Links for 2009-04-08
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Turf writers not alone in decline: "Baseball's independent press corps … is fading. As newspapers cut budgets and payrolls, the press boxes at major league ballparks are becoming increasingly lonely places, signaling a future when some games may be chronicled only by wire services, house organs and web writers watching the games on television."
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A theory of disaggregated coherence: "What’s clear is that the flow … will no longer be linear, but convoluted."
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"The thing you have to understand about Dubai is – nothing is what it seems," Karen says at last. "Nothing. This isn't a city, it's a con-job. They lure you in telling you it's one thing – a modern kind of place – but beneath the surface it's a medieval dictatorship."
Links for 2009-04-06
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Recklessness, defined: "New York stewards scratched Gato Go Win from the Bay Shore Stakes (G3) on Saturday at Aqueduct after security personnel said they saw trainer Jeff Mullins attempting to administer a substance to the colt before the race." (Nice scoop, excellent reporting, commenter EJXD2!)
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Exactly: "So maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products, hire people that represent the company well, and when your stuff is so awesome that friends share it with other friends, you may not even need 'social media marketing' after all." (Thanks, GbG)
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More than voice: "If you want to attract an audience in the competitive online information market … you need to choose some values to believe in, and to express them, defend them, and practice them before your audience."
Links for 2009-04-03
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I love this! Andy Serling and Eric Donovan honor winter meet stars.
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"These technology companies understand something basic: it’s all about the end user. They do crazy little things like open up their APIs to allow other businesses to add their own innovations, create better ways to use data, combine efforts rather than zealously guarding doors that would be better left wide open." Talking publishing, but could be talking racing.
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Two services for managing overload.
links for 2009-04-02
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Pranked! By the formidable duo of Superterrific and Swifty.
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"The early fractions made the Florida Derby among the slowest-paced of dirt preps thus far. Quality Road's tactical speed and patience gave him an advantage over Dunkirk, who was farther back [approximately eight lengths behind through the first half] than expected and launched a powerful burst leaving the three-eighths pole that I timed at :11.7 for a furlong and :24.1 for a quarter-mile [compare that to :24.62 for Quality Road] in his stakes debut and only the third start of his career."
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Writing clearly and effectively online.
Links for 2009-04-01
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Or, the origins of the modern race-day drug dilemma. From Sports Illustrated, 1960: "Nevertheless, in the two weeks since [Butazolidin] was legalized in Illinois, of the 407 horses that received it 124 finished in the money. Many of them were long shots…. the remarkable reversals of form seemingly attributable to the drug brought some horseplayers to the point of joyful hysteria."
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A TED talk not just about newspapers, but about the power of design to shape experience and drive customer behavior in any industry. "Design can change not just your product … it can change your company." [Shades of this belief in Stronach's Gulfstream remodeling? I'd like to visit to find out.]
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