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Ebola Deeply

posted by azrael on Friday October 17 2014, @04:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the truly-madly dept.

buswolley writes:

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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  • (Score: 1) by ground on Friday October 17 2014, @05:31AM

    by ground (120) on Friday October 17 2014, @05:31AM (#106898)
    The website in TFA is a great example of how to do terrible web design. If you load the page with noscript enabled it appears to be a template with no content. If you allow scripts to run you can see the articles but you can feel the lag in the browser.

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 17 2014, @06:03AM (#106900)

    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

    by darkfeline (1030) on Friday October 17 2014, @02:14PM (#107011) Homepage

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 17 2014, @04:32PM (#107072)

    maybe it was designed by the same folks that did the initial healthcare.gov