New Year. New Science.

[Penguin]

If the infos are in printed or digital form makes no difference regarding its truth, though I prefer holding a big book in a comfy chair to reading long texts on a monitor.

However the biggest annoyance regarding the web is often the lack of source material. Hell, there are even news sites out there where they don't show a date in the article, unusuable for serious research.
Still too often, (news) sites show a disregard for the hyperlink abilities of the net. When I read something about say a speech, I am one of those guys who want to dig deeper when it interests me. Would it kill the journalists to link to the original speech?
Same goes about articles about scientific papers. Thanks, journalists for editing the infos and explaining discoveries to the public, but put a freaking link at least to the abstract! This way the interested reader can check out how much truth the article contains and how much is just exaggeration to create "news".

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[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Penguin

However the biggest annoyance regarding the web is often the lack of source material. Hell, there are even news sites out there where they don't show a date in the article, unusuable for serious research.

That's what I was saying regarding the books I buy. If I can find the information online, I'll use it. I have found some wonderful sites regarding ships and weapons, including information I couldn't find anywhere else. That said, nobody has the information Burt, Friedman, Roberts, Campbell and their like put into their books. It's just not there.

Still too often, (news) sites show a disregard for the hyperlink abilities of the net. When I read something about say a speech, I am one of those guys who want to dig deeper when it interests me. Would it kill the journalists to link to the original speech?
Same goes about articles about scientific papers. Thanks, journalists for editing the infos and explaining discoveries to the public, but put a freaking link at least to the abstract! This way the interested reader can check out how much truth the article contains and how much is just exaggeration to create "news".

Ah, hyperlinks - the bane of my existence. Not that I don't love them, especially when I'm doing research on a specific composer. The problem is that many of those Wiki articles do put in links, and I end up following them for hours, far beyond what I had planned on.

@Platapus: here are two pages full of porn which you'll certainly appreciate:

Stefan, I really wish you'd stop linking to...

Oh, that kind of porn! Good stuff!