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2010 Predictions: NYT Trend Piece
There will be a NYT trend piece about people meeting and starting relationships during the last hour of international flights, when all gadgets are off and the passengers must remain seated. The article will run after there have been two resulting marriages and will center on a third engaged couple.
Traffic to the NYTimes.com on the day Michael Jackson died:
Just watching these maps glow can be a mesmerizing experience, but there’s another fascinating piece of data within this particular day. At about 1 minutes 10 seconds into the video, at 5:20 p.m., you can see a huge pulse of readers coming to the Web site, both from mobile devices and personal computers. This huge traffic bump happened after TMZ.com broke the news of Mr. Jackson’s death. As the news started to filter across the Internet, traffic continued to ebb and flow throughout the evening.
It’s also intriguing to see the heartbeat of reader visits throughout any particular day. You can see more mobile traffic in the mornings and afternoons, as readers commute to and from work, and a large pulse of readers coming to the site around lunchtime.
(Via NYTimes.com)
The New York Times has a photo essay up on Dubai. Quotes like this make us seem downright prudent:
The building boom has claimed some houses that are three to five years old. They are being demolished to make way for a new project.
And:
A convoy of sewage trucks removes waste from the city center. The current sewer system cannot handle the demand.
(Via NY Times)
Shortly after 9 a.m. on Sunday, Mr. Seiler and about a dozen other participants met in his Chelsea studio, where they went over lists of targets: 114 street-level billboards that Mr. Seiler said were operated by companies that he believed were putting up ads without proper permission from the city. A spokeswoman for the City Department of Buildings, Ryan Fitzgibbon, said on Sunday that it was difficult to immediately address Mr. Seiler’s claims. “If outdoor advertisement is allowed, a permit from D.O.B. must be obtained in order to post an advertisement or a sign,” she said. “Advertisements are not allowed on construction fences.” It is no secret, however, that such advertisements abound, and on Sunday morning Mr. Seiler pointed to a construction fence near his studio that was covered with dozens of pasted posters. “We’re bombarded by ads every day,” he said. “Advertising frames the public environment as being for sale but public space is not inherently commercial.” At 10:30, Mr. Seiler and his confederates broke up into pairs, bringing along five-gallon buckets of white paint and long-handled rollers to use to spread the paint over ads.
(Via NYTimes.com)
Lucy Danziger, Self Editor, Trades Town Car for Handlebars
What a world we live in! When an editor of a fitness magazine, whose publisher is drastically cutting costs, foregoes a town car and rides her bike to work she gets a NY Times article!
Meanwhile, Graydon Carter still takes jets.
“ I’m hoping we can get the newsroom more actively involved in the challenge of delivering our best journalism in the form of Times Reader, iPhone apps, WAP, or the impending Apple slate…”
Did Bill Keller just out the Apple Slate? The fact that he said “slate” and not “tablet” gives this a bit of credence. (Via Gawker)
