December 2008
“American Ecology Corp., has ferried hazardous materials from U.S. military bases...”
– Top 10 Underreported News Stories - TIME
NYTimes.com Needs 7X More Traffic To Survive (NYT) →
If the current ad rates continue and the New York Times can’t figure out another way of making money… we’re screwed. If the biggest paper in the country can’t figure out a business model, the chances…
Who, what, when, where and why is J-school so big?... →
The good news: there are plenty of journalism students still.
The bad news: a lot are going on to law school or PR or advertising.
Shrink the Web (2.0) | byJoeyBaker →
Small social networks have never worked very well, with the F* Connect convergence, we’re going to see their relevance grow.
Fed ushers in a new era and cuts key interest to... →
The Federal Reserve threw up its hands and officially “exhausted its most fundamental tool for managing the economy,”
Engage Blog Archive Obama Spent Less than 50% on... →
The Obama campaign put more money into paying people to campaign than on 30-sec TV commercials. It worked, imagine that.
MediaNews Sees Bad Timing on Newspapers, Not Bad... →
“I don’t see any other large newspaper company in danger of following Tribune,” which was much more leveraged than its peers, Mr. Singleton said.
10 Items Your Geek Friends Don't Want for... →
I completely agree with all but #10.
"Even Obama can't"
Mackenzie Reiss: yeaaaa i read sometihng about big papers in detroit cutting down their delivery days....call me old fashioned
but i like reading an actual tanglible paper with my coffee in
the morning!
Joey Baker: heh… yea, that's not gonna happen much longer
it's an economic thing
there's just no way for them to keep printing
newspapers are dead/dying
Mackenzie Reiss: i know~! its so depressing. even obama cant save the newspapers.....
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 * Keyboard shortcuts →
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Audio slideshow: Army... →
David Cotterrell has a pretty good audio slideshow on the main medic base in Afghanistan.
“We live in more of a pussy generation now,”
—Clint Eastwood”
– Clint Calls Us ‘Generation Pussy’ - Arts & Living news | Newser
“Instead, let’s assume that there are a number of content-related disciplines...”
– A List Apart: Articles: The Discipline of Content Strategy
WatchThe Week in Advertising, Episode 10 - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy
High production value and low humor. This is great!
“Throwing a shoe at someone is hardly a positive gesture anywhere, but in Arab...”
– Shoe-Throw Is Arab World’s Heartiest Insult - World news | Newser
Reuters, Politico to share political news coverage... →
If the revenue-sharing model (like this) doesn’t work… we’re all screwed.
THE BEST ASSIGNMENTS ARE FREE…. →
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A most sincere thank you. Though I’m sure that this is only an instant of feeling, I know it took a long while to compose. I thank you for that time, and for that feeling. It’s a rare honor to…
