Tag Archives: Web

You aren’t as unique as you think you are

By Michael Becker | Published: March 8, 2009
Steve Yelvington, whose bril­liance and com­mon sense I am only just begin­ning to com­pre­hend, pro­vides us with yet another excel­lent post on some of the real­i­ties fac­ing news­pa­pers on the Web. You might remem­ber the last post I book­marked, in which Yelvington pro­vides some insight on the three pri­mary roles a local news Web site [...]
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A “hypertext”

By Michael Becker | Published: November 5, 2008
In the midst of col­lect­ing Web links to accom­pany one of my upcom­ing arti­cles, I came across this page, still hosted some­where in the depths of MSU’s old­est servers. This “hyper­text” in glacial geol­ogy dates back to 1999, when stu­dents in Geology 445 — Glacial Geology cre­ated the site. The date at the top of [...]
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Crying over spilled ink

By Michael Becker | Published: September 4, 2008
A quick note today while things are fresh in my mind. We used to say that when a story was cov­ered exten­sively by the media that a lot of ink was spilled on its account. Of course, this refers to the decid­edly old timey process of actu­ally writ­ing some­thing in ink... you know, with a [...]
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