Vantage Point: Time for a twist in an oft-told tale
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NEW YORK The other day I made a semifacetious suggestion that one of these years the Red Sox really ought to win a World Series, just to stop all this agonizing and theorizing by fans and the media.
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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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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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LOS ANGELES  - The gorgeously rendered adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel "Atonement" -- and one shot in particular -- is generating attention.
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By LYNN ELBER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  Sometimes a TV series needs a tuneup. Tweak the plots, juice the promotion, and it may end up a challenger in the ratings race.
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Could these events signal a new trend in journalism?
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The story of the long tracking shot would be best told in one take.
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Battling fires and rescuing people, though fascinating to behold, doesn&#39;t necessarily make for compelling drama. The challenge is telling a story that&#39;s true to the episodic nature of firefighting, yet not
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Blue-eyed rumors and speculation can hold insights, too.
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A few notes on the NY Times outline... 1. I switched it back to the frequency sort, having tried it as an alphabetized list for about 18 hours. Now I want to see what happens with it flipped around so the most frequent keyword bins appear first. 2. Not sure, but I think it will empty out later this afternoon, as yesterday's stories expire, and before tomorrow's stories ship.  3. It seems that at least some people have bookmarked the site and are refreshing it. If so, I'm glad -- because that's the way these pages are most useful, they tell you something about what changed. Remember this is "news" not olds. 4. The outline view is something like TechMeme for the Times news flow. Not exactly because the keywords are assigned by people. Unseen news mavens. Where do they reside? Are they on the upper floors or in the basement of the NY Times skyscraper on 8th Ave, or somewhere inbetween? Maybe they work out of their homes. My mind wants to visualize these people, but I have nothing to cling to. It's not an algorithm that's determining where things sort out, it's people. Otherwise known as editors? Or are they librarians? 5. Do you bookmark the outline or the river? I'm a river guy for sure. I wonder about other people. 6. Francine Hardway twitted at me: "Times River is awesome on my iPhone! Was reading it while waiting for eye surgery and it was very distracting." Amen. That's the big secret. I wish there were a way to get everyone to look at the river on their cell phone. Eyes would open. 7. Thinking about integrating the two views, cross-relating them. Not sure exactly what I'll try first. That's why I wanted to let it settle in for a bit before moving in a other directions. 8. Of course, I know that if this ever becomes a "real" product, the user is going to control the view he or she wants to be the default. But for right now I'm experimenting. I want to see what people think. Enough people were asking for an alpha view that I wanted to see what would happen when I gave it to them, and if anyone would scream. Screaming isn't a bad thing, it's data.
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Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants.
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Our perception of time is all too variable, and there are many factors that can strangely and dramatically affect it, breaking the thread of continuity.
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About this time last year, I wrote a column following up on some pieces I'd written earlier to see what if anything new had happened to those topics. The reaction I heard afterwards convinced me that revisiting old news was a worthwhile exercise -- in general, it's too easy for tech reporters to lose sight of how a product works over time in the real world, as opposed to a brief trial in a reviewer's hands.
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Arts & entertainment: Movie-makers used to wait until news stories were over before moving in. Not now, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Rewrite the book and rule the pages -- take a souvenir.
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Vaulting ambitions Quocirca's changing channels Every so often the mainstream press gets its teeth into a story and canât let go. In the second half of 2007 and continuing into 2008 the UK press started to uncover a series of stories about data losses. There is always a degree of opportunism and scaremongering with news runs; a chance to bash a new government, an appeal to a readerâs sense of insecurity and so on. So does a more rational look allow the wood to be seen through the trees?â¦
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Long gone are the days when a film held on to one story and fleshed it out through the