Broadway Web Sites: Now for Fans as Well as Fanatics
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Several new Broadway-related Web sites have arrived with the potential and purpose of bridging the gap between the obsessed and the genuinely interested.
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Carrie A. Moore's article (May 19) discussing Postmormon.org painted a warm and fuzzy picture of the Web site and its contents. So, I decided to look into the site myself.
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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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Broadway inspires a morbid fascination. Ever since vaudeville went respectable, a century or so ago, everyone from social critics and city planners to choreographers and doormen has predicted the imminent
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A complete list of winners for the 2007 Tony Awards, with links to the original New York Times reviews.
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A new Web site, Thoof, is an attempt to improve on sites like Digg and Reddit, where users filter and rank links to articles and blog entries.
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'Everyone's a critic' takes on new meaning when Internet fan sites and blogs enter the mix.
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Why are there no fewer than 500 different Wiki implementations?  MoinMoin, Jot, JSPWiki, InterWiki, MediaWiki, SocialText, Twiki, Team Notepad, PhpWiki, WikiDoc, Project Forum, xWiki, AspWiki, SnipSnap, AsWiki, eGroupware Wiki, Hiki, MiniWiki, MyWiki, ParseWiki, PHP Groupware Wiki, Trac, Usemod Wiki, Wiliki, Zope zWiki... I'm sure I could go on...  Aren't most of these Open Source?  Can't some of these projects merge?  For god sake *stop it*!  The world doesn't need another wiki applications.  None of these are getting links because they don't deserve the PageRank.  Did I miss anyone?  If I did please add a comment.
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Performers are turning to video sites that share ad revenue or pay by number of viewers.
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While "American Idol" is busy culling the next Kelly Clarkson from the legions of warbling weirdoes, many Web sites also are sifting the great unwashed for musical talent.
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New site doses social networking with literate lists. Plus: Is
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Decision: Blogs vs. New York Times. For the last couple of weeks I've been emailing with people from the LongNow Foundation and Martin Nisenholtz of the NY Times, to determine who won the bet.  Ultimately we asked the foundation to consider all the argument and make the decision. They published their decision today. It's well worth reading because it answers some of the questions raised by the bet, for example, what is a blog, and how does Wikipedia relate to blogging. I don't agree with everything in the decision, but I do like the result -- we won.  The beneficiary of the bet? The World Wide Web Consortium. I chose them as the charity to receive the proceeds if I won the bet because web standards are what make it all work and the W3C is central to standards on the web.
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Over on the Rojo blog  Chris writes:  "Thanks very much to Steve Gillmor for alerting us to a bug in how we, and other aggregators, were parsing New York Times RSS feeds. In short, stories older than 7 days or so were linking to abstracts of the articles, not the full articles themselves. This is something we will fix. Steve speculated that perhaps the "Times doesn't want server-based aggregators such as Bloglines and Rojo to consistently allow permalink access beyond seven days." Fortunately we don't see any evidence of that and in fact believe NYT has done a great job in making their content available via RSS, particularly by including a specific "partner" parameter on the URL for RSS aggr ...
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Could this be an end to broken links? New software replaces and updates links on Web pages.
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Tycho:  It's been a couple weeks discussing reviews and reviewers around here, but somewhere along the way I neglected to mention that their job is essentially impossible.  The 7-9 scale they toil under is largely the result of an uneasy peace between the business and editorial wings of the venue.  No matter what score they give it, high or low, they're reviled equally by the online chorus.  Apparently, even when they do it right they're doing it wrong.
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A new site lets users create profiles for the different sides of their personality.
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There is an interesting post on OnLamp.com that mentions the search for a good wiki system. Read the post to find out why the author thinks that the wiki world "needs the kind of vision that will make the product more accessible, more polished, less prone to abandonment or neglect...", and the several comments that follow.