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The nytimes they are a-changin' – Phill MV
<!doctype html> <html lang="auto"> <head> <base href="http://okayfail.com/2011/nytimes-timelapse.html"> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge;chrome=1"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <link href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=http://okayfail.com/stylesheets/application.css" rel="stylesheet"> <title>The nytimes they are a-changin' – Phill MV</title> <meta property="og:title" content="The nytimes they are a-changin'"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="ATOM" href="https://okayfail-com.translate.goog/atom.xml?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto&_x_tr_sch=http"> <meta http-equiv="X-Translated-By" content="Google"> <meta http-equiv="X-Translated-To" content="en"> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.gstatic.com/_/translate_http/_/js/k=translate_http.tr.en_GB.omlEigW4xY8.O/am=DgY/d=1/rs=AN8SPfpjsL9kUWY0h-sp7Ilu7hZWGwEmeg/m=corsproxy" data-sourceurl="http://okayfail.com/2011/nytimes-timelapse.html"></script> <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Material+Symbols+Outlined:opsz,wght,FILL,GRAD@20..48,100..700,0..1,-50..200" rel="stylesheet"> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.gstatic.com/_/translate_http/_/js/k=translate_http.tr.en_GB.omlEigW4xY8.O/am=DgY/d=1/exm=corsproxy/ed=1/rs=AN8SPfpjsL9kUWY0h-sp7Ilu7hZWGwEmeg/m=phishing_protection" data-phishing-protection-enabled="false" data-forms-warning-enabled="true" data-source-url="http://okayfail.com/2011/nytimes-timelapse.html"></script> <meta name="robots" content="none"> </head> <body> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.gstatic.com/_/translate_http/_/js/k=translate_http.tr.en_GB.omlEigW4xY8.O/am=DgY/d=1/exm=corsproxy,phishing_protection/ed=1/rs=AN8SPfpjsL9kUWY0h-sp7Ilu7hZWGwEmeg/m=navigationui" data-environment="prod" data-proxy-url="https://okayfail-com.translate.goog" data-proxy-full-url="https://okayfail-com.translate.goog/2011/nytimes-timelapse.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto&_x_tr_sch=http" data-source-url="http://okayfail.com/2011/nytimes-timelapse.html" data-source-language="auto" data-target-language="en" data-display-language="auto" data-detected-source-language="en" data-is-source-untranslated="false" data-source-untranslated-url="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=http://okayfail.com/2011/nytimes-timelapse.html&anno=2" data-client="tr"></script> <header> <div class="shortbio"> <h1><a href="https://okayfail-com.translate.goog/index.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto&_x_tr_sch=http">Phillip Mendonça-Vieira</a></h1> <h3>See <a href="https://okayfail-com.translate.goog/archive.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto&_x_tr_sch=http">more of my writing</a> or <a href="https://okayfail-com.translate.goog/atom.xml?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto&_x_tr_sch=http">subscribe via rss</a>.</h3> <hr> </div> </header> <section> <div class="post-wrapper"> <div class="post"> <h1 class="title"><a href="https://okayfail-com.translate.goog/2011/nytimes-timelapse.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto&_x_tr_sch=http">The nytimes they are a-changin'</a></h1> <h5 class="date"><a href="https://okayfail-com.translate.goog/2011/nytimes-timelapse.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto&_x_tr_sch=http">July 18, 2011</a></h5> <p data-sourcepos="1:1-1:270">Due to an errant cron task that ran twice an hour from September 2010 to July 2011, I accidentally collected about 12,000 screenshots of the front page of the <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=http://nytimes.com">nytimes.com</a> (unfortunately, you can only watch the whole 7 minutes if you stick to 480p).</p><iframe width="640" height="510" src="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=http://www.youtube.com/embed/sCKGOiauJCE?rel%3D0%26hd%3D1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <br> <p data-sourcepos="7:1-7:632">Working on this video was fascinating because the past year was filled with dramatic events (from the <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Copiap%25C3%25B3_mining_accident">Chilean miners</a> [<a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=http://youtu.be/sCKGOiauJCE?hd%3D1%26t%3D39s">0:39</a>] to the <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring">Arab Spring</a> [<a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=http://youtu.be/sCKGOiauJCE?hd%3D1%26t%3D3m38s">3:38</a>] and the <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%25C5%258Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami">Japanse Tsunami</a> [<a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=http://youtu.be/sCKGOiauJCE?hd%3D1%26t%3D4m54s">4:54</a>]) that I got to watch unfold time and time again. Watch out for them in the video; I took special care to slow down certain time periods.</p> <h2><a id="conveniently-this-might-be-important-because" class="anchor" href="https://okayfail-com.translate.goog/2011/nytimes-timelapse.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto&_x_tr_sch=http#conveniently-this-might-be-important-because" aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Conveniently, this might be important because:</h2> <p data-sourcepos="11:1-11:248">Traditionally, the purpose of a newspaper’s front page was to entice the reader into delving further into the publication. As a consequence, they are roughly equivalent with whatever the editors thought were the most relevant news items of the day.</p> <p data-sourcepos="13:1-13:56">That said, moments like this one are no longer possible:</p> <p data-sourcepos="15:1-15:82"><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman"><img src="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=http://okayfail.com/img/truman.jpg" style="max-width:100%;"></a></p> <p data-sourcepos="18:1-18:513">Having worked with and developed on a number of content management systems I can tell you that as a rule of thumb no one is storing their frontpage layout data. It’s all gone, and once newspapers shutter their physical distribution operations I get this feeling that we’re no longer going to have a comprehensive archive of how our news-sources of note looked on a daily basis. <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=http://wayback.archive.org/web/20110815000000*/http://nytimes.com">Archive.org</a> comes close, but there are too many gaps to my liking.</p> <p data-sourcepos="20:1-20:303">This, in my humble opinion, is a tragedy because in many ways our frontpages are summaries of our perspectives and our preconceptions. They store what we thought was <em>important</em>, in a way that is easy and quick to parse and extremely valuable for any future generations wishing to study our time period.</p> <p data-sourcepos="22:1-22:120">Thanks for reading! If you have an idea of something fun to do with the data, <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=http://twitter.com/phillmv">holla at me</a>.</p> <p data-sourcepos="24:1-24:114">Interested in how this was put together? I wrote a <a href="https://okayfail-com.translate.goog/2011/howto-timelapse-nytimes.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto&_x_tr_sch=http">howto</a>.</p> <p data-sourcepos="26:1-26:139">Thought this video was cool? <a href="https://okayfail-com.translate.goog/2011/bbc-timelapse.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto&_x_tr_sch=http">I made another one</a> using the <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/">BBC</a>.</p> <p class="date"><a href="https://okayfail-com.translate.goog/2011/nytimes-timelapse.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto&_x_tr_sch=http"># 2011-07-18</a></p> </div> </div> </section> <script>function gtElInit() {var lib = new google.translate.TranslateService();lib.translatePage('en', 'en', function () {});}</script> <script src="https://translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=gtElInit&hl=auto&client=wt" type="text/javascript"></script> </body> </html>