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New York Times Wants to Be the Pandora of News

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The New York Times is beginning to roll out an experimental new approach to personalized news that the Poynter Institute compares to Pandora’s approach to suggesting music based on what users say they like. The paper is trying to provide a more social news experience that includes not only personalization but also a reader reputation system and new approach to commenting. So far, most of the new additions have been happening behind the scenes—rethinking how to do recommendations and tweaking algorithms. When the toolbar for TimesPeople, a simple social network launched in 2008, disappeared this week, Poynter’s Jeff Sonderman suspected something biggest was in store and reached out to chief technology officer Marc Frons who explained some upcoming features.

» via The Atlantic

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Posted 1 year ago
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YMCA Loses Three Letters “Organizations ranging from KFC to NPR to AARP have recently decided to make the common abbreviations for their companies into their formal names. And now the YMCA has joined the club, shortening its official name to “The Y.” The organization’s senior vice-president and CMO explained that “when you call yourself what everyone else calls you,” it’s a way “of being warmer, more genuine, more welcoming.” Hmmm, there are a fewcompanies we can think of who might not want to follow that advice”. Source: NYT

YMCA Loses Three Letters

“Organizations ranging from KFC to NPR to AARP have recently decided to make the common abbreviations for their companies into their formal names. And now the YMCA has joined the club, shortening its official name to “The Y.” The organization’s senior vice-president and CMO explained that “when you call yourself what everyone else calls you,” it’s a way “of being warmer, more genuine, more welcoming.” Hmmm, there are a fewcompanies we can think of who might not want to follow that advice”.

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Posted 1 year ago
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Lounge Chair and Ottoman, by Charles & Ray Eames, 1956. “Heroes and Villains in the Pantheon of Design” by Alice Rawsthorn, NY Times Zoom Image

Lounge Chair and Ottoman, by Charles & Ray Eames, 1956.

“Heroes and Villains in the Pantheon of Design” by Alice Rawsthorn, NY Times

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Posted 2 years ago
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With the bilingual edition of T, we are able to reach new segments of readers within the Middle East, bringing the magazine’s global perspective on style to Qatar’s burgeoning fashion and design community.

Gloria Brown Anderson, vice president of international editorial development, The New York Times News Services

Source: T Qatar: The New York Times style magazine launched, AMEInfo.com

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Posted 2 years ago
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“Typeface Designers Wrestle With the World of Pixels” by Alice Rawsthorn

Article: “Typeface Designers Wrestle With the World of Pixels”
by Alice Rawsthorn, IHT/New York Times

“NEW YORK — Imagine that you are a super-successful movie director, who’s been given hundreds of millions of dollars and lots of whiz-bang technology to make a cinematic epic. Sounds good? Not once you are told that people will have to watch it on fuzzy old black and white television sets.

Something similar happens to the text that appears on your computer screen whenever you log on to a Web site. The site’s owner has so little control over the fine details of what you will see that the typeface in which the text appears is bound to be distorted. Pity the poor designer who struggled to perfect it.”

“…take a look at Georgia, the typeface on the IHT/New York Times Web site, on a Mac, then see how different it looks on a PC.”

The Ideal Sans typeface is used at the Art Institute of Chicago, commissioned
from Hoefler & Frere-Jones.


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