FYI
http://neoformix.com/2010/TopVizDiscussedOnTwitter2.html
*More Visualization Links on Twitter* *By: Jeff ClarkDate: Sat, 23 Jan
2010*
* In a recent post I showed the Top 20 Individual Data Visualizations
Mentioned on Twitterhttp://neoformix.com/2010/TopVizDiscussedOnTwitter.htmland
Twitter centric twitters. Someone who studies tweets and reports their
results in the same form.
At the recommendation of a New York Times blogger,
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/adding-controlled-serendipity-to-the-web,
I have begun following @atul and @brainpicker on twitter, thus
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704509704575019032416477138.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories
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FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures,
Fascinating.
*Oddly, the Bizarro World of quant trading largely masked the losses to the
outside world at first. Since the stocks they'd shorted were rising rapidly,
leading to the appearance of gains on the broader market, that balanced out
the diving stocks the quants had expected to rise.
I've been trying to make the case for 15+ yrs that the ink-on-paper
newspaper would become largely a tip sheet to the full and rich stories
posted on the web.
Lately, I've been using http://www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer/
-tj
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote:
The TimesSkimmer is a wonderful page! I've been going to nytimes.com for a
long time. I also get their daily email. But I never heard of the Skimmer. I
can't even find a link to it from their main page. How did you hear about
it? Is there a direct link, or do you have to put in the URL?
-- Russ
If you go to the NYT homepage -- http://www.nytimes.com/ - look at the 3rd
row from from the top and right below the link to Last Update: 8:52 PM ET
There you will see the link to Skimmer
-tj
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Russ Abbott russ.abb...@gmail.com wrote:
The TimesSkimmer is a
Thanks. Interestingly I had my NYTimes preferences set to Global edition.
(It can be selected at the top of the sections on the far left.) The Global
edition doesn't link to the Skimmer. I wonder why.
-- Russ
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote:
If you go to
