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The organization that brought Syria Deeply, a site with in-depth information and news about current events in Syria, has opened a new site called Ebola Deeply with the goal of creating website with in depth information and news from independent journalists about a the Ebola epidemic. In their own words:
Ebola Deeply is an independent digital media project led by journalists and technologists that explores a new model of storytelling around a global crisis. Our goal is to build a better user experience of the story by adding context to content, using the latest digital tools of the day. Over time the hope is to add greater clarity, deeper understanding and more sustained engagement to the global conversation.
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Not recommended for children.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday October 17 2014, @05:23AM
They need a to code way better html, in essence cut the crap out. And add https.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday October 17 2014, @07:52AM
"I want them to" != "They need to"
Site looks okay to me.
Why does it need https so badly?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday October 17 2014, @11:54PM
Why do I need to tell everybody what subjects I browse on a site?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 17 2014, @05:38PM
Why does it need https? I didn't see anywhere that it was asking for personally identifiable information (PII) or credit card numbers. Were you considering using the site to transmit clandestine messages to your operatives in the hot zone in Liberia? What's up with this?
(Score: 1) by mathinker on Saturday October 18 2014, @06:14PM
He's tired of the CDC calculating how obsessed (or not) he might be about Ebola, publicly based on a parallel construction rather than information which the NSA passes on to them secretly. And simultaneously the UN has figured out that mass surveillance violates human rights [techdirt.com].
(Score: 1) by mathinker on Saturday October 18 2014, @06:23PM
You forgot to mention "Nomad" and "lame"...
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday October 18 2014, @06:31PM
..?
(Score: 1) by ground on Friday October 17 2014, @05:31AM
I'm thinking the same team that designed beta designed this abortion of a web site. I hope the content is great in the future but I personally won't be returning to find out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 17 2014, @06:03AM
Well of course! They only care about biological infections, not cybernetic infections. That someone else's problem.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Friday October 17 2014, @02:14PM
Funny. If you open the page with all scripts and cross-site requests blocked, you see nothing. Just like the content, I suppose.
Do sites really need eye candy? What's wrong with plain black-on-what HTML? Even with the move to ebooks, I don't see authors or publishers seeing a need to add colorful fonts and backgrounds to books, so why websites?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 17 2014, @04:32PM
maybe it was designed by the same folks that did the initial healthcare.gov
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 17 2014, @03:06PM
If only we had some way of getting text---the actual meat of the info---without needing XSS or JS. That way, even low end machines and text browsers could see it too. Alas, only the graphical browsers and mid to high end machines can ever hope to accomplish displaying text and hyperlinks.