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The Old Ways We Explained New Tech
Tech Buzz When a technology is still new, reporters can't mention it without explaining it. Here's how the NYT first tech-splained the most important new inventions of the last 135 years.
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Image: The New York Times Smells Good
How has this scent not been thought of before? Oh please, like you've never cracked open a book just to smell the pages. Now you can use your ereader without missing the musk of paper and ink.
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Image: New York Times Stopped The Presses
America: the memory of a goldfish. Not entirely sure how I feel about the Alabama tornado aftermath getting completely bumped from the front page.
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New York Times Declares Game Of Thrones For Boys Only
TV Buzz What is this. I can't even…Rage. Building. Ignorance. Painful. No Ginia Bellafante. So much is wrong with the things you were allowed to publish that I must insist you turn your ovaries in immediately.
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Link: Women Who Hit Hard
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29Tennis-t.htm...
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How they have transformed tennis.
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Link: Op-Ed Columnist: Faustus Makes a Deal
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/opinion/22brooks.html?p...
From the confluence of recent events, one might think the Democrats had made a deal with the Devil—and still managed to lose.
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Link: New York Times Bans The Word Tweet “Outside Of Ornithological Contexts”
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/10/new-york-times-tweet/
Too funny. According to The Awl, The New York Times standards editor Phil Corbett yesterday sent a memo (below) to NYT writers asking them to severely cut down on the use of the word “tweet” outside of “ornithological contexts”. Corbett has been overseeing language issues for the paper's newsroom.
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Image: Most Looked-Up NYT Words 2010
Quiz on Friday; spelling counts. (Students will not be responsible for learning crazy words Maureen Dowd made up. Full list here in PDF.)
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Link: Critic’s Notebook: What They Brought to the Table
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/dining/19note.html?part...
My five-plus years of nightly restaurant visits with guests in tow have given me a special vantage point onto people’s temperaments and tics, especially in regard to eating and food.
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Image: Most Looked-Up NYT Words
Here is a list of words so tricky that NYT.com readers can't nod their heads vaguely and pretend to know what in fuck is being said. I'm surprised shibboleth is in the Top Ten; I thought Aaron Sorkin had schooled us pretty thoroughly on that one.
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Daily Show’s NYT Field Trip
TV Buzz The Daily Show went to town at the New York Times offices, basically. I really, really hate to be the “So, how about Jon Stewart last night!” person, but you will be hearing about this. And who doesn't like a good Woodward-Bernstein-bearclaw joke?
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Link: Mogul Ascends With Old Hollywood Clout
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/business/media/10emanue...
The superagent Ariel Z. Emanuel, brother of President Obama's chief of staff, has emerged in the last six weeks as the pre-eminent power player in Hollywood.
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NYT Hires Its First Social Media Editor
Tech Buzz The New York Times might be laying off writers (and dropping the entire Boston Globe), but they just hired their first Social Media Editor. Jennifer Preston will be the Twittering, Tumblring, Facebooking, etc. master of the Times — and she's already soliciting Twitter for ideas on how to do just that. Is she on Buzzfeed yet? Jennifer, is that you posting 'shopped Kate Gosselins?
