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Links for 2009-04-22

• 2009 Derby contender workout reports
  From DRF's Mike Welsch. Posted daily, now with video (of Welsch, not the contenders). Work of the Day for 4/21/09: Pioneerof the Nile. "Just a long, beautiful stride," says Welsch of the colt's on-track action. "No doubt in my mind he will handle conventional dirt as well as he handles synthetics."
  (tags: horseracing kentucky-derby workouts)
• In Defense of Eye Candy
  Aesthetics matter; appearance affects usability. What web designers have long believed has now been proven.
  (tags: web-design usability branding research user-experience)
• Why journalists should learn to code
  "… know that there will come a time when basic coding will become an integral part of a journalist's duties." Writer conflates coding with programming, but essential point is sound. Any creative or media professional should have a grasp of simple HTML and CSS.
  (tags: media journalism code)

Posted in Miscellany on April 22, 2009

Links for 2009-04-21

• Derby Statistics
  Kennedy's Corridor Derby stats posts archive. Very thorough (speed, number of starts, prep races, etc.).
  (tags: horseracing handicapping statistics kentucky-derby)
• Derby Dynamics
  "The big question at this point is, who will be the pace factors?" Steve Haskin spins out the possibilities.
  (tags: horseracing handicapping pace kentucky-derby)
• Underbelly: What haughty startup bloggers don't tell you
  "Running a little company is frickin' frightening." Perspective for the entrepreneur in need of bucking up.
  (tags: start-ups entrepreneurship business)
• It's not the news. It's the packaging.
  "Maybe, rather than paying for news, per se, people will be willing to pay for smart packages of it." I don't doubt it.
  (tags: media media-experiments business-media journalism)

Posted in Miscellany on April 21, 2009

Links for 2009-04-17

• Roses unlikely for Dunkirk
  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.
• Leitch on John Madden: Boom Went the Dynamite
  “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.”
• Gain more Twitter followers for your news organization
  Practical advice for building your follower list in a way that furthers your goals, adds depth to your community.
• What’s really industry changing about cloud computing?
  Items #3 and 4 are particulary exciting to contemplate.

Posted in Miscellany on April 17, 2009