TAG: nytimes
Steven Johnson New York Times blog on cities is released from behind the Times' paywall.
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NYTimes.Com Aggregates Third-Party Content, Marks Transformation of Media
"The New York Times joins what I expect will be a rapidly expanding list of media brands that aim to create value for their readers by aggregating the best third-party content from across the web."
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Great infographic from the New York Times breaking down this summer's McCarren Pool concerts.
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Consuming Less While Getting More
"The annual report found that for the first time since 1997, the average American’s media intake dropped in 2006. The 0.5 percent decline is not statistically significant, but does conform with longtime trends that show a flattening in media consumption
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Seeing Corporate Fingerprints in Wikipedia Edits
"A new Web site reveals that many of the most obviously self-interested changes come from corporate networks."
Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy's Couch
"If you accept one pretty reasonable assumption, it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in someone else's computer simulation."
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If It Says McDonald's, Then It Must Be Good
"Some food tastes better to children if they think it came from McDonald's, a small study suggests."
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It's mathmatically impossible that men could have more sexual partners than women.
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Product Packages Now Shout to Get Your Attention
"Consumer goods companies are using their products’ packages as 3-D ads to grab shoppers’ fickle attention."
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Research Note: Strategic Errors Mini Case Study - TimesSelect
"The NYT has lost two years of building edge competencies: learning how to turn stale, inert columnists into managers of living, breathing markets, networks, and communities; learning how to redefine brands . . . "
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lonelygirl15 is dead.
'Fake Steve' Blogger Comes Clean
An editor at Forbes has been lampooning Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, on a popular blog, “Fake Steve.�
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William Safire talks about how the title "strategist" is all the hype.
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Find Yourself Packing It On? Blame Friends
"The answer, the researchers report, was that people were most likely to become obese when a friend became obese. That increased a person’s chances of becoming obese by 57 percent."
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Martin Nowak - In Games, an Insight Into the Rules of Evolution
"Martin Nowak’s projects may seem randomly scattered across the sciences but they share an underlying theme: cooperation."
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Now a Message From a Sponsor of the Subway?
"That said, some industry experts, noting that subway stations do not quite resonate in the public imagination the way baseball stadiums do, said the authority might have a hard sell on its hands."
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All about homemade bitters.
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In Poker Match Against a Machine, Humans Are Better Bluffers
"Hidden cards and risk-taking behavior like bluffing have made poker a difficult challenge for software designers. But as with chess and checkers, the computers are catching up."
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In Small Packages, Fewer Calories and More Profit
"In three years, sales of 100-calorie snack packs have passed the $20-million-a-year mark, as consumers don’t seem to mind paying more for less."
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A Rat With a Whisk and a Dream
All about the culinary realism in Pixar's Ratatouille.
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"David Pogue [of the New York Times] ditches his old cellphone for the iPhone in this sing-a-long sequel." Who said the old gray lady can't get down and have fun sometimes?
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A Long Line for a Shorter Wait at the Supermarket
"A single-line, bank-style checkout system has given Whole Foods one of the fastest grocery store lines in New York."
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The Old Model: TimesSelect Is A Failure
"TimesSelect, the world's stupidest pay-for-content bar to a good user experience, has 222,300 paying members as of May, according to a report just released by the Times."
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New York Times on how checks get split.
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Riding a bike without brakes on the streets of New York may sound insane. But to the zealous adherents of fixed-gear bikes, they are a thing of beauty and a way of life.
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Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage?
A new theory of the hit record.
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"Hecklers have moved toward the mainstream, making headlines, torpedoing careers, and exploiting a new stage of their own on video-sharing Web sites like YouTube."
"To reduce their impact on the environment, two New Yorkers give up what most take for granted."
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JetBlue Begins Reimbursing Stranded Passengers
"The company will begin payments ranging from $25 toward a future flight to a round-trip ticket to passengers kept waiting by the airline’s own mistakes."
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Beyond the X's and O's, a Lesson in How to Be Big
"For starters, protect the product by limiting its exposure."
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The Best Town to Make an Upper Lip Stiff
"An explosion of cocktail quality and variety in London’s watering holes is making this city a new locus for connoisseurs of mixed drinks."
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Finally, the history of General Tso's Chicken.
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Brands Produce Their Own Shows
"More marketers are creating their own TV shows in the hopes of endearing viewers to the brands behind them."
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Breakfast Is Late, So Business Is Good
"For the late-rising professions, the networking site of choice is a cafe with a Continental vibe."
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Google Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm
"Google, in typical eccentric fashion, has created an automated way to search for well-rounded candidates."
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Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don't
"Experiments suggest that the conscious choice is an illusion, but some philosophers and physicists choose to disagree."
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All about Google's new New York City office.
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On NBC's strategy to release the unedited version of the latest Samberg video.
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"Under the new model, a blogger can permanently "activate" the content, distribute it and allow the New York Times to generate ongoing ad revenue from the article."
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Only the New York Times would print a story about how no one in New York goes out on Saturday nights . . .
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The story of the downfall of Friendster.
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"As Mr. Schultz sees it, customers get a new cultural experience and Starbucks gets a 'halo'  the associations people have with beloved music, with 'quality, good will, trust, intelligence.'"
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A Newspaper Investigates Its Future
"The [Los Angeles] Times is dedicating three investigative reporters and half a dozen editors to find ideas, at home and abroad, for re-engaging the reader, both in print and online."
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Swimming With Famous Dead Sharks
On the replacement of the shark in Damien Hirst's famous “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.�
Paradigm shift: What Google didn't buy
"They could have considered buying The New York Times. But no--they didn't, did they--and the decision to spend all this money on YouTube shows that the coffin nails of mainstream media are already strewn across the open grave"
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Flavorpill is a different kind of long tail business.
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How Did Newspapers Land in This Mess?
"The underlying theme in Tribune’s unraveling is that in a time of technological transition, the two publics that are served by many of the nation’s newspapers are no longer getting along so well."
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And if You Liked the Movie, a Netflix Contest May Reward You Handsomely
Netflix is offering $1 million prize for improving their collaborative filtering by at least 10 percent.
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The bizarre story of Michael Oher, left tackle for Ole' Miss.
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A Sense of Belonging Among Belongings
"Zebo.com, a new Web site devoted to lists of everyday possessions of young consumers, with postings from the United States, Canada, Britain and Ireland and as far across the globe as the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand."
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Blogs About Business Travel Begin to Feel the Power
Another article about bloggers getting attention from busiesses.
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A Little Learning Is an Expensive Thing
A former president of Emory and Wesleyan Universities tells the truth about college.
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Interview with Rob Walker, Writer
"PSFK sat down with Rob Walker, a columnist for the New York Times Magazine, and picked his brain about where and how he gets inspired."
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All the news that's fit for bits
Martin Nisenholtz is presiding over a surge in digital revenue at the old gray lady.
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Roger Federer as Religious Experience
"How one player’s grace, speed, power, precision, kinesthetic virtuosity, and seriously wicked topspin are transfiguring men’s tennis."
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Lily Allen, Britainâ s New Pop Star, Has Cheek, and Bite, to Spare
"She symbolizes a new blogging-age, middle-class girl: cockily ambitious, skeptical yet enthusiastic, technically savvy, musically open, obsessed with public expression and ready to fight back."
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Newspapers to Use Links to Rivals on Web Sites
Baby steps . . .
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Wonkette's Ingredients for a Successful Blog
"The idea that someone could enter into a conversation, you know, based just on having an opinion and an argument. And it’s a conversation that includes people who have real power in the world."
New services allow print runs of a few, or just one, for customers ranging from aspiring authors to anyone who needs a bound document.
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Saving the World, One Video Game at a Time
Using video games to help people udnerstand complex topics.
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"Perhaps, as the study’s authors themselves hint at one point, we’ve also gotten better at demarcating what constitutes truly intimate communing  expecting more of our confidants, we have, in effect, defined intimacy up."
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The art of the doggy bag.
The history of the word 'slut'.
The N.B.A. Draft: Now for Grown-Ups Only!
"Garnett shifted the paradigm for hopp greatness: suddenly, attending college was almost like admitting your game had flaws. College was for the staunchly nontranscendent."
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What Goes Down Drain Eventually Bobs Up Here
"The best place to see Manhattan's byproducts  what is stuffed down its sinks, flushed down its toilets and washed from its gutters  can't be found in tour ..."
For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Resume
College kids are facing the hard truth from all the stuff they've posted about themselves online.
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The N.B.A.'s Secret Superstars
What the non-scorers do matters, and in fact, it is those players who might ultimately decide who gets to be crowned NBA champions.
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What Netflix Could Teach Hollywood
Five million families now have a Netflix account, making it one of the most impressive companies around. So why do so many people think it's doomed?
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Take This Internship and Shove It
"What if the growth of unpaid internships is bad for the labor market and for individual careers?"
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"What does it mean when consumers become producers  of commercials."
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Frank Bruni chronicles his cross-country fast food voyage.
A day in the life of a 24-hour gym.
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Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel
"The notion that lactic acid was bad took hold more than a century ago, said George A. Brooks, a professor in the department of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley. It stuck because it seemed to make so much sense."
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Barbie? Who's Barbie? Young girls are playing electronic house with The Sims, and the game lets them tell their own stories.
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Trying to answer the question: "When someone is very good at a given thing, what is it that actually makes him good?"
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Laura Fields and the Page Three Sutra
Looking at the convergence of advertising and news on Page Three of the New York Times.
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New York Times editor briefly explains their web redesign.
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New York Times' critic Frank Bruni reviews the Burger Joint at the Parker Meridien Hotel.
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A Guest Blogger, and an Unwritten Law
George Clooney doesn't really write a blog post. Arienna Huffington refuses to apologize and says the medium is not the message. Everyone gets real mad. Huffington finally realizes she's wrong and apologizes. Times picks up story.
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Eric Asimov's New York Times blog all about wine.
Frank Bruni's new New York Times food blog.
Cosby's Lawyers See No Flattery in an Imitation
The New York Times covers Andy Baio (waxy.org) being told to get rid of the Cosby parodies he's hosting.
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The New York Times touches on the current fascination with type.
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Explaining Ice: The Answers Are Slippery
"What makes Olympic ice skaters slide across the ice? Physicists still disagree over the answer to this seemingly simple question."
"Younger people are not tied to a location anymore," said Ritch Blasi, Cingular's director of media relations. "They really are tied to their phones."
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Madison Avenue's 30-Second Spot Remover
Robert M. Greenberg is redefining advertising by making the delivery of the message a two-way street between marketers and consumers.
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How Pixar Adds a New School of Thought to Disney
"We've made the leap from an idea-centered business to a people-centered business. Instead of developing ideas, we develop people. Instead of investing in ideas, we invest in people."
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Live Nation Inc. "is paying roughly $3 million for an estimated 6 percent stake in the band's box office, licensing, publishing, merchandise and CD revenue for its recently released album and its next album."
Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His 'Problem Child'
Albert Hoffman, inventor of LSD: "LSD spoke to me. He came to me and said, 'You must find me.' He told me, 'Don’t give me to the pharmacologist.'"
NYTimes: "Illegal spying and torture need to be investigated, not whistle-blowers and newspapers."
Behind the Eavesdropping Story, a Loud Silence
New York Times public editor Byron Calame asks some tough questions about the delay of the eavesdropping article.
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The New York Times picks up unbundling in a very unimpressive way.
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Google's Shopping Service to List User's Local Stores
Merchants will be able to feed Google Base their inventory, which will be integrated with Froogle to give local results.
10 Ways to Please Us, the Customers
David Pogue's 10 commandments to electronics makers
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The Lives of Teenagers Now: Open Blogs, Not Locked Diaries
""The more kids are involved with digital content creation, the more thinkers will emerge that will eventually produce tomorrow's innovative products," said Brendan Erazo, a 15-year-old."
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Skewering Tradition to Sell a New Battery to the Young
"The Oxyride campaign is indicative of increasing efforts from mainstream advertisers to expand beyond traditional media like television and newspapers."
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His 'Secret' Movie Trailer Is No Secret Anymore
NYTimes covers Robert Ryang's remixed Shining trailer
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How Would You Change The 'New York Times'?
An AdAge article in which a few designers think about how to fix the New York Times
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"But lurking behind it is the more intriguing fact that it is a marketing campaign -- not a political figure, or a major news organization, or even a film -- that ''opened a dialogue'' (as one of the young women said to People)."
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But Is There Intelligent Spaghetti Out There?
"Is the super-intelligent, super-popular god known as the Flying Spaghetti Monster any match for the prophets of intelligent design?"
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NYTimes: "A backpack! Has a more ordinary, more benign, more ubiquitous accouterment of modern life ever taken on such a sudden connotation of darkness?"
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"Ah, the summer rooftop party, one of the delights of New York socializing, whether the setting is a Fifth Avenue terrace with manicured topiary or a sprawl of tar in Chelsea miraculously transformed by a Weber grill . . . into an egalitarian penthouse".
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On the Job, the Pauses That Refresh
NYTimes: "There is a point, of course, where distraction becomes blatant slacking off, but I would argue that some percentage of time wasted during work is actually a part of the work."
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NYTimes: "While most of us don't think about typography, beyond choosing among the preinstalled fonts in our home computers, consider an up-and-coming font, like Bello."
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The fired nanny from the New York Times article refutes many of the claims from "The Nanny Diaries are Now Online"
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The New Nanny Diaries Are Online
Once again showing that people don't get fired for blogs, but for their indiscretion in using them.
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Marketers See Opportunity as a Web Tool Gains Users
New York Times jumps on the RSS advertising article bandwagon. Let the downward spiral begin.
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Dear Blog: Today I Worked on My Book
"For years, book authors have used the Internet to publicize their work and to keep in touch with readers. Several, like Mr. Battelle, are now experimenting with maintaining blogs while still in the act of writing their books."
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The Star Maker of the Semipopular
NYTimes profile of Nic Harcourt, DJ of KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic
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On Moleskines: "Even if you're carrying it to another boring staff meeting to take notes about sales projections, the notebook makes for a fantastic emblem of creative possibility."
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A VC: "Blogging 2.0 has developed to the point that the $410 million that The New York Times paid for About.com is going to look really cheap in a few years."
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Web Content by and for the Masses
The next generation web will be read/write . . . wow New York Times, way to be on the ball.
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The Speech the President Should Give
John Kerry walks through the things the President should do about the military situation in Iraq
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Take That, Evil! In Queens Park, a Superhero Prevails
Bibleman hits queens
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"The line that has long separated human beings from the machines that assist them is blurring as complex technologies become a visible part of people who depend upon them."
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NYTimes: "To geek out on something means to immerse yourself in its details to an extent that is distinctly abnormal - and to have a good time doing it."
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"A pop star salutes skillful shoppers, and the act of buying becomes a commodity itself."
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Schiavo Autopsy Renews Debate on G.O.P. Actions
Not even an autopsy declaring Schiavo braindead can deter republicans
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Ted Koppel: "We cannot even begin to control the growing army of businesses and industries that monitor what we buy, what we watch on television, where we drive . . . "
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NYTimes: "Alienation is the only intelligent response to a political culture that insults our intelligence."
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The White Stripes Change Their Spots
NYTimes: "On June 7, the White Stripes return with a thrilling new album, "Get Behind Me Satan" (Third Man/V2/BMG), that goes a long way toward dismantling the band's goofy mythology."
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Facts of Life, for Their Eyes Only
The history of fifth grade sex education videos.
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What happens when you fall in love with the dog and out of love with the woman?
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As part of an economics experiment they taught monkeys to use money. In time the monkeys learned to steal and even pay for sex.
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Loosing Google's Lock on the Past
"But if misery loves company, then there is solace in knowing that many people bristle at the mere thought of being Googled because of the photographs, news clippings or blog entries that they feel do not reflect who they really are."
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Student's Start-Up Draws Attention and $13 Million
"Five years after the Internet bubble burst, a new generation of Web start-ups is quietly attracting investment capital. Thefacebook.com typifies the breed: a company that is built on substance rather than high expectations."
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It's All in How the Dog Is Served
Everything you ever needed or wanted to know about hot dogs in the Tri-State Area.
NYTimes: "On the spur-of-the-moment, Simon Curtis, inset, grabbed a self-portrait of Michelle Cortez from 31 Grand, a Williamsburg gallery, during an art opening."
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NYTimes: "DON'T ask Nick Denton, publisher of Gawker Media and its growing list of popular Web logs, about his empire. "People come up to me as if it's witty and say, 'How is the empire going?' " Mr. Denton said, "which is pretty pathetic.""
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Magazines Find Ways to Include Unconventional Elements in Deals With Marketers
"So just as the TV networks seek to entice marketers with sales packages that go beyond running 30-second spots. . . publishers are also developing elaborate offers that involve more than just running ad pages or advertorial sections in their magazines."
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NYTimes: "It's going to come down to how your behind looks when you pour yourself into them. No matter how good the wash or the detail or the label, if it doesn't look good on a behind, it won't sell."
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From Apple, a Tiger to Put in Your Mac
New York Times review of Tiger by David Pogue
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The New York Times Company Reports NYTimes.com's Record-Breaking Traffic for March
"NYTimes.com's RSS feeds generated 5.9 million pageviews on the site in March, which represents a 342% increase year over year and a 39% increase from February's 4.3 million pageviews."
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William Safire goes off on "branding"
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Online Shopping Makes New York a Cardboard Jungle
NYTimes: "After two years and two million deliveries (and $600,000 in parking tickets), FreshDirect has become the online grocery service that many New Yorkers have embraced"
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Hybrid-Car Tinkerers Scoff at No-Plug-In Rule
People are starting to hack their Prius' . . . cool
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On the Internet, 2nd (and 3rd and . . . ) Opinions
NYTimes: "Not all lists are so much fun. There are plenty of boring lists on the Web. Everyday, Web contests list their winners. Every blog has a running tab of favorite Web sites. Many of them take a good part of a minute to scroll through."
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They're In on the Joke: Hollywood's Funniest Clique
A look at how Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller and Co. are changing the way movies are made by keeping the whole process insular.
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Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged TV News
NYTimes: "Under the Bush administration, the federal government has aggressively used a well-established tool of public relations: the prepackaged, ready-to-serve news report that major corporations have long distributed to TV stations . . ."
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Outakes from The New York Times Article
Banksy makes the New York Times
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Epithet Morphs From Bad Girl to Weak Boy
New York Times examines the use of the word "bitch," especially directed towards males
NYTimes: "When does saving a life mean stealing a death?"
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Meant for Space, but Useful on Earth
NYTimes: "fter nearly two decades of research, NASA is testing a device that would recycle astronauts' sweat, urine and even the moisture from their breath into drinking water."
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NYTimes: "The founders believed in a nation in which, as Justice Robert Jackson once wrote, we would "submit ourselves to rulers only if under rules." There is no place in such a system for a special law creating rights for only one family."
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For Those of You Who Wonder How That TV Show Began
Fox is going to start offering DVDs for $10 that include a few episodes from the first season of shows and a $10 rebate to buy the full DVD
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A Night Out With: Keren Ann: Shore Leave in Home Port
NYTimes: "Places where you can get lost, where there are people everywhere but you're used to isolation, to being on your own, they suit people like me."
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To-Do List: Shop, Pay Bills, Organize Brain
Using mind mapping software to help you get things done
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New York Times article on sneaker culture
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"I've never seen a man who seems more comfortable with who he is than Jose Canseco. Not with who we think he is, like our current president, or with his best idea of himself, like our president's predecessor, but with himself: charmer and snake . . ."
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Drinking Game Can Be a Deadly Rite of Passage
People die when they take 21 shots in an hour . . . is that news?
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An SAT Without Analogies Is Like: (A) A Confused Citizenry...
NYTimes: "Since the SAT no longer contains analogy questions, here is one: A nation whose citizens cannot tell a true analogy from a false one is like - fill in your own image for precipitous decline."
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Can Papers End the Free Ride Online?
New York Times writes about newspapers deciding to charge for content online. Foreshadowing?
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No Need to Stew: A Few Tips to Cope With Life's Annoyances
The things people do when they're annoyed
Think of a Number ... Come On, Think!
What are impact of cell phones on our memory?
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Here's a Switch: Tips From the Delivery Guys
Some tips from New York City delivery guys
New York Times profile of Beck
The Most Expensive Album Never Made
All about the never-made $13 million Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy
In the ID Wars, the Fakes Gain
There's an arms race going on between fake ID makers and clubs
Photo booths are all the rage
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In New York, the World Is Brought to Your Door
The New York Times on food delivery in New York City
New York Times article on Chipotle
Bloggers and critics put the New York Times executive editor through it. He gives it back.
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Romance Beckons (in Case You Missed It)
The story of a successful Craig's List missed connection
The Way We Live Now: Unintelligent Design
Asking questions about intelligent design theories
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Are humans hard-wired to be religious?
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Between Truth and Lies, An Unprintable Ubiquity
What's really going on with bullshit?
An interview with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
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In Barrooms, Smoking Ban Is Less Reviled
I haven't talked to anyone who has a problem with the New York smoking ban anymore
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Why selling skateboards is much harder than selling the idea of skateboarding
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Not Just for Emergencies Anymore
The elderly are increasingly making cell phones a part of their everyday life
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How new software may help us think more effectively
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The Man in Front of the Curtain
Steve Martin thanks Johnny Carson
Part of Safire's farewell, he lists his 12 rules of reading a column
Pumping Elbow to Elbow? Must Be January
I've always found it amusing to watch the numbers balloon at the gym during certain times of year. Especially January.
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It is puzzling that if you add X (no exit strategy) to Y (Why are we there?) you get W²: George Bush's second inauguration.
Does Friendster have a viable business plan?
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Safire's reason for retirement: "When you're through changing, you're through."
David Brooks reviews Gladwell's new book. I agree with pretty much everything he has to say, especially that Blink leaves you wanting more.
A company with three percent market share makes the front page of The Times
Marketing's Flip Side: The 'Determined Detractor'
Using the net to fight corporations
The Strongest Force? Any Parent Can Tell You
A physicist suggests that love may be the strongest force in the universe
Bereaved Cat Owner Gets $50,000 Clone
This is kind of freaky
Today He Is a Dog; Actually, He Always Was
New York Times covers a dog's Bark Mitzvah
Fooey to the World: Festivus Is Come
NYTimes on the true history of Festivus
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Twice the Annoyance, but a Tradition Emerges
Chrismakkuh hits the OC again and The New York Times is right there to document it
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