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Wow I'm really surprised. I skip nytimes.com articles out of habit (sick of old-world journalist link bait). I had no idea that there were cool blog(s) hosted on the nytimes.com domain. I really wish the (domain) included subdomain.

Anyway, this is awesome. I wish Jefferson were alive today.

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The look is pretty good. I find that the handmade-aesthetic-webpage is hard to get right.

You'd be surprised. NYtimes actually has a pretty forward looking IT dept. They've even released an API

http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/article_search_api?authChe...

Awesome. I guess I've been biased by a lot of the stories I've read where the writing is of poorer quality and less relevance than blogs I read. I think the problem is that there were too many linkbait postings (i.e. what I saw as irrelevant to here, or sensationalised) from nytimes.com and so I flipped the bozo switch on that domain.

Yeah I've always been impressed with the quality of the site design at NYT. I suppose they decided it might have something to do with their future at one point.

>I really wish the (domain) included subdomain.

Put in a feature request with pg.

How about it pg: would you accept a patch that showed the subdomain when the domain is nytimes.com?

Old-world journalist link bait?

People who tend to write because they have to rather than because they want to. Each week it seems they have to put out x words and this somehow hurts the quality. I've found they tend to talk about internet/new technology from an outside point of view (heavy use of jargon to try and fit in, quick to sensationalise the negative impact of anything new).

You have to be trolling...come on. You can't possibly believe what you just wrote.

Each week it seems they have to put out x words and this somehow hurts the quality. I've found they tend to talk about internet/new technology from an outside point of view (heavy use of jargon to try and fit in, quick to sensationalise the negative impact of anything new).

An ex girlfriend is a tech "journalist" for a new-world tech blog. What you've described is exactly how the new media outlets work.

Yeah fair enough. I don't like them either :-) It seems both are trying to fit in with a movement they don't understand. I find the kinds of reports we are talking about lack actual content/value.

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