Comments on: Fact Checking a Technique https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/03/14/fact-checking-a-technique/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:19:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 By: Ethan Zuckerman https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/03/14/fact-checking-a-technique/#comment-312 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:44:03 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=438#comment-312 Eugene, I love the idea of annotating rap lyrics – Immortal Technique is offering a sufficiently dense set of references that turning those lyrics into some sort of hypertext seems like a worthwhile exercise. It’s interesting to think about how this could best be incorporated – I could imagine something very worthwhile being done using pop-up video – see http://www.rebelliouspixels.com/2012/buffy-vs-edward-html5-pop-up-video-powered-by-popcornjs for an example of one fascinating way to do this.

I think it’s worth considering carrying this out for a full set of lyrics, but I also feel like at a certain point, it’s worth asking how much we’re willing to give IT poetic license for… and at what point assertions like the ones he’s making in these verses are a claim to authenticity that he can’t personally claim.

Also, wassup with that early 80s backing track? I thought we were done with Journey? Have we run out of 60s and 70s soul samples and moved on to mining the early 80s?

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