The TimesSkimmer is a wonderful page! I've been going to nytimes.com for a
long time. I also get their daily email. But I never heard of the Skimmer. I
can't even find a link to it from their main page.  How did you hear about
it? Is there a direct link, or do you have to put in the URL?

-- Russ Abbott
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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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