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Leeds Computer Repair — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:06:45 -0000

why cant they make it pdf instead of html? keep us informed

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portal development — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:09:14 -0000

I wish I had such a tool which could print out custom versions of newspapers. I am tired of keeping that huge sack in my garage. I hate to carry those huge folded papers daily to my office, being a journalist. Seems you had a great tour with all those innovative information you have come to know.

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portal development — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:09:14 -0000

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york computer repair in pa — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:33:30 -0000

The pdf option is okayh, it just takes forever for adobe to load. I know it has more features but it's a pain to wait each time. The prototype newstand looks pretty cool!

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REBECA REYES — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:49:36 -0000

Can you tell me how can I schedule a visit to the NYT facilities? We are planning a visit with students of communication. We live in Mexico. I also accept suggests.
Regards!!

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Bruno Mitchell — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:58:51 -0000

Great, more ways for the NY Times to get out their disgustingly biased editorial point of view.

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Jason Preston — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:15:35 -0000

The word newspaper is fast becoming an anachronism. What makes me sad is how few papers are really embracing the future of news, which I think means that all papers need to start doing two things immediately:

1. Create a good digital equivalent to "Subscription" in the online space, because loyal subscribers are FAR more valuable than the random Googler.

2. Make your content easily and readily available in any format you possibly can. Be on the Kindle. Be on Google Earth. Be on the blackberry. Be in special reader format on PCs and Macs and Tablets.

I see the NYT consistently trying to do these things when most companies are not, and that is why they are sitting on top of the world in online news.

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Phar — Fri, 23 May 2008 04:09:17 -0000

Instead of PDFs - why cant they make it HTML
PDFs take too long to load and the text quality is blurry….
Does anyone really like PDFs - they are a pain in the ass

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Brian — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:55:39 -0000

Scoble said: "Brian: did you watch the videos?"

To be honest, no I didn't. I frankly find them unwatchable based on your interviewing style. Nevertheless, I do find it ironic you pimping the NYT given your position on "old media".

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John McGrath — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:58:25 -0000

@Jahangir , some details of how the EC2 implementation was done were posted last November in open.nytimes.com. Very open about it.

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Tony' Photography Blog — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:21:26 -0000

I will watch the times site, and see how thry do with this

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Dario Salvelli — Thu, 22 May 2008 04:36:39 -0000

Time Machine is live here: http://timesmachine.nytimes...

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Kyle — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:49:53 -0000

A group of us met with some BD people from The New York Times back in February 2005 for a Kellogg School of Management Media Trek. NYT didn't understand the changes taking place around them then and it seems they're just beginning to turn the boat around (maybe). Not saying this will allow them to survive long term (80% of their revenue today is print so they have capital) but they need to start seeing this at a higher 40K level.......just because they use some of the latest Web tools doesn't keep them ahead of the new media curve. I'm a Northwestern Medill/marketing grad so I'm not looking at this with a $$ mindset rather something that allows them to capture an audience emotionally. What you do with Qik and what fastcompany.tv is doing would bring them to that place a lot faster. Everybody wants to be part of New York, no matter where you live. NYT just doesn't get that aspect with some of what they're doing. (if this makes sense)

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Robert Scoble — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:11:49 -0000

Brian: did you watch the videos? Did you see a newspaper being done anywhere? I didn't. Everything was on screen, on top of Google Maps, etc.

Newspapers are dead. The New York Times isn't a newspaper anymore in my mind.

Oh, you should have seen their video studio.

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Brian — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:07:26 -0000

I'm confused. I thought you were one of the crowd that was convinced newspapers are dead? Why spend the time at the NYT, then? Just for the name dropping aspect.

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Benny — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:05:48 -0000

I would definitely recommend reading the blog they have. They just published a post going into a bit of detail (maybe not enough for me :) about how they created the data for the Times Machine. Very cool use of Amazon EC2 and Hadoop etc.

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Prokofy — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:12:45 -0000

See, our dead-tree Gray Lady can still show her stuff, eh?! I read that leftwing blog at nytimes.com every night for free at 12:01 am when it refreshes, it has great stuff these days, including the podcasts and blogs.

And the very BEST thing about it is that you can now write in the comments and nearly instantly publish if you are registered, instead of writing a 250-word Letter to the Editor and waiting for days for them to get back to you if they will use it. They actually still have the Letters page though and it is still important. Even though you can see the Times online, I still buy it some days just because it's nice to hold something flexible besides a mouse in your hand or lie on the couch with.

Every time I go by or into that Times building, I wonder if they are actually done building it -- it seems unfinished and weird. The old building was more classic and had all kinds of old architectural features. I remember back in the 1970s, you could still hear the typewriter carriage bells dinging and cries of "copy". Then it got very, very silent later in the late 90s with rows of computer terminals. There were some columnists that still wrote out stories in long- hand on yellow legal pads and called them in over the phone in the 2000s.

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Derek — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:18:49 -0000

The TimesMachine is available at http://timesmachine.nytimes...

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Christopher Coulter — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:09:55 -0000

Translation: Blah blah blah, I am so cool, I got an insider look at an famous dead tree paper, mind you, I don't actually read newspapers, everything is ONLINE, I mean, RSS, Blogs, Twitter, like, who has time for newspapers? But well, they are doing COOL stuff, I got to see it all, you didn't, you aren't that important, you know. But thank your lucky stars that I am here to bring it all to you. Blah blah blah. God loves me more, but I give back to the little people, check out all this advertorial self-serving stuff, from my shaky out-of-focus cell cam. I almost got a journalism degree, you know. And the NYT geeks blog and pay attention to me, they get it. I mean, what's the point of a universe without me at the center? Blah blah blah.

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Crider — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:15:48 -0000

Love to see a mainstream media org making these kinds of moves.

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Dario Salvelli — Wed, 21 May 2008 07:23:02 -0000

Time Machine is a great (free?) feature but is in private beta? There is any link?

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raincoaster — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:31:53 -0000

I'm skeptical of their intent to implement this stuff. After all, aren't their blogs both UNPAID (to the writers) and WP.com technology rather than proprietary?

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Jahangir — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:06:33 -0000

Scoble, do you have any technical details on how they used the Amazon services for their Time Machine?? Or is that "closed" source ?

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Steve — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:30:50 -0000

Any pictures of Jayson Blair along that wall of fame?

The New York Times? Really?. What's next? A trip to Florida to visit the National Inquirer?

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Robert Scoble — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:38:41 -0000

SearchEngines: because PDFs let you do features than HTML doesn't let you do. HTML can't render the pages as they originally were.

Ben: thanks for fact checking that. Yeah, you were right. I don't know why I was thinking old instead of gray. My mind is going...