Monthly Archives: March 2006

What’s happened to the New York Times’s RSS feeds? Up until a day or two ago, they were generally excellent, providing the full text and all images for blogs like those from Bruni, Carr and now Asimov. Actually, Carr’s now-discontinued … Continue reading →

The cache function on my web browser has failed me, and now when I try to view this page, all I get is a 404 error. Worse, Google seems to have failed to cache it as well. So comes the … Continue reading →

Did you know that an Australian film star, who was in all three Lord of the Rings films as well as loads of critically-acclaimed features, is starring in Hedda Gabler at BAM? Well yes, we all know that Cate Blanchett … Continue reading →

Nick Denton is very excited about his latest franchise, Gawker Stalker Maps. I’ve never been a fan of Gawker Stalker: the feature has always seemed to me to be little more than a cheap way of getting readers to interact … Continue reading →

When I gave up my cable TV, the only thing I really missed was The Daily Show. So I was very happy indeed when I found it available on iTunes. I bought a pass, $9.99 for 16 episodes, and successfully … Continue reading →

Comment is free has launched. It looks handsome, but. At its heart, it’s an aggregation of Guardian columnists, and of course if you’re a newspaper columnist you don’t write with hyperlinks. So there’s precious little of the link-juice that really … Continue reading →

Most people who love places like the East Village, the West Village, or the Lower East Side love them for basically the same reason. They’re real neighborhoods: each one has a unique culture, a feeling you get when you walk … Continue reading →

After I posted my entry about the willingness of WIN bloggers to correct their errors, the WIN machine moved into action. First Jason Calacanis left a comment on my blog, saying that he was looking into it. He also said … Continue reading →

How often does the New York Times publish email addresses or mobile phone numbers for people in the news, let alone people important enough to merit their own story on the front page? Well, it’s done it today. But maybe … Continue reading →

I’m a fan of Tyler Cowen, at Marginal Revolution: one of the better and more entertaining blogging economists. I’m not such a fan of his co-blogger, Alex Tabarrok, however. His entry on Ethiopian drought insurance, for instance, refused to even … Continue reading →

Josephine Jansen’s Snack Dragon Taco Shack, on 3rd and B, is the place to go for high-end low-price tacos when you’re out drinking in the East Village. The best tacos you’ve ever had in NYC are all freshly made, and … Continue reading →

UPDATE: The WIN blog entry in question has now been greatly altered, in a rather disturbing manner. Details here. If you’re blogging professionally, people are going to hold you to higher standards than if you’re just another guy in his … Continue reading →

You heard it here first: Next year, the film studios jostling for recognition at the Academy Awards are going to move a small part of their publicity budgets online. Not to advertising, mind, but to bet on themselves. For the … Continue reading →

The good folks at Curbed linked to my entry on Manhattan valuations yesterday; they also posted that entry to the real estate section of VillageVoice.com, as part of their syndication deal with that website. Syndications should be a win-win deal: … Continue reading →

Tabloids use simpler language than broadsheets, because they aspire to appeal to a broader audience. So why is it that when I run up against a completely unknown word or expression, it always seems to be in the New York … Continue reading →

Frank Bruni reports today that EU is on! The E.U., a restaurant in the East Village, was mentioned in those same previews. It too hasn’t opened. One of its owners, Bob Giraldi, told me yesterday that it would be unveiled … Continue reading →

Two European countries. Country A is the recipient of tens of billions of dollars in foreign direct investment – $90 billion in 2005, to be precise. Country B, well, isn’t. Every time someone wants to throw money at the country, … Continue reading →

This is one of those stories which raise more questions than they answer: an innovative approach to aid in Africa. The World Food Program, a United Nations agency, spent $930,000 on an insurance policy with French insurer AXA Re. If … Continue reading →

I only just noticed that Gawker Media finally has a website. I’m very late to this game: Scott Kidder linked to it back in October, and I have no idea how long it was up before then. It already needs … Continue reading →

I’ve been staring for far too long at the map on the left, which can be seen in much bigger format here. It’s a map of the tax assessment value of the land in Manhattan, with the darker areas being … Continue reading →

Jonathan Rauch wrote the most popular essay The Atlantic has ever run, at least judging by web traffic. Three years later, he revisits its themes in an interview, talking about the problems that introverts have with extroverts. I was particularly … Continue reading →

I almost fell asleep reading DealBook’s extracts from the Greenspan book proposal: The book will ultimately conclude that the longer-term outlook for the global economy and, for that matter the U.S. economy as well, will be significantly affected by the … Continue reading →

One of the key questions in the DealBook vs Dealbreaker debate is whether the New York Times will link to bloggy rumours or not. If Elizabeth Spiers wants link love from the NYT, my general feeling was that she would … Continue reading →

DealBook is linking to blogs, which is a good thing. But someone at the NYT should probably be reading them more critically, I think. The NYT’s headline is now "UPDATE: Is NBC Stealing iVillage at $600 Million?", based on a … Continue reading →

Elizabeth Spiers can’t be happy this morning. The New York Times has just launched DealBook, a business-news blog which seems to do everything one might want a business blog to do, except maybe snark. It’s very good at pointing to … Continue reading →