Some of the most exciting work taking place in The New York Times
building is being done on the 28th floor, in the paper’s Research and
Development Lab. The group serves essentially as a skunkworks project
for a news institution that stands to benefit, financially and
otherwise, from creative thinking; as Michael Zimbalist, the Times’
vice president of R&D, puts it, the team is “investigating the ideas
at the edges of today and thinking about how they’re going to impact
business decisions tomorrow.” For the past several months, the R&D Lab
has been working, quietly, on a time-based representation of how the
Times’ news content is being shared in Twitter’s social space. http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/04/the-new-york-times-rd-lab-has-built-a-tool-t...
building is being done on the 28th floor, in the paper’s Research and
Development Lab. The group serves essentially as a skunkworks project
for a news institution that stands to benefit, financially and
otherwise, from creative thinking; as Michael Zimbalist, the Times’
vice president of R&D, puts it, the team is “investigating the ideas
at the edges of today and thinking about how they’re going to impact
business decisions tomorrow.” For the past several months, the R&D Lab
has been working, quietly, on a time-based representation of how the
Times’ news content is being shared in Twitter’s social space. http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/04/the-new-york-times-rd-lab-has-built-a-tool-t...
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