkeys simply can't aim that well.
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(X) Slashdot will attempt to use this as an unfunny meme
(X) Users of email will not put up with it
(X) Linus Torvalds did not even chuckle
(X) The police will tour again
(X) Requires the attention span of a gnat
(X) Requires immediate total cooperation of God in Heaven
(X) The meme is tired and worn out and I'm just as likely to get a -1 troll as a +5 funny.
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(X) Asshats
(X) Asshats
(X) Asshats
(X) Asshats
(X) Asshats
(X) Technically illiterate politicians
(X) Extreme stupidity on the part of people in general
(X) Outlook
(X) Asshats
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown funny
(X) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Incompatibility with open source or open source licenses
(X) unfunny jokes do nothing to solve the problem
(X) Temporary/one-line jokes are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government thinking your lame
(X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but that is simply unfunny.
(X) Once you go OMGPonies! you can never go back.
(X) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
(X) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
(X) What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this site is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Re:Pandora's blog has been opened (Score:3, Funny)
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe, and from this side only! The flight of a half-man, half-bird. Dinosaurs nuzzling their young in pastures where strip-malls should be. Cookies on dowels. All those moments lost in time; gone like eggs off a hooker's stomach. Time to die.
Re:Pandora's blog has been opened (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Pandora's blog has been opened (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not April Fools. The End of the World. (Score:5, Funny)
You know, I remember when April Fools jokes about DNF's release date were fresh and new.
When even april fools day jokes about your release date become stale, that might be a hint you've waited just a tad too long to release your product.
Re:Nice try... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Interesting... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Interesting... (Score:5, Funny)
Rio Palof - an anagram of "April Fool
Not quite, you need another "l". As it is, it is only an anagram of "April Foo".
I pity the April Foo
Re:Interesting... (Score:2, Funny)
APRIL FOO, FOO!