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Mark on August 14th, 2008

How come the Vancouver Sun’s Olympic pages look so much better than the rest of the newspaper’s website?
(Although it is a little odd that the main feature box is titled “Photo of the Moment” and features four photos.)
Are we seeing a preview of what the Sun is working toward?
UPDATE: Ah! As John Lehmann points out [...]

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Mark on August 7th, 2008

Note: Updates are being added at the bottom of this post.
There was a bit of end-of-the-day excitement in the mediasphere, kicked off by a memo to Philly Inquirer staff that appears to tell them to put down the mice and back slowly away from the web.
One of the first reactions I read was from Jeff [...]

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Mark on May 4th, 2008

DesiFest, a 10-hour celebration of south Asian music and dance, was held yesterday in Vancouver’s Gastown. I know The Vancouver Sun covered it: I saw their photog tramping around the stage, shooting.
Last night, at 10 p.m., the Sun RSS feed pointed to a gallery of photos, but when I clicked the link just now [...]

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