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 _____________________________________________ Professor, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles Cell phone: 310-621-3805 o Check out my blog at http://russabbott.blogspot.com/ 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >>> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > > > -- > ========================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA > www.analyticjournalism.com > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] > > "Be Your Own Publisher" > http://indiepubwest.com > ========================================== > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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