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Blogs and Web logs

John Naughton, on the dif­fer­ence between writ­ing for Web and writ­ing for print: The other dif­fer­ence between writ­ing for print and writ­ing for one’s blog is that there comes a moment with the print essay when it has to be ‘fin­ished’ and dis­patched to the sub-editors: there’s an ‘end-point’, in other words. But, in a [...]
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Opportunity costs

A new arti­cle on CNN today sheds light on a phe­nom­e­non that’s been around for a few years now: TiVo Guilt. People pro­gram their DVRs to record entire sea­sons of tele­vi­sion shows or shows they they believe they should watch, like Sunday morn­ing news pro­grams. Eventually, they wind up with a DVR full of unwatched [...]
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