Blogger "Infinonymous" kindly gave me Hogwarts points I don't deserve when he or she posted :
Mr. Mayo's powers evidently have grown to the point at which he can create links that tie directly to, and highlight, particular portions of P-G articles.
I can't take credit for that. It's some web voodoo the Post-Gazette's implemented on its own.
Try this: select and copy some text in a PG story, then paste it in another document. The result? When you paste, you get not only the copied text but a customized link to the story it came from --- a trick that's both handy and a little creepy at the same time. The virtual "yellow highlighter" effect it generates when you use the customized link does help to show that copied text in its original context -- but how is the newspaper's website commandeering the tools of my browser or operating system?
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I prefer to believe in your magical powers, Bob.
I also wonder whether you might wander over to the Boulevard of the Allies someday, maybe on your lunch break, and use some of your technomysticality to help the Post-Gazette reporters. Poor things, they don't even have a Google-compatible Intertubes device to play with. Can't you just wave your mouse hand or, double-click twice, or something . . . and deliver a Googletronic 2000 to the P-G newsroom?
Com'on guys...you're killing me..
Posted something about suspended City Workers...wanted to soften up Banner...all I get is red red red.
Magenta...would have been cool...
Mayo gets read read read...
I'm thinking it is some sort of conspiracy...
Is there such a thing as Blogger School?
If I were the Sorting Hat I would think for about 15 seconds and shriek triumphantly, "HUFFLEPUFF!" But if he posts about the protests at the City County building today and adds real value, he's in Griffyndor.
My Dear Bram:
'I would gladly pay you for a hamburger today...'
monk
PS: Make that a "Burgher with Mayo"
Cough up your seat...could use a snooze...
Dug into their code a bit-- they're using the Tynt Tracer javascript service (which incidentally tracks which things users copy)
Interesting, CarolN. I'm sure we've all noticed that the P-G's website is pretty slow compared to a lot of the rest of the Net -- and with all the different website names that fly by under "Transferring data from...", I always assumed a lot of it was tracking software and other tricks.
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