N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section

Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by jmduke on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:07PM (#6328895)

Given how horizontally expansive RapGenius is trying to be (this is the first time I've seen NewsGenius, but I'm familiar with PoetryGenius et al -- there's an annotated Iliad that's pretty cool), I'm wondering if they'd be better off as a layer or a plugin as opposed to a stand-alone site. I'm much less tempted to visit the site for each individual story that pops up than I would be to peruse the annotations as I browse normally.

Either way -- stuff like this is a delight to read.

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Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by steveklabnik on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:13PM (#6328932)

My understanding was that RapGenius was always a text annotation platform, with the hip-hop stuff serving as an exemplar, rather than being the actual product.

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Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by jere on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:35PM (#6329083)

Always a text annotation platform? That's a bit revisionist from what I've read.

Fred Wilson initially told them "I think lyrics is a very crowded space and almost entirely reliant on Google for traffic" and they admitted "our pitch back then was a bit too lyrics-focused.."

http://news.rapgenius.com/Lemon-how-rap-genius-raised-s18m-i...

You can find those quotes in an annotation in the above link (which makes me realize the problem with annotations is you can't ctrl-f them).

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Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by wwarnerandrew on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:42PM (#6329114)

Here is a permalink for that annotation: http://news.rapgenius.com/1900809

You can get that by clicking "share" in the annotation footer

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Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by steveklabnik on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @02:45PM (#6329564)

Fair enough! I don't have a citation for my understanding, I just read waaaaay too much HN, and that's what was stuck in my brain. Thanks for clarifying.

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Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by why-el on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:15PM (#6328952)

A layer is not a good idea from a business point of view in my opinion, given how most websites (Facebook, Twitter with their API changes, Spotify with their new messaging system and so on) are trying to lock you in. Maybe simply build a way to take you back directly to RapGenius, like a annotate-this-on-rg button.

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Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by tlrobinson on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @02:03PM (#6329245)

Most users have no idea what a plugin is or how to use it.

That said, it might be nice to have an optional plugin to easily discover annotations and add your own to pages as you browse.

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Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by qwerty_asdf on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @02:29PM (#6329436)

Funny you should mention that.

Given that that's the defense people seem to proclaim every time someone mentions that disabling JavaScript is now buried as an arcane config flag in Firefox.

They say: "just use a plug-in", "just use an add-on"...

What they mean to say is: "just don't disable javascript at all... ever."

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Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by untog on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @05:08PM (#6330503)

There is a direct connection between people who want to disable JavaScript (and even know what it is) and people who know what plugins are.

They are the same people.

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Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by nightpool on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @03:30PM (#6329854)

Most people, especially those who don't know what a plugin is, should emphatically NOT be disabling javascript wholesale and without exceptions in Firefox. And I disagree that its incredibly hard to google, find NoScript, and follow the directions to install it.

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