A few weeks ago, Ars published part one in a series called "From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X". In this series, Peter Bright details why he believes "Windows is dying, Windows applications suck, and Microsoft is too blinkered to fix any of it". Part one dealt with the history of both Windows and the Mac OS, and part two deals with .Net, the different types of programmers, and Windows Vista.
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Member since:2005-07-08
The link in the first paragraph is to part 1, which is only mentioned as a leader. Part 2 is the main focus of the article here and is inexplicably linked in paragraph two even though there was every opportunity to link in paragraph one ("part two").
The exact same thing was done in:
http://osnews.com/story/19712/Microsoft_Withdraws_Proposal_to_Acqui...
http://osnews.com/story/19710/Interview:_Jonathan_Schwartz_CEO_of_S...
http://osnews.com/story/19708/Slackware_12.1_Released
http://osnews.com/story/19706/Planet_GNOMEs_Lack_of_Love
http://osnews.com/story/19707/Bringing_Down_the_Language_Barrier_-_...
http://osnews.com/story/19705/McBride:_Linux_Is_a_Copy_of_UNIX
...
Some of these do not even feature any links on the main page. It certainly seems systematic; link past coverage or past events to give context to the actual news item, but bury the link to the news item and any blurbs about that in the following paragraphs so users have to 'read more' to see what's being commented on.
Member since:2005-06-29
Yup. I do this to prevent people from not reading the "read more". The "read more" on articles that we have been doing the past few weeks is a new element on OSNews, and I need to coerce people into seeing them, so they know it's there. It also prevent people from not seeing the whole picture; the new frontpage items on OSNews are far more general and less information-dense than they used to be - with information meaning information from the actual news article at hand. In other words, they are less meaningful, so you actually NEED the read more to gain a better understanding. The new style teasers generally contain nothing but a little history or background information on the topic at hand, but relatively little from the actual newsworthy article.
OSNews had turned into a glorified RSS feed with three lines teasers all over the place, no background information, no nothing, and an endless list of pointless test releases of Linux distributions, and meaningless items like "here's a review of GreatBSD 2.3.6.1.1.1a. Go read it." I've changed that. It's certainly not perfect yet, but give us time.
This is the new style for OSNews, which allows us to do more thorough items, with more information, and maybe an opinion or two. We've heard nothing but good responses, so everyone better get used to it
. Edited 2008-05-05 15:36 UTC
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2005-06-29
The link is right there in the item. First paragraph, even.