Remixing Out Annoying Style

Every find a style of writing really annoying, although you like the content itself? Well apparently, Eric Richardson has built a way to remix a site to be less annoying.

The Gothamist local blogs are written by individuals, but in a pretentious plural tone. Here's part of an entry on Gothamist, by mattymatt:

...The only way that night could possibly be any better is if someone said the words "and a very special surprise appearance by Olivia Newton John." We know it's not likely. But the way things are going here, we wouldn't rule anything out.

And the same, on Singularist:

...The only way that night could possibly be any better is if someone said the words "and a very special surprise appearance by Olivia Newton John." I know it's not likely. But the way things are going here, I wouldn't rule anything out.

Ah, that's better, individual voice. Of course, this hack wouldn't be possible without Creative Commons licensing. I wonder how large media organizations would react to such remix, or the Gothamist for that matter.

Comments

[Bydan Hemmy]

Has anyone told you, you look like Seth Myers on SNL?

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/bios/Seth_Meyers.html

[Jackson West]

Glad Eric modded the site to your liking, but MattyMatt writes for SFist...

[MattyMatt]

hello,
we're so glad you liked our content, i mean i'm glad you liked my content. interviewing charo has definitely been the high point of my sfistian career so far. but like a lot of sfist articles, it was really a collaborative effort -- even though i did the writeup, it took 4 or 5 people to coordinate the interview. so i don't know if i'd be comfortable being all "me me me" ... since without the us, it would never have happened. thanks for reading!
:) matt.