NYT

  • My Times > New RSS Reader from the New York Times

    Today I got an email from the NYT about their new web-based service, My Times: a new way to personalize NYTimes.com. My Times lets you create a customized page gathering your favorite information from The New York Times and elsewhere on the Web, with guidance (if you want it) from Times reporters and editors. So…

  • The Nipple of Zidane

    Like most sane people, I don’t really care about soccer. The World Cup has been pretty interesting to follow, though, in a "what-happened-today" kind of way, not a "holy crap what time’s the game on" kind of way. Yahoo!, as usual, is using technology to do cool things and drive the interest of humans. Their…

  • Meta-Anonymity: Articles from the NYT re: Anonymity Policy

    Here’s a general post to hold all articles in the NYT about their anonymity policy. THE PUBLIC EDITOR Briefers and Leakers and the Newspapers Who Enable Them By DANIEL OKRENT Published: May 8, 2005 The Public EditorSecrecy, Security, the President and the PressBy BYRON CALAMEPublished: July 2, 2006 BUSINESS/FINANCIAL DESKPanel at The Times Proposes Steps…

  • Because Clauses To Date

    Here’s what I’ve got to date on the NYT Anonymity Project. I am working my way through the archive, back to May 15, 2005, which is the date that the new anonymity policy was put into place. That means this list is not in date order. ( * = "because"): * Congress had not yet…

  • More on the NYT Anonymity Project

    So I have been dutifully collecting my "because clauses"– the reasons why sources have been given anonymity in the New York Times. It’s been a fun project because it is a good expression of the kind of art I have been interested in making over the last few years– derivative works art— art that uses…