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.
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."
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