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Jon recommended an article : Stressing the Web, ‘NewsHour’ Begins an Overhaul

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:44:15 -0500

ARLINGTON, Va. — Until recently, the employees who worked on the Web site of “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer” on PBS were based in a building a brisk five-minute walk through city traffic from their…

Jon recommended a blog post : The Frugal Traveler’s Holiday Gift Guide

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:42:10 -0500

As you may have gathered from my souvenir-hunting post last week, the Frugal Traveler is somewhat reluctant to buy, well, things. It’s not stinginess on my part — it’s that I dislike spending money…

Jon posted to Twitter an article : A Friend’s Tweet Could Be an Ad

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:41:10 -0500

Jon posted to Twitter an article : A Friend’s Tweet Could Be an Ad:

from nyt: A Friend’s Tweet Could Be an Ad - http://bit.ly/4UGi1I (yeah, ‘queasy’ is one reaction. sigh.)

Jon recommended an article : 101 Head Starts on the Day

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:41:10 -0500

Clockwise from top left: carrots, green beans and daikon (No. 70); acorn squash with apple and bacon (45); corn and tomatoes with chili (11); polenta cakes with cranberries (27).

Jon recommended an article : New Consensus Sees Stimulus Package as Worthy Step

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:41:09 -0500

WASHINGTON — Now that unemployment has topped 10 percent, some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion stimulus package President Obama signed into law…

Jon recommended an article : Legislative Pileup Looms in the Senate

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:41:09 -0500

WASHINGTON — When Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic leader, heard a few weeks ago that the House took less than an hour to approve an unemployment bill that had languished for a month in the Senate,…

Jon recommended an article : In Chicago, Ex-Editor Fights Back

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:41:08 -0500

David Greising, the deputy editor of the upstart Chicago News Cooperative, and Sharene Shariatzadeh, the business development director, hung the company’s sign as the editor, James E. O’Shea, right,…

Jon recommended a blog post : Plowing Detroit Into Farmland

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:49:27 -0500

Today’s idea: Detroit’s “massive failure” makes possible a radical transformation of the blighted city, an article says, including shrinking it down to its urban core and turning much of the place…

Jon recommended an article : What Your Phone Might Do for You Two Years From Now

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:10:34 -0500

By now we can probably all agree that the iPhone is the Model T, the Sputnik, the Lawrence Taylor of the mobile technology realm. We are still waiting for the offenses to adapt, the competition to…

Jon recommended an interactive graphic : Behind the Jobless Rate

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:10:34 -0500

The unemployment rate reached 10 percent for the first time in 27 years on Friday.

Jon recommended an article : Grand Plans for Rail in Denver Hit a Wall of Fiscal Realities

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:10:34 -0500

Voters in 2004 approved a $4.7 billion, 122-mile rail project; costs are now expected to be $7 billion. Most of the lines are still on the drawing board.

Jon recommended an article : A Place to Put Your Apps

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:37:13 -0500

Last week, I reviewed not one, but three new phones. You’d think that would be enough for a while, but fall is peak season for new mobile devices, and another major release — Motorola’s Droid — is…

"As Daniel Pink, the author of “A Whole New Mind,” puts it: In a world in which more and more average..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:43:49 -0400

“As Daniel Pink, the author of “A Whole New Mind,” puts it: In a world in which more and more average work can be done by a computer, robot or talented foreigner faster, cheaper “and just as well,” vanilla doesn’t cut it anymore. It’s all about what chocolate sauce, whipped cream and cherry you can put on top. So our schools have a doubly hard task now — not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.”

- Thomas Friedman - The New Untouchables

Jon recommended an article : Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:24:49 -0400

Twitter is “smart enough, or lucky enough” to let its users create new features for it, says an M.I.T. professor.

Jon recommended an article : To Cut Global Warming, Swedes Study Their Plates

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:02:13 -0400

STOCKHOLM — Shopping for oatmeal, Helena Bergstrom, 37, admitted that she was flummoxed by the label on the blue box reading, “Climate declared: .87 kg CO2 per kg of product.”

Jon recommended an article : Nudging Recycling From Less Waste to None

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:28:23 -0400

Sara Marshall peers into a drop-off point for recycling in Nantucket. The town is a leader in “zero waste.”More Photos >

Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:44:04 -0400

Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter:

Wired takes a look at the company behind the messaging service

Jon recommended an article : Talk to The Times: Deputy Technology Editor David Gallagher

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:03:17 -0400

David F. Gallagher, a deputy technology editor at The Times, is answering selected questions from readers Sept. 28-Oct. 2, 2009. Questions may be e-mailed to askthetimes@nytimes.com. Mr. Gallagher is…

Type Online, where we're at

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:01:20 -0400

Type Online, where we're at:

Nice overview of how fonts over the web could be handled.

Jon recommended an article : Choosing Wisely by Consulting the Sommelier in Your Pocket

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:42:53 -0400

Shopping for wine is a lot like parenting a teenager. You feel stupid when you’re in the middle of it, and when you finally emerge, you’re desperately ready for a drink.