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Links for 2009-04-03

• Stars of the Inner Track – Aqueduct 2009
  I love this! Andy Serling and Eric Donovan honor winter meet stars.
  (tags: horseracing aqueduct inner-track honors)
• If I Were A Gatekeeper
  "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.
  (tags: media publishing technology)
• How I keep track of information
  Two services for managing overload.
  (tags: information information-management tracking tools)

Posted in Miscellany on April 3, 2009

links for 2009-04-02

• Raceday 365
  Pranked! By the formidable duo of Superterrific and Swifty.
  (tags: humor r360wire)
• Speed bias? No, the pace
  "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."
  (tags: horseracing handicapping pace kentucky-derby)
• How the web made me a better copywriter
  Writing clearly and effectively online.
  (tags: blogging writing copywriting web)

Posted in Miscellany on April 2, 2009

Links for 2009-04-01

• The mysterious Buty treatment
  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."
  (tags: horseracing drugs-in-racing bute for-rdmeds)
• Jacek Utko asks, "Can design save the newspaper?"
  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.]
  (tags: media culture inspiration creativity design experience-design)

Posted in Miscellany on April 1, 2009