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Time was “tl;dr” was the battle cry of lazy internet jackasses, people with no attention span who nevertheless found the energy and wherewithal to complain about the length of any digital piece of writing that dared to be longer than a few sentences. This week, at CES, tl;dr is an irritating new “innovation.”
Meet TLDR, a new product from Stremor whose sole complaint is that reading long stuff takes too much time. “We’re putting an end to this time-sucking injustice with our collection of TLDR stuff,” reads the TLDR website. “Our magic technology evaluates written material and reduces those tediously long web pages down to concise summaries.” In other words: “Waaaaaaaaaah! Reading is boring.”
TLDR, which currently comes as a browser plugin to be followed by a mobile app, does exactly what it says it does: compresses longform pieces of writing, be they emails or a New York Times articles, into bite-sized chunks totally devoid of the elegance and care that make a lot of lengthier works beautiful. To illustrate TLDR’s potential, its creators are handing out to CES attendees a 32-page abridged version of Mary Shelley’s classic tome, Frankenstein. “Abridging fiction is much more challenging than working with non-fiction,” boasts the abridged work’s introduction, adding that TLDR is “very proud of the result.”
You know who was probably also proud of her version of Frankenstein? Mary Shelley. And now TLDR can’t even give her enough respect to spell her name right on the cover when they mutilate her book.
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tl;dr:
Meet TLDR, a new product from Stremor whose sole complaint is that reading long stuff takes too much time. To illustrate TLDR’s potential, its creators are handing out to CES attendees a 32-page abridged version of Mary Shelley’s classic tome, Frankenstein. Now TLDR can’t give her enough respect to spell her name right on the cover when they mutilate her book.
Haha! Good spot.
Oh wait, I thought you noticed the typo. I tl;dr’d the original article and didn’t see that part of it at the end
Every word counts!
TL;DR:
Company TLDRs stuff, mispells authors name
TL;DR:
Company misspell something.
So it’s an app that does the same job as a Gawker employee? No wonder you don’t like it.
Did someone get up on the wrong side of bed this morning?
Note he said Gawker, not Future Publishing
Future is worse.
Bit harsh, old bean
clearly there is a use for this kind of technology if it is executed well. the writers stance is a little OTT for my liking and lacks any imagination as to why such a tool might be useful.
surely the whole ‘inverted triangle’ approach to news articles totally prescribes to the tl;dr mentality? it acknowledges the fact that readers may stop reading at any point, and if they do they will come away with all the salient facts.
Anyway Giz can implement this? I’ve come to many an article where I’ve opened and thought “I cannot be bothered to read this”
A nice TL:DR at the bottom would be amazing, set yourself a limit of say, 10 to 20 words?
I set myself forward as Giz UK’s first TL:DR’ER
With 76 tabs open, I second this