Links for 2009-04-17
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Jon White explains his system: “When a horse gets three or more strikes, I toss them out. That’s because since I developed this system, no horse has won the Kentucky Derby with more than two strikes.” Pioneerof the Nile, Desert Party — no strikes. Dunkirk — three strikes.
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“John Madden announced his retirement from NFL broadcasting this morning in a simple fashion his old colleague Pat Summerall would appreciate: ‘It’s time. I’m 73 years old.’ And he’s right: It’s definitely time.”
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Practical advice for building your follower list in a way that furthers your goals, adds depth to your community.
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Items #3 and 4 are particulary exciting to contemplate.
Links for 2009-04-16
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"We know all that, but we’re no longer willing to cut Amazon any slack, because we don’t trust them, and we don’t trust them because we feel like they did something bad, even though we now know, intellectually, that they didn’t actually do the bad thing we’ve come to hate them for." Or, as Andy Baio said, "Outrage has its own momentum." See also, Merlin Mann, "Problem with mob justice is the ones who're more interested in the mob than the justice." Interesting parallels to Mullins incident and reaction.
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"Speed, marketing, audience-building, tweeting." True, no matter the beat.
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Daily Kos looks at a week's worth of sources, finds newspapers make up less than 20%, concludes, “We live in a rich media environment …”
Links for 2009-04-15
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More on Dubai: Responding to "The dark side of Dubai," Desert Blogger reminds readers, "it's important to get things in perspective. The lack of media freedom … has the unfortunate side effect of destroying credibility … it is simply not possible to differentiate the truths from the half-truths, and the assumptions from the downright lies, unless you are here, staring it in the face." But here's the thing, while the Independent article definitely had a marxist slant, its main point re: the socioeconomic structure of Dubai is not being refuted. Instead, critics reply with …
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First World retorts: "As far as I can tell there is a crunch going on, just like everywhere else…. The mood is the same, if not maybe slightly more upbeat than the US or Japan these days. Instead of taking an hour and a half to get across town, it takes half an hour, instead of 3 days in advance reservations for the lounge/bar at The Address, it's 2 days and you can usually get a table at the nice restaurants with less than a hour wait now … usually."
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And umbrage: "Say for example that I had written an article that states that, in wealthy first world Britain there are 380,000 homeless people, many of them mentally ill, starving and abandoned in sub-zero temperatures to live on the streets …" Be polite? That's where that argument goes. But avoiding the subject gets no closer to answering the question the Independent reporter started with: What is daily life and the economy like in Dubai now, especially for immigrant laborers?
Links for 2009-04-14
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James Quinn analyzes speed and pace figures for Derby prospects, concludes, "Quality Road may be expected to repulse Dunkirk, all right, but once he does that, he may not be capable of holding Pioneerof the Nile safe." Could it be that simple this year? I’m skeptical. [DRF+ sub. req.]
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"Sports-blog network SB Nation is now officially sanctioned by the NHL. Posts from its 29 hockey blogs now appear as linked headlines on the homepage of NHL.com." [Shades of NTRA online task force plan.]
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Beyond Twitter: "It's no secret that I'm a huge proponent of self-hosted microblogging…. Not sold on this idea? Read what I wrote earlier about the implications of ESPN running their own sports network …" [Thanks, PtP.]
Links for 2009-04-10
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"For while their achievements together have lent an air of immutability to the partnership between O'Brien and his patrons at Coolmore Stud, the man himself shares no such illusions. Sooner or later, he candidly expects the emperors — John Magnier, and his partners at Coolmore — to end up with a new general. Already there are intimations of a long-term shift."
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Follow the conversation: This bookmarklet loads comments from Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Reddit, blogs, etc. mentioning an article or post, displaying all in a handy sidebar.
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Sharp analysis of AP's campaign against aggregators and search indexes.
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