Thanks. Interestingly I had my NYTimes preferences set to Global edition.
(It can be selected at the top of the sections on the far left.) The Global
edition doesn't link to the Skimmer. I wonder why.

-- Russ


On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>> _____________________________________________
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>> California State University, Los Angeles
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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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