Links for 2010-01-27
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"Dubai remains ideally placed as the potential nexus of a maturing international sport. Certainly there will be a far greater geographical spread of competition than at the Breeders' Cup…. Moreover the World Cup, previously staged on dirt, will now be contested on a synthetic surface…. [At Santa Anita] there is now distressing talk of the synthetic track being restored to dirt. One conceivable reward for this shocking regression might be a permanent contract to stage the Breeders' Cup. If that were so, the painful but necessary catharsis currently underway in the American sport would be disastrously reversed by its reactionaries. And their inevitable isolation would provide an obvious cue for Meydan."
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"The next step has always been obvious: a festival meeting at the other end of the season. The question is whether the Sheikh still has the energy, the clout and, for that matter, the money to make it happen. Were it not for the unfortunate matter of the entire country nearly going bust a few months ago, the timing would seem ideal. The Breeders' Cup awarded itself the subtitle 'World Thoroughbred Championships' several years ago, but it will be back on dirt this year after two years on an artificial surface. Now that even Santa Anita is apparently ready to reinstall dirt too, American racing seems more inward-looking than ever."
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"… an Apple device that leverages the power of the iTunes store, that makes it easy to buy and read digital content, that opens up for participation from all kinds of publishers, that puts books and magazines on the same level as movies and TV … it could be the missing piece of the puzzle."
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"Almost poignantly, newspaper reporters have stepped up their game, too — and not just because the old-school media executives Apple has been partnering with are such helpless gossips and NDA violators. ‘The New York Times company … is developing a version of its newspaper for the tablet, according to a person briefed on the effort,’ the Times recently reported about the Times. For bloggers, reporting about Apple is great sport, but for the inky set, it's existential. (See: Carr, David.) It's really no wonder we've been witnessing such dogged journalism about Apple's tablet, a product journalists hope will be the salvation of journalism — and journalists."
Posted by Delicious in Miscellany on 01/27/2010 @ 10:01 am / Follow @railbird on Twitter
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