Remixed BBC

[andrewducker]

This site takes the BBC News website and automatically adds links to Wikipedia and Technorati into the articles.

Hideously illegal from a copyright point of view, but a fascinating example of what can be done quite simply to make web pages altogether more useful.

Comments

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

How would this be different if I was remixing the BBC page in my browser using JavaScript and asynch requests?

[odheirre.livejournal.com]

I think this page hits the differences (with the exception that Smart Tags were added automatically, which navigating to whitelabel.org at least implies the reader knows text is being altered).

The big issue in my mind is you can't tell what is "BBC quoted" text and what is text inserted by Whitelabel (and everything, including links, is really just text). If the tags could be easily turned on or off (which would be very doable with JavaScript), I think it would negate a lot of the issues.

[andrewducker]

I have no idea how you'd do that...