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Urban Planet

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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This Summer's Pool Parties

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."

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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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The Myth, the Math, the Sex

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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Bree, We Knew and Knew Ye

lonelygirl15 is dead.

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'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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Strategist Rising

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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Abbotts -- New York Times

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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IPhone: The Musical

"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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You Do the Math

New York Times on how checks get split.

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Unstoppable

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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Rise of the Takedown

"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."

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The Year Without Toilet Paper

"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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Hunan Resources

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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Can Google Come Out to Play?

All about Google's new New York City office.

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Special Treat in a Box

On NBC's strategy to release the unedited version of the latest Samberg video.

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Permalink the New York Times

"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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On Saturday, They Rested

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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Wallflower at the Web Party

The story of the downfall of Friendster.

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The Starbucks Aesthetic

"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.�

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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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Virtually Cool

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 Ballad of Big Mike

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."

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Technology Rewrites the Book

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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Confidant Crisis

"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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Can I Have This to Go?

The art of the doggy bag.

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The Taming of the Slur

The history of the word 'slut'.

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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 ..."

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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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Free Advertising

"What does it mean when consumers become producers — of commercials."

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Life in the Fast-Food Lane

Frank Bruni chronicles his cross-country fast food voyage.

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24-Hour Sweaty People

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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Welcome to the New Dollhouse

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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A Star Is Made

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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Redesign

New York Times editor briefly explains their web redesign.

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My Darling, My Hamburger

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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The Pour

Eric Asimov's New York Times blog all about wine.

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Diner's Journal

Frank Bruni's new New York Times food blog.

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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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About Typeface

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."

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Cell Phone Area Codes

"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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Korn Sells a Stake in Itself

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."

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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.'"

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On the Subject of Leaks

NYTimes: "Illegal spying and torture need to be investigated, not whistle-blowers and newspapers."

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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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Unbundles of Joy

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.

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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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Social Lubricant

"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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Accessory to Murder

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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The High Life

"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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Type Casting

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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Sorry to Disappoint You

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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Look Smart

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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Blogging 1.0 (continued)

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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Robo-Legs

"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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Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out

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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Love. Angel. Product. Baby.

"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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Take My Privacy, Please!

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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Is Persuasion Dead?

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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A Bad Case of Puppy Love

What happens when you fall in love with the dog and out of love with the woman?

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Monkey Business

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.

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Unmerry Prankster

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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A Blog Revolution? Get a Grip

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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Who Pays $600 for Jeans?

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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On Language: Brand

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

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Keeping Faith With My Father

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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A Blow to the Rule of Law

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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For Kicks

New York Times article on sneaker culture

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Jose Canseco, Hero

"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

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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

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Beck at a Certain Age

New York Times profile of Beck

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The Most Expensive Album Never Made

All about the never-made $13 million Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy

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In the ID Wars, the Fakes Gain

There's an arms race going on between fake ID makers and clubs

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Why Hollywood Says Cheese

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

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The Way We Eat: Tex Macs

New York Times article on Chipotle

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Hell 'n' Keller

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

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The Way We Live Now: Unintelligent Design

Asking questions about intelligent design theories

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God and Evolution

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?

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Funny Bones

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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Consumed: Decked Out

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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Tool for Thought

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

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How to Read a Column

Part of Safire's farewell, he lists his 12 rules of reading a column

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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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Don't Know Much About Algebra

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.

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Friendster, Love and Money

Does Friendster have a viable business plan?

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Never Retire

Safire's reason for retirement: "When you're through changing, you're through."

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'Blink': Hunch Power

David Brooks reviews Gladwell's new book. I agree with pretty much everything he has to say, especially that Blink leaves you wanting more.

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Apple And The Times

A company with three percent market share makes the front page of The Times

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Marketing's Flip Side: The 'Determined Detractor'

Using the net to fight corporations

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The Strongest Force? Any Parent Can Tell You

A physicist suggests that love may be the strongest force in the universe

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Bereaved Cat Owner Gets $50,000 Clone

This is kind of freaky

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Today He Is a Dog; Actually, He Always Was

New York Times covers a dog's Bark Mitzvah

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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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The Best Way to Skip a Stone

Useless knowledge brought to you by the New York Times

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The Blogo Ad

Blogs for marketing purposes make the New York Times A to Z list

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The Hidden (in Plain Sight) Persuaders

Buzz is reshaping marketing

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Kiduage

Reading William Safire write "dropping the kids off at the pool" nearly brought a tear to my eye

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Building a Brand by Not Being a Brand

How American Apparel has found success

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When Every Child Is Good Enough

NYTimes uses The Incredibles to understand the divide in education

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To Avoid Divorce, Move to Massachusetts

With all those red states voting on morals why is it that the bluest of the blues have the lowest divorce rates?

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The Day the Enlightenment Went Out

It is not too early to start yearning back toward the Enlightenment.

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Sports (Winning Tradition)

The outcome of Washington Redskins home football games has correctly predicted the winner of every U.S. presidential election since 1936.

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The Way We Eat: Shop Write

New York Times on grocery lists

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Buzzing the Web on a Meme Machine

The Web is obsessed with anything that spreads, whether it's a virus, a blog or a rumor. And so the Internet loves memes.

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Television Without Pity

A former writer's assistant for 'Friends' is suing saying that what she heard in the writing room was sexual harassment

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When the Edge Moved to the Middle

Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth talks about Kurt Cobain

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Are You With Him? Why Yes, Want to Date Him?

New York Times examines the wing-woman fad

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What You See Is What You Get

A breakdown of the presidential logos

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Truth Stranger Than 'Strangelove'

Dr. Strangelove was quite accurate

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Homework To the Editor

How 29 High School freshman got 17 letters published in the Times

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Need a New Job? Check Out a Blog.

Both employees and employers are using blogs for jobs

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Fabricated Kerry Posting Leads to Apology From Fox News

Can Fox still deny they are Conservatively biased?

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Area Codes, Now Divorced From Their Areas

Interesting story on how area codes are moving around the world

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Sentenced to Be Raped

The terrible/courageous story of a Pakistani rape victim who stood up for herself

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How to Debate George Bush

From Al Gore, the only man who has debated against him in a Presidential debate

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'Laguna Beach': Surfing on a Wave of Adolescent Angst

I watched last night and it sucked, where was the drama? Very disappointing

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Getting to Average

Henry Louis Gates on the possibilites of getting blacks up to the average

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The Candidates, Seen From the Classroom

Comparing the speech styles of Kerry and Bush

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Reading Kerry's Mind

Safire sets out a 10 step plan and includes this quote: "We must convince women that a vote for Bush means a return to back-alley abortions."

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Bridging Hip-Hop Consumers and Suits

Marketing authentically to the hip-hop world is a difficult thing to do

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If at First You Don't Succeed, Believe Harder

Times article about the importance of confidence and other life lessons

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Are You Undecided? Or Not?

Larry David sounds off on undecided voters

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Vote Drives Gain Avid Attention of Youth in '04

Young people are getting registered, but will they vote?

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'Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?'

What will New Yokers do if you ask them for their subway seat for no reason?

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State of the Art: A Computer With the IPod's Bloodlines

A look at the new iMac G5

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Amazon to Take Searches on Web to a New Depth

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Protests Powered by Cellphone

NYTimes covers people using their cellphones to help them organize in a more decentralized way

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The Tablet PC Takes Its Place in the Classroom

NYTimes spots a fairly interesting trend

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What Your College President Didn't Tell You

A former college president takes some bold stances

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Now You See It, Now You Don't

The New York Times covers the decline of the thong . . . finally

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Rock, Paper, Scissors: High Drama in the Tournament Ring

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Friends, Friends With Benefits and the Benefits of the Local Mall

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New York Times Link Generator

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Public Lives: Covering the Convention for Laughs

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The Boys From 'South Park' Go to War

Talking about Team America

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In the Classroom, Web Blogs Are the New Bulletin Boards

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In search of a browser that banishes clutter

People are moving away from internet explorer

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Online Diary: A Last Look at Web Destinations

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Cellphones are altering social behavior in ways that seem counterintuitve

Escape-a-date encourages lying

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Bruce Springsteen and friends hit the road against Bush

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Brian Billick and his connection to technology

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Gallo's new billboard for Brown Bunny

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Ashlee Simpson interview

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Phenomenon: The Roach That Failed

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Payback Time: Why Revenge Tastes So Sweet

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Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?

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Demeaning bloggers: the NYTimes is running scared

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WSJ, NYTimes.com Embrace RSS

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Delgado takes a political stand

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Ken Jennings and multiple intelligences

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When One Is Enough

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A pause for hindsight

The Times looks back on mistakes they made not questioning more about the Iraq invasion

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The New York Times > Home & Garden > Personal Shopper: Supersize That Semicolon

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The Cheerful Confessions of Ali G, Borat and Bruno

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Political Memo: Hear the Rumor on Cheney? Capital Buzzes, Denials Aside

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low culture: That's not reverb, that's delay you're hearing from the mic

Low culture on the delay of the New York Times' trend spotting between sections

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Wired News: Searching for The New York Times

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Good New York Times article on Jeopardy

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The New York Times > International > Asia Pacific > Golfing Mongolia: A 2.3-Million-Yard Par 11,880

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The New York Times > RSS

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The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributor: Share the Music

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The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributor: Thou-Shalt-See TV

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The New York Times > Technology > New Service by TiVo Will Build Bridges From Internet to the TV

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The New York Times > Magazine > Consumed: Poultry-Geist

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