28 June 2012

News Corporation's Big Move: Murdoch Informs the Staff - NYTimes.com

News Corp. Said to Back Spinoff of Papers - NYTimes.com

After 3 Decades in France, Minitel’s Days Are Numbered - NYTimes.com

It's interesting to think of this as a  30 year old plan to replace print (the telephone directory) with something electronic (the minitel), and then think about where newspapers stand today in the face of the burgeoning digital world. 

24 April 2012

James Murdoch Testifies Before Judicial Panel - NYTimes.com

Why doesn't this story contain a "time" in addition to a day? How are we supposed to know when it was done?

22 January 2011

New York Times search

Why is the search engine on The New York Times website so bad? About 30% of the time, I simply cannot pull up something that I know for sure is there and know that it is online, but the search will not produce a link. That happened with two stories just today; saw them in passing on TimesWire, but then later when I tried to search for them, there was no sign of them. Finally found them on Google, but even there it was not on the first try, as it should be.