Bjorn Tipling

If you haven’t tried it, The New York Time’s Blogrunner is pretty fricken sweet. I don’t know too much about it, it seems to be sort of generated sort of editorialized. It’s basically like Techmeme (which is also awesome) but more categories and more content. Techmeme is completely algorithm based I believe. Sometimes I think The New York Times is one of the very very few old media types that “get’s it.” They removed TimesSelect, they’ve started some very excellent blogs like bits (I wish David Pogue was a blog and not a column, but alas someone out there is still reading a paper). Now they need to get rid of that stupid registration requirement. Los Angeles Times recently had a redesign that I think is pretty wonderful. These newspapers are finally realizing what we knew about 5 years ago: they’re in for the fight of their lives. I hope NYT, the WSJ, and some other top notch publications survive. I love blogs, I do, but sometimes that rational tone and professional editorialized content retains some of that authority and integrity that’s hard to come by (and also easy to lose).