Thanks! The secret is an image map. For this entry, the map is:
[map name=”Map012109-1″]
[area shape=”rect” coords=”480,247,546,266″ href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-10146741-60.html?tag=mncol;title” alt=”CNET: ‘The New York Times’ Facebook Problem'” target=”_blank”]
[area shape=”rect” coords=”20,263,246,277″ href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-10146741-60.html?tag=mncol;title” alt=”CNET: ‘The New York Times’ Facebook Problem'” target=”_blank”]
[/map]
(…with html carets instead of brackets, of course, but otherwise the code would be invisible here)
There are two areas defined in this map because the link text breaks on the line return on the typed page. Usually I manage to get the link text on one line.
It’s a retro solution to the problem, so it’s right at home in a typecast!
More and more papers are seeing the need to do this sort of thing for Facebook and, especially, Twitter: see here. The guidelines seem to follow roughly the same advice: exercise common sense because, rightly or wrongly, someone will associate your comments with your employer.
Then there’s the doofus at the Post who started a rumor about the New Yorker going monthly, just to see how people would react. That’s like starting a raging wildfire in Yosemite just ’cause you wanted to see how much damage a match could do.
Moron.
All these good reporters getting laid off, and this guy gets to keep his job?
In response, The New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones nails it in fewer than 140 characters.
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I enjoy your blog, thanks for the recent posts.
I was interested in knowing how you embed HTML tags in your image file of the typewritten page. That’s cool.
~Joe
Hi, JoeV —
Thanks! The secret is an image map. For this entry, the map is:
[map name=”Map012109-1″]
[area shape=”rect” coords=”480,247,546,266″ href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-10146741-60.html?tag=mncol;title” alt=”CNET: ‘The New York Times’ Facebook Problem'” target=”_blank”]
[area shape=”rect” coords=”20,263,246,277″ href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-10146741-60.html?tag=mncol;title” alt=”CNET: ‘The New York Times’ Facebook Problem'” target=”_blank”]
[/map]
(…with html carets instead of brackets, of course, but otherwise the code would be invisible here)
There are two areas defined in this map because the link text breaks on the line return on the typed page. Usually I manage to get the link text on one line.
It’s a retro solution to the problem, so it’s right at home in a typecast!
Cheers,
SV
More and more papers are seeing the need to do this sort of thing for Facebook and, especially, Twitter: see here. The guidelines seem to follow roughly the same advice: exercise common sense because, rightly or wrongly, someone will associate your comments with your employer.
Then there’s the doofus at the Post who started a rumor about the New Yorker going monthly, just to see how people would react. That’s like starting a raging wildfire in Yosemite just ’cause you wanted to see how much damage a match could do.
Moron.
All these good reporters getting laid off, and this guy gets to keep his job?
In response, The New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones nails it in fewer than 140 characters.