Dilbert Mash: Readers Now Write the Last Panel
Dilbert syndicate United Universal re-launched Dilbert.com with an emphasis on interactivity. The Flash-heavy makeover lets readers modify the last panel in the strip with their own punch lines, and then supposedly let anyone embed the mashups on their sites.
While the syndicate gets kudos for opening up the strip, fans are holding their nose on the redesign. From Slashdot:
Gone is the old, rather clunky but perfectly functional, website, replaced by a Flash-heavy website that only Mordac the Preventer of Information Services could love.
You can also add this to the what were they thinking department: when embedding the mash-up, only the last panel appears leaving users with a punch line but no joke.
Michael Cervieri is Executive Producer of ScribeMedia.Org and an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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