Photography's near monopoly of the printed page, which was essentially a new development back then, bequeathed us yet another inheritance: without a photograph, frequently there is no story, whereas a dramatic picture means a story, good or otherwise, with a some text trailing in its wake.
The driving offences, the lies, the jilted wife, the cover-up, and a career in the knacker's yard - in my eyes, they are all dwarfed in resonance by the tragic dislocation of Huhne's relationship with his then teenaged son, which was exposed in court by the disclosure of the text message trail between the two.
Here's what we learn from this: don't try to hook up with underage girls on MySpace, and if you do, then make sure they're not texting a trail right to where you are.
A quick "click" on an article, would bring up a bigger picture and what we call the "trail text" the quick one sentance synopsis.
There are a few nods to the responsive concept, though – watch as "trail text" appears underneath related content headlines as the device width increases (or you resize your browser).
Breuer said that the old Guardian website application had a lead story, trail texts and five or six sublinks [those links to other related stories] all in the same colour.
Portio Research, a British firm that tracks mobile messaging globally, predicted that the market for such multimedia messaging, while still trailing text messaging, would reach $31.5 billion by the end of 2010, following a 48 percent increase in traffic last year worldwide and a 22 percent increase in revenues.
A long trail of text messages on his phone made it clear that he was having an affair with a cocktail waitress.
The couple who sought to adopt Kaylee also claim that they had discussed an open adoption with Colby and Kaylee's mother, a fact that Colby and his attorney claim is deemed false by a trail of text messages.
The dancing is curiously half-hearted – scuffles and lifts that are physical enough, but trail after the text rather than taking the stage or developing into choreography.
