Daily Archives: Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Election night blogging

Posted on Tuesday, November 7, 2006 by Rex Hammock

NYTimes.com design director Khoi Vinh’s does some behind-the-scenes blogging about the design work on the website’s election coverage package. Later: Only late tonight did I come to appreciate the Tuftean clarity of the NYTimes.com’s informative graphics. For example, the “blue … Continue reading →

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Election prediction – Wisdom of crowds?

Posted on Tuesday, November 7, 2006 by Rex Hammock

Before the returns start coming in, I wanted to post the average of all predictions made by Hammock Publishing employees regarding the party split during the next session of congress. Average Prediction (All employees) Senate: 50-50 House: Republicans-213, Democrats-221 My … Continue reading →

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Mark Cuban on customer service

Posted on Tuesday, November 7, 2006 by Rex Hammock

A great quote: “In the internet age, one happy customer might make a note in their blog or forward an email. An unhappy customer, starts a blog, writes about how unhappy they are, takes out an ad on search engines … Continue reading →

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Magazines as muses

Posted on Tuesday, November 7, 2006 by Rex Hammock

It should come as no surprise to those who have heard me talk about magazines, I think this article in Advertising Age is really worth reading. Indeed, if you are in the magazine industry (rumor has it, I’m a magazine … Continue reading →

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Mr. Roboto blogs the CMA awards so I don’t have to

Posted on Tuesday, November 7, 2006 by Rex Hammock

As I’ve noted here ad nauseum, I love country music — just not the kind of commerical country music one hears on commerical radio or sees on big, national network telecasts. To me, that’s suburban music, not country music. Overly … Continue reading →

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Is this a Real Simple Answer to the question, ‘What is an RSS feed?’

Posted on Tuesday, November 7, 2006 by Rex Hammock

AP writer Seth Sutel tackles the question, What are online RSS feeds? Steve Rubel thinks its the best explanation he’s seen. It adheres to my recommendation for answering the question, “What is RSS?” by ignoring the technical answer and showing, … Continue reading →

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Juxtapositions in my RSS newsreader

Posted on Tuesday, November 7, 2006 by Rex Hammock

These two messages just floated by me on a river of news: Rex Sorgatz: “C’mon you people! Wasn’t John Goodman f***ing brilliant on Studio 60?” Dave Winer: “Is it just me or did Studio 60 totally suck last night?” Note: … Continue reading →

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The failure to manage expectations

Posted on Tuesday, November 7, 2006 by Rex Hammock

I’ve observed this mid-term election in much the same way I observe a major league baseball season: from afar, reading only the occasional box score, waiting until the playoffs to get too curious. And most similar: Being glad it’s over. … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-11-07

Posted on Tuesday, November 7, 2006 by Rex Hammock

Free Access to Times Select is ‘Sponsored’ This Week | FishbowlNY Today through November 12, David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, Friedman, Bob Herbert, Nicholas D. Kristof, Paul Krugman, Frank Rich and the rest of the Times op-ed crew are free to … Continue reading →

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