When a Single Story Has a Thousand Sides
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âRenditionâ tries to be thoughtful and respectful of complexity while at the same time honoring the imperatives of commercial entertainment.
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Press '3' to read this story or hold for a hack
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While it's not always a  foolproof barometer, in most cases when you see six writing and  10 producing credits on a movie, you can anticipate a fair  amount of confusion about the story the film wants to tell.
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Some mistakes are not always mistakes.
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An article last Sunday about the author Armistead Maupin misstated the number of television mini-series based on his âTales of the Cityâ novels. There have been three, not two.
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They call it the Hundred Years' War. Not because it involves brutish medieval unpleasantries like the battle axe. It involves only the sharp edge of cutting words between a Washington area company and a New York investor in a war of Wall Street that merely feels like it has lasted a century.
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Her husbandsâ music is what made them unforgettable. But her side of the story, for all its slick packaging and hopeless platitudes, is worth hearing too.
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By Mario Perez, ABC. A plane crash. An uncharted island. A tiny band of frightened survivors. Out of these familiar adventure-story components and a host of pop-culture conventions
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Elmore Leonard once said that the key to telling an exciting story was leaving out the parts that people skip. âQuxiotic/Honor de Cavalleriaâ is composed of little else.
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Myths are manufactured, reputations reconstructed and exploits embellished as the years roll on, so that eventually you can sometimes never be quite sure how much fact and how much fiction make
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The current story-line is NOT autobiographical. Angela and I will be celebrating 12 years of marital bliss in Feb and are in no danger of divorce. If anything, the fact that I&#8217;ve never really been touched by divorce, even in my extended family, makes me wholly unqualified to write this arc. So I&#8217;m trudging through to [...]
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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Psychologists once conducted a simple experiment with far-reaching implications: They asked people to describe an instance in their lives when they had hurt someone and another instance when they had been hurt by someone else. The incidents that people described were similar whether they saw...
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Sometimes I write about topics that I find a little difficult to get my arms around.
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Sometimes, a thing looks too bad to be true.
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Frightening incidents often take place, especially when shooting at different locations. But one incident
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What's in a word? Maybe more than you think.