StatSheet Is Writing Sports Stories With Software – NYTimes.com"This month, StatSheet unveiled StatSheet Network, made up of separate Web sites for each of the 345 N.C.A.A. Division I men’s basketball teams. Beyond statistics galore, each site has what the company calls “automated content,” stories written entirely by software, including write-ups of the team’s games, past [...]
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All About News+ | Bonnier AB"In December 2009, Bonnier launched Mag+, a format that quickly set a new standard for digital magazines. [...] The lessons learned from Mag+ have shaped the development of a new digital format for tomorrow's newspapers: News+." (launch magazines ipad frameworks ) A/B testing for headlines: Now available for WordPress » [...]
Matt Taibbi takes on New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s new book The World is Flat"The usual ratio of Friedman criticism is 2:1, i.e., two human words to make sense of each single word of Friedmanese. Friedman is such a genius of literary incompetence that even his most innocent passages invite feature-length essays. I'll give [...]
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The Case Against Value Stream Mapping « Systems Thinking, Lean and KanbanProcess mapping and double-loop learning. (lean process management systemsthinking double_loop_learning ) Artisanal Pencil Sharpening"REACQUAINT YOURSELF WITH THE PLEASURES OF A HAND-SHARPENED PENCIL. In New York's Hudson River Valley, craftsman David Rees still practices the age-old art of manual pencil sharpening. His artisanal service is [...]
Long Live the Web: Scientific American"Several principles are key to assuring that the Web becomes ever more valuable. The primary design principle underlying the Web’s usefulness and growth is universality. When you make a link, you can link to anything. That means people must be able to put anything on the Web, no matter what [...]
Muphry’s law, ‘issue issues issue issues’, and other problems | Mind your language | Media | guardian.co.ukNever heard of Muphry's law before. (writing books guardian ) CHART OF THE DAY: Facebook’s Crummy Ad Rates"Facebook might be serving up more display ads than anyone else, but it's getting a pretty crummy rate for all of those [...]
The Tina Brown Turnaround | The New York ObserverThe story (apparently) behind the Newsweek.com/Daily Beast merger. But why can't Tina Brown look up Bhutan on the web? (newsweek daily_beast tina_brown media ) Why You Should Stop Using CAPTCHAs | Tips"CAPTCHAs are widespread, but are they actually damaging the usability of your website? I would argue [...]
Social Startup, Syllabus"Co-learning space for Columbia Business School course Social Media and Entrepreneurship, taught by Rachel Sterne." This looks like an awesome course. (social_media entrepreneurship business education ) Facebook Confirms Bug Disabled User Accounts, Fix In Progress"Facebook has confirmed that a bug found early today in its system is responsible for automatically disabling a number [...]
