Readit Newsjeffpersonified commented on A dose of perspective exposure.watsi.org/a-dose... · Posted by u/gracegarey
I'm not entirely sure that as a patient in one of these hospitals, I'd appreciate the (white) girl with a camera strapped to her forehead walking through the place.
Trading patient privacy for donations seems like a worse deal than needs to be made here.
Probably a lot of room for discussion here, but I think it's problematic to conflate this documentary trip with Watsi's general practices for dealing with patient information – doesn't appear that they gave out any of their patients' personal information in this piece, and they generally do a great job limiting the amount of information listed on any given patient's page.
Of course, there are a lot of health care needs that are by nature private or could endanger the patient well-being if it became public that some procedures were done. I believe they have an anonymous fund that receives a percentage of all donations to attend to just those types of issues.
If any information on any patient should be given out is a bit of a different question.
jeffpersonified commented on We Built a Hacker News for Biotech news.harlembiospace.com... · Posted by u/owensmp
We see 1 or 2 of these "Hacker News for X" sites a month. Have any of you succeeded and developed a community beyond the spike of interest you received making the HN frontpage?
Designer News (news.layervault.com) has been doing quite well. It's been my go-to for design info for a while now.
jeffpersonified commented on Zurb Foundation 5 Released foundation.zurb.com/learn... · Posted by u/mos2
How is their inclusion of a medium break point not at the top of this thread? This is the most significant and noticeable addition to the Framework IMO.
Meta:
I love this style of presenting journalism content and hope to see more of it. Finally seeing the web being used to do things that print cannot.
Great job to the NY Times team.
How long as the NYT been in beta anyway? It seems like quite a while now, and really look forward to the official release.
How much time does it take for NYT to make these interactive stories? (pure technology not data collection or field journalism)
If it's not significant then this is certainly future of journalism.
[EDIT]: Looking at couple of interactive stories in recent past (Snow Fall and New Silk Road) looks like this is something they want to repeat again and again. Do you think they've developed some sort of framework (like Django/Rails) ?
I'm particularly curious what they're using these interactive stories for. Refining design or technique? Gauging user interest? Putting processes into place to speed up their development?
Really impressed either way.
If you've changed the background from white to light-grey, that's enough. Stop changing text from black to dark-grey (especially the non-bold text)!