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This is going to be a fairly short post, which is all out of proportion to the amount of time I've spent in this particular rabbit-hole.

Sometime last March I signed up for a year's worth of online access to The New York Times -- it was deeply discounted, and prevented a lot of annoying dead-ends when following links from their COVID-19 coverage, which is free. As I said, rabbit hole.

The Times has an ongoing series of articles with titles starting with "Five MinuteS That Will Make You Love X" where X is some sub-genre of classical music, the idea being that they ask various people to suggest their favorite short selection. All but the first two were published this year. The most recent one, which dropped me straight into the rabbit-hole this time, was 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven:

In the past, we’ve asked some of our favorite artists to choose the five minutes or so they would play to make their friends fall in love with In the past, we’ve asked some of our favorite artists to choose the five minutes or so they would play to make their friends fall in love with classical music, the piano, opera, the cello, Mozart, 21st-century composers, the violin, Baroque music, and sopranos.

Now we want to convince those curious friends to love the stormy, tender music of Beethoven, who was born 250 years ago this month.

As I said, it's all classical. But it might be fun to think of what you'd pick for X=Filk. (You can probably guess my pick.)

The full list to date (from the most recent): )

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Techdirt: What Does It Mean For The Christian Science Monitor To Go Web Only?
Early Tuesday, I saw the news that the venerable Christian Science Monitor newspaper was the first major mainstream daily newspaper to decide to shift away from print and focus mainly on the web. For the last few years there's been plenty of talk about how this day would come eventually, but it's still quite a surprise to see it actually happen. While I think it's the right move, I had expected most major newspapers to hang on until the bitter end. I didn't have a chance to write up a post on it immediately, so it gave me more of a chance to think through what this really means. The cost of producing, printing and distributing a physical newspaper each day is quite high. So, removing all of those costs is a big deal. The paper still is planning to do a print version weekly, which will function more as a weekly magazine, allowing the staff to dig deeper into various issues and provide a more complete summary reading for the week. Thus it will still need to do some printing and distribution, but at a vastly reduced rate and scale.

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