Comments on: Browsers’ teenage years http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/08/15/browsers-teenage-years/ by Jeff Jarvis Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:55:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: rick http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/08/15/browsers-teenage-years/#comment-357507 rick Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:00:48 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/08/15/browsers-teenage-years/#comment-357507 i would love to imagine the papers returning to the turn of the century when the carried impossibly local and amazingly succinct detail about things like, "Mrs. Smith of Danbury Street called on Mrs. Shay for lunch..." people read that. it's not about gossip of socializing, but about "regular" life. old-world twitter. i would love to imagine the papers returning to the turn of the century when the carried impossibly local and amazingly succinct detail about things like, “Mrs. Smith of Danbury Street called on Mrs. Shay for lunch…”

people read that. it’s not about gossip of socializing, but about “regular” life. old-world twitter.

]]> By: Bertil http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/08/15/browsers-teenage-years/#comment-357191 Bertil Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:14:12 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/08/15/browsers-teenage-years/#comment-357191 A journalist would most likely be one of two kind of algorythm expert: relevance & format specialist, and objectivity & newsworthiness specialist. People will be happy to have news that is tailored to their availability: can they read, listen to it? how long until their attention might be grabed by something else? Headline and soundbites could be advantageously (and automatically) be replaced by in-depth analysis when a traffic congestion is ahead. Some people can decide whether such news element is relevant, objective, but their opinion will have to be agregated with text analysis, to check if a story is missing important aspects. Who will write the story? The players themselves, I assume -- hopefully through more automated means. A journalist would most likely be one of two kind of algorythm expert: relevance & format specialist, and objectivity & newsworthiness specialist.

People will be happy to have news that is tailored to their availability: can they read, listen to it? how long until their attention might be grabed by something else? Headline and soundbites could be advantageously (and automatically) be replaced by in-depth analysis when a traffic congestion is ahead.

Some people can decide whether such news element is relevant, objective, but their opinion will have to be agregated with text analysis, to check if a story is missing important aspects.

Who will write the story? The players themselves, I assume — hopefully through more automated means.

]]> By: Will Pollard http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/08/15/browsers-teenage-years/#comment-357178 Will Pollard Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:47:16 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/08/15/browsers-teenage-years/#comment-357178 If you could look ahead six months you would know what Adobe was up to. So far the browser has taken over most functions of 'office' software, notably word processing so it is 'read-write'. Flash seems to me to be another thing entirely, not text based. I am one of the Postscript fans who continue to be puzzled. There has been something on offer to developers and I guess soon the rest of us will notice some effect. So, much more video and animation if that is still a newspaper. If you could look ahead six months you would know what Adobe was up to.

So far the browser has taken over most functions of ‘office’ software, notably word processing so it is ‘read-write’.

Flash seems to me to be another thing entirely, not text based. I am one of the Postscript fans who continue to be puzzled. There has been something on offer to developers and I guess soon the rest of us will notice some effect.

So, much more video and animation if that is still a newspaper.

]]> By: TLB http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/08/15/browsers-teenage-years/#comment-357163 TLB Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:38:10 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/08/15/browsers-teenage-years/#comment-357163 I predict it will be another twenty years before browsers are what they should have been back then: similar to OpenDoc and other object-oriented systems. All this crap about using CSS tricks would have never happened and instead writing web pages would be like writing a Java app, with layout managers, absolute positioning if you need it, automatic fallback to even lynx-type levels if necessary, and so on. In that case, websites would be objects and would have meta data, their complete contents (or as much as the owners want to reveal) could be available through an API, and so on. It's too bad that Tim Berners-Lee and Marc Andreesen weren't given a sinecure somewhere so someone more capable could have designed the web. I predict it will be another twenty years before browsers are what they should have been back then: similar to OpenDoc and other object-oriented systems. All this crap about using CSS tricks would have never happened and instead writing web pages would be like writing a Java app, with layout managers, absolute positioning if you need it, automatic fallback to even lynx-type levels if necessary, and so on. In that case, websites would be objects and would have meta data, their complete contents (or as much as the owners want to reveal) could be available through an API, and so on. It’s too bad that Tim Berners-Lee and Marc Andreesen weren’t given a sinecure somewhere so someone more capable could have designed the web.

]]> By: Adryan http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/08/15/browsers-teenage-years/#comment-357157 Adryan Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:24:38 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/08/15/browsers-teenage-years/#comment-357157 Oh come now, it could be quite fun if you do it playfully. Look at what these guys came-up with for 2015: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epic Oh come now, it could be quite fun if you do it playfully. Look at what these guys came-up with for 2015:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epic

]]> By: Steve Boriss http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/08/15/browsers-teenage-years/#comment-357147 Steve Boriss Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:49:45 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/08/15/browsers-teenage-years/#comment-357147 Other questions for Daddy: What's a journalist? Objectivity? Broadcast? Local TV affiliate? The New York Times? (Steve Boriss, <a href="http://www.thefutureofnews.com" rel="nofollow">The Future of News</a>) Other questions for Daddy: What’s a journalist? Objectivity? Broadcast? Local TV affiliate? The New York Times? (Steve Boriss, The Future of News)

]]> By: Kevin http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/08/15/browsers-teenage-years/#comment-357135 Kevin Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:20:25 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/08/15/browsers-teenage-years/#comment-357135 I'd cancel the assignment. Do you really want to be ridiculed in 13 yrs? Seriously, it is foolish to predict more than the general trends a couple years from now. I’d cancel the assignment. Do you really want to be ridiculed in 13 yrs?

Seriously, it is foolish to predict more than the general trends a couple years from now.

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