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Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry’s popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. In the course of tracking down the sources of unlicensed distribution, they found many things, including the copying of his column to alt.fan.dave_barry on usenet; a 2000-person strong mailing list also reading pirated versions; and a teenager in the Midwest who was doing some of the copying himself, because he loved Barry’s work so much he wanted everybody to be able to read it. One of the people I was hanging around with online back then was Gordy Thompson, who managed internet services at the New York Times. I remember Thompson saying something to the effect of “When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.” I think about that conversation a lot these days.
The Pour - Dining & Wine - New York Times Blog
Romée de Goriainoff, one of the French partners in the Experimental Cocktail Club Lower East Side, which opened Friday, has more in common with the stars of New York’s cocktail culture than a taste for well-made drinks. Like some of his new peers, he is also a fugitive from the banking business. But it was American-style cocktails that inspired the group (which includes Pierre-Charles Cros, who studied economics, and Olivier Bon, who studied fashion) to open their first bar and lounge in Paris five years ago under the same name.
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.
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- Access to the last two years-worth of columns from the NY Times' noted Op-Ed columnists, including Thomas Friedman , Maureen Dowd , David Brooks , and Paul Krugman . - The first mention of the World Wide Web in the Times in February 1993. According to the article, the purpose of the web is "[to make] available physicists' research from many locations". Also notable are this John Markoff article on the internet being overwhelmed by heavy traffic and growth...in 1993, and a piece, also by Markoff, on the Mosaic web browser . - Early report of Lincoln's assassination ..."The President Still Alive at Last Accounts".
Gems from the archive of the New York Times (kottke.org)
I’ve been getting the predictable hysterical reactions to today’s column. And it’s true — I’m a Sharia Jewish atheist Marxist who hates America! Bwahahaha!
Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog