When I sit down on Sunday evenings to blog, I shuffle through the memorable events and images of the week. This week’s image first came to my awareness on Wednesday of this week. Our family had closely been following a situation at my son’s elementary school, because the incident occurred at his grade level. When my husband called to tell me the story had appeared on tallahassee.com, I logged on to read it. While the article filled in some questions I had had about the incident (and raised others), what immediately struck me was the “contextual linking provided by Topix.” Here is what the contextual linking led to:
I was still struggling to tie all this together when Tenley came in to ask me to sync something on itunes (which involves the computer I am at to write my blog). After a nasty parenting moment when I grumbled about having to lose focus on my blog to help her, a cool turnaround happened when she asked me what I was blogging about and I discovered through our conversation the gist of why this pairing of “topics” bugged me so much:
Here is how she and I ended the conversation:
Does knowing that a student was expelled at Roberts for bringing a gun to school make you want to go to a festival at Holy Comforter? Will kids who attend the Holy Comforter festival now consider arming themselves?
Have you seen similar pairings of content that could have been saved by scrutiny by someONE? If so, please share them in the comments section!
Wife of one, Mom of two, Friend of many. My pronouns are she/her/hers.
Appears that someone was not paying attention to the detail when the links were created.