If you go to the NYT homepage -- http://www.nytimes.com/ - look at the 3rd row from from the top and right below the link to "Last Update: 8:52 PM ET" There you will see the link to "Skimmer"
-tj On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Russ Abbott <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > ============================================================ > 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 ==========================================
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