I've been trying to make the case for 15+ yrs that the ink-on-paper
newspaper would become largely a tip sheet to the full and rich stories
posted on the web.
Lately, I've been using http://www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer/

-tj

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote:

> Twitter centric twitters.  Someone who studies tweets and reports their
> results in the same form.
>
> At the recommendation of a New York Times blogger,
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/adding-controlled-serendipity-to-the-web,
> I have begun following @atul and @brainpicker on twitter, thus placing
> another nail in the coffin of traditional journalism.
>
> So twitter is essentially the lead sentence of the lead paragraph of a news
> article, or, rather, the population of all the lead sentences in competition
> for the attention of the twitterati.  So, logically, the next step in the
> deconstruction of journalism would be a lead paragraph publication service,
> collecting blips of, say, up to 700 characters.  Squawk.com would be good,
> except it's owned by someone at spamgourmet.com which doesn't sound
> appetizing at all.
>
> Hmm, lede.com is parked on an ad-farm, who's got a budget?
>
> -- rec --
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> FYI
>>
>> http://neoformix.com/2010/TopVizDiscussedOnTwitter2.html
>> *"More Visualization Links on Twitter* *By: Jeff Clark    Date: Sat, 23
>> Jan 2010*
>>
>> * In a recent post I showed the Top 20 Individual Data Visualizations
>> Mentioned on 
>> Twitter<http://neoformix.com/2010/TopVizDiscussedOnTwitter.html>and remarked 
>> that many of the most frequently mentioned twitter links were
>> to collections of visualizations. Shown below is a meta list of the top
>> collection-type data visualization or infographic links. "
>> *
>>
>>
>> -tj
>>
>>
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