Language on the web is enhanced by emoticons and animated GIFs.

CiteIt could further enhance the written word by creating a richer form of hyperlink.

With CiteIt, writers can evoke the Jack Nicholson line:

You can’t handle the truth! — by pulling in the context from a YouTube video.

This enables the reader to view the context of the quote video and transcript,

without requiring the reader to leave the original article

and without requiring the writer to embed each document

and video, something not workable in an article with multiple quotes.

 

CiteIt Examples:

• Matt Taibbi: Nordstream article
• Ken Klippenstein: College Protests
• CiteIt homepage

One point Gladwell made was that there are no bad neighborhoods there only bad blocks. By this Gladwell meant that crime is concentrated in small areas (blocks), which require a concentrated response, rather than a blanket “stop and frisk” policy that affects whole neighborhoods.

Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” draws its title, in part from a line where the books’s main character, Elizabeth says: I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

In an interview he did with Michael Brooks, Ken Klippenstein said:

Hamish’s Note: 

Substack is a new type of network. We have been called a media company, a newsletter platform, and a social network, but none of those really fit.

Substack is a subscription network. We think subscription networks will play a major role in the internet’s next chapter. They represent a step forward from social networks.

Today, a lot of the media carried a quote in which Donald Trump says: if I don’t get elected it’s going to be a blood bath.  Television is seldom able to present the whole context of a quote, given space limitations. This could be an advantage for Substack writers because CiteIt enables interested readers to have the option of pursuing a quote’s context without commandeering the attention of all viewers.

CiteIt becomes like an advanced form of footnotes that works across:

1. text,
2. audio, and
3. video.

 

Isn’t it outrageous that this year at the 2024 Oscars, an Oscar winner Jonathan Glazer went on stage and said: Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness .  What a disgraceful thing to say!

No, the director of Zone of Interest did not disavow his Jewish identity at the Oscars (Vox)

 

Judith Miller says the New York Times found that the paper had lacked skepticism, but they did not interview any of the editors or name specific reporters as responsible.

Miller disagrees that there was insufficient skepticism, but that we were accurately conveying wrong information.

Wesley tells Inigo: Get used to disappointment