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.
That's a very neat idea! If you ever have the time to do it you should try it out, in fact you've gave me an idea of trying to do the same for my city, Bucharest, just need to find some relevant data-sources.
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...
Honestly this got me to subscribe. The back catalog is pretty stellar with pretty much every major writer of the twentieth century making a contribution. Zooming in on PDFs just wasn't how you wanted to read them.
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.
The browser app might be some outdated Windows application, that's the case with the MAD DVD too, but you can find the actual issue files in some folders
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.
https://www.reddit.com/r/longform/s/zRJgAEdagi
https://old.reddit.com/r/longform/comments/1e8m5s1/the_250_b...
(old.reddit.com takes you to the old UI)
https://old.reddit.com/r/thenewyorker/comments/1jlhrve/instr...
Breaking the DJVU DRM would be the perfect solution though
https://files.catbox.moe/x4np6u.png
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.