I hope this gets incorporated into the existing website. I'm not an active subscriber but I used to be and I always thought there was a very fertile "other articles you might like" grounf that the New Yorker never took advantage of, given it's reputation and legacy.
I’ve long thought about trying to map of how the locations of music and maybe theater events listed in the magazine have changed over time.
There are performances of some kind in pretty much every corner of NYC but it’s interesting to see which neighborhoods have had events deemed relevant to The New Yorker readership in different eras.
Slightly different question, but does anyone have any info about Google’s digitisation of Mainichi Shimbun’s pre-war articles? The work was announced 3 years ago, but it’s been radio silence since: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20221110/p2a/00m/0bu/00...
If I’m reading this correctly, they now have all their historic articles loaded into their CMS. I think they previously just had a system where you could page (and maybe search?) through scans of old issues, which is also cool but not as versatile.
When a lot of content was being put out on CD/DVD, a number of publications did but they are not straightforwardly accessible these days because they're usually on an old version of Windows. (Yes, if you want to make a project of it, you can probably get into them but has never been worth it for me.)
The CDs I have seem to be proprietary for Windows from the late 90s. But I also have PDFs through 2005 on my computer which I must have "acquired" at some point.
I hope this gets incorporated into the existing website. I'm not an active subscriber but I used to be and I always thought there was a very fertile "other articles you might like" grounf that the New Yorker never took advantage of, given it's reputation and legacy.
I’ve long thought about trying to map of how the locations of music and maybe theater events listed in the magazine have changed over time.
There are performances of some kind in pretty much every corner of NYC but it’s interesting to see which neighborhoods have had events deemed relevant to The New Yorker readership in different eras.
Slightly different question, but does anyone have any info about Google’s digitisation of Mainichi Shimbun’s pre-war articles? The work was announced 3 years ago, but it’s been radio silence since: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20221110/p2a/00m/0bu/00...
Here’s a place to start, a list of 250 “best” articles from the New Yorker. I guess this is from previously available articles.
https://www.reddit.com/r/longform/s/zRJgAEdagi
Possibly friendlier link:
https://old.reddit.com/r/longform/comments/1e8m5s1/the_250_b...
(old.reddit.com takes you to the old UI)
How soon can we chat with it via RAG?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327909
I saw no way to pull down a PDF. That's unfortunate as I prefer to browse offline.
I think you can download the entire issue from the archive
Could have sworn they did this years ago. I even have the first 80 years or whatever on DVD in the closet.
If I’m reading this correctly, they now have all their historic articles loaded into their CMS. I think they previously just had a system where you could page (and maybe search?) through scans of old issues, which is also cool but not as versatile.
When a lot of content was being put out on CD/DVD, a number of publications did but they are not straightforwardly accessible these days because they're usually on an old version of Windows. (Yes, if you want to make a project of it, you can probably get into them but has never been worth it for me.)
Usually Windows/Wine is the much better case than the old Mac apps (32bit, PPC etc) in the age of Apple Silcon
https://old.reddit.com/r/thenewyorker/comments/1jlhrve/instr...
Breaking the DJVU DRM would be the perfect solution though
I think the disc release GP is talking about had files in DjVu format.
I have the MAD archives bought in 90s on CDs but can't use..
The issues on the Absolutely MAD DVD (1952-2005) are just plain PDF files, no DRM, they work perfectly
https://files.catbox.moe/x4np6u.png
The CDs I have seem to be proprietary for Windows from the late 90s. But I also have PDFs through 2005 on my computer which I must have "acquired" at some point.
I have MAD archives somewhere. I thought they were in some standard format but maybe not.
A lot of the gen 1 or so CD content isn't easily accessible although a more industrious person could probably get to it in some manner.
doesn't wine have old versions of mswindows pretty much nailed?
Nice! 100 years worth.