How'd SI do it?

[Rhody31]

The hole-in-one thread inspired me to read Jack McCallum's story in SI's vault, then it got me thinking ...
How'd SI get all their stories on the internet.
There has to be thousands of stories and photos that weren't saved on a computer or disk; did they pay people to re-type stories? Did they re-develop negatives for photos?

 

[DanOregon]

I don't know - hell of a project. I also appreciate the mag's frequent dollops from the past that they incorporate weekly. Loved the snippet on Steve Smith that accompanied the Carolina Panthers scouting report in the NFL preview:
"(Steve Smith) plays with a chip on his shoulder, which helps him. He probably has the biggest heart in the game. He goes across the middle. He doesn't care who's (covering him). He's going to go up and get that ball." said Ken Lucas."

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

i've read some older stories that had numerous typos, the kind made by quick typing, so i'd imagine some of them were typed and re-entered.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

"Hello, and welcome to your summer internship with Time-Life...."

 

[Joe Williams]

Remember hearing about a Time Inc. project to digitize all its content. Not just SI but other mags. Is it possible they could have scanned stuff in with character-recognition software turning the old clips into more flexible files?

 

[Freelance Hack]

One of my old haunts had its archive system crash and everything that was in it -- some 10 years worth of articles -- was lost. This was after I left, but I remember coleagues talking about how the paper hired temps to type in the past stories.

That must have been fun.

 

[Rhody31]

I've read a couple stories with minor typos - I'm thinking it was re-typed, but couldn't find anything on the interwebs to confirm.

 

[mike311gd]

One of my old haunts had its archive system crash and everything that was in it -- some 10 years worth of articles -- was lost. This was after I left, but I remember coleagues talking about how the paper hired temps to type in the past stories.

That must have been fun.

It's no worse than typing in schedules, I'm sure.

 

[HejiraHenry]

I'd be stunned if they weren't scanned off-site, probably in India, then given a cursory look-see by hand.

 

[mustangj17]

That sounds like hell for about a hundred people.

 

[Steak Snabler]

 

[write then drink]

I'd be stunned if they weren't scanned off-site, probably in India, then given a cursory look-see by hand.

a cursory look-see is how they edit their copy these days

 

[Jones]

Yeah, 'stang, but I'd bet that every one of them, if they paid even a little bit of attention to what they were doing, are better writers today than they were before.

Of course, after the 1,919th pop culture metaphor, I would have started tuning things out, too.

 

[broadway joe]

I'd be stunned if they weren't scanned off-site, probably in India, then given a cursory look-see by hand.

a cursory look-see is how they edit their copy these days

Given that they're laying off 40 more people, including copy editors, even the cursory look-see might be too much to expect from now on.

 

[Sly]

MR. BURNS: This is a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters. Soon, they'll have written the greatest novel known to mankind. (reads one of the typewriters) "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times"?! you stupid monkey! (monkey screeches)