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| NYT: Gantt a problem for sensible transit solutions |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 5:21 pm |
| Tags: Asides, Buses |
| Remember when, last month, David Gantt singlehandedly squashed any effective BRT-lane enforcement measures? Of course you do. Well, so does The New York Times, and today, a full 36 days after Gantt’s back-room dealings, the newspaper of record decided to opine on the issue. In an editorial today, the Gray Lady says that Gantt must go. Well, |
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| Coming soon: More mid-level management |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 2:37 pm |
| Tags: Asides, New York City Transit |
| While the jury is still out, NYC Transit plans to expand their line manager program. Howard Roberts, head of NYCT, and Elliot “Lee” Sander, MTA chief, say that the line manager program will help, in the words of Pete Donohue, “reorganiz[e] and streamlin[e] the underground bureaucracy.” But critics note that the two current |
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| QlipMedia.com - Simple Presentations |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 11:23 am |
| Tags: User Gen Content |
| clip shows with comedic asides thrown in, or even collaborate on a homework assignment. The possibilities are many with this flexible app. You've got three basic tools to work with: a pencil, a highlighter and a text cursor. You can add narration while you're drawing over your slides or videos. Editing is done via drag and drop. There |
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| Cameron.io Gets a Face Lift |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 7:34 am |
| Tags: Asides |
| Cameron.io Gets a Face Lift - It’s gorgeous, bro. I’m provoked. |
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| The Process |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 9:53 pm |
| Tags: Asides |
| The Process - Good news: you’re not the only one. (via Keegan Jones) |
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| Pixels Of Color |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 3:24 pm |
| place for all of those asides I've scribbled in the hundreds of notebooks I have in my garage from the campaigns and stories I've covered over the years. Inside each of those notebooks are little pieces of color I've picked up along the way. Sometimes these snippets are too off-topic or too inconsequential to work into a story. Sometimes |
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| Reviving an old idea to fix new problems |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 12:47 pm |
| Tags: Asides |
| With train delays reaching record highs more on that in a bit the MTA is turning to an old idea to combat sluggish service. According to Marlene Naanes, the transit authority may resurrect skip-stop service to improve train speeds and ease overcrowding. The MTA started skip-stop service in 1989 when residents in areas served only by local |
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| NYTimes ScienceTimes: Mirrors and our brains, an off-label tactic against time, Ms mosquito, crowds in former wilderness labs, etc |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 11:53 am |
| Tags: Science Stories, Health Amp Medicine Stories, Environment Stories |
| thrilling usages, similes, asides, allusions, and rushing trains of thought tunneling through darkness, she makes anything interesting via sheer descriptive mastery. Her editor has to keep the leash tight, of course. This morning I thought I’d finally encountered something of hers that bores. Just to me, perhaps, and perhaps fascinating |
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| WordPress for iPhone |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 9:54 am |
| Tags: Asides |
| WordPress for iPhone - Introducing the first Open Source app that lets you write posts, upload photos, and edit your WordPress blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. With support for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.5.1 or higher), users of all experience levels can get going in seconds. |
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| Clarity is More Valuable Than Density' |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 9:47 am |
| Tags: Asides |
| ‘Clarity is More Valuable Than Density’ Great interview by Kyle Baxter with Brent Simmons on iPhone App development. |
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| They came, they stayed, they nested |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 6:57 am |
| Tags: Asides |
| It’s just been announced that a pair of Cattle Egrets have bred in Britain for the first time. There was a large influx of egrets from southern Europe this spring, and breeding has been anticipated for some years. A brief announcement is on the Somerset Ornithological Society website. Copyright 2008 - For more of the same, visit 10,000 |
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| Fare increases on tap for 2009 |
| Published: July 21, 2008, 10:13 pm |
| Tags: Asides, Fare Hikes |
| Here’s the breaking news: The MTA will seek what The Times is calling substantial fare hikes in 2009. This will be just the second time in history that the MTA will seek to raise the fares in consecutive years. More on this breaking and dismaying news later. ©2008 Second Ave. Sagas A New York City Subway Blog. All Rights |
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| Patterson won’t dump Sander |
| Published: July 21, 2008, 2:35 pm |
| Tags: Asides |
| While Gov. David Patterson has replaced many of Eliot Spitzer’s political appointees including the head of the Port Authority New York’s newest gov has no plans to replace MTA chief Elliot Sander. For MTA watchers, this should come as good news. Despite presiding over a period of extreme economic uncertainty, Sander has done an |
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| Just how important is Alaska for birds? |
| Published: July 21, 2008, 8:14 am |
| Tags: Asides |
| Very important according to BirdLife International and Audubon Alaska (who both know about these things). The latter has just released a map of the State’s Important Bird Areas (IBAs), and it’ll be cold comfort for those in the White House still looking to drill Alaska into tiny pieces. Details are on the |
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| Book Review: Two Economic Squeeze Books |
| Published: July 20, 2008, 8:01 pm |
| Tags: Book Review, Steven Greenhouse, Jared Bernstein |
| sometimes found the jocular asides and humorous tangents a bit overdone) and organized to provide the reader with concise talking points on the issues. Where Bernstein seeks to explain the economy, with an eye to its macro-level organization and the immediate effects of that upon individuals, Steven Greenhouse's The Big Squeeze is descriptive, |
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