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April 2008 - Posts
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:37 AM
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I was doing my usual morning news feed read, newspaper slog and email review, and I was getting depressed. Every single piece of news was grim -- economy bad, politics in shambles, food prices up, gas prices up, mortgages not working the way they should, Read More...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:49 AM
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According to Henry Blodget, who essentially argues the entire kit and kaboodle of print journalism is spinning rapidly down the toilet, with essentially no hope of recovery. Among his overall grim observations : As circulations and ad revenue continue Read More...
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Monday, April 28, 2008 6:59 AM
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Great column today by David Carr at the NYT, writing about the evolution (or devolution) of the WSJ, through the lens of the departures of both Stuart Karle and Marcus Brauchli. Carr looks at what the changes mean for the Journal and for the reporters Read More...
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 5:54 PM
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In an otherwise pretty interesting story by Virginia Heffernan about Flickr and its impact on art photography, I came across this jarring quote: A photography blogger who posts under the name Thomas Hawk is a Flickr regular , and he told me in an e-mail Read More...
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Saturday, April 26, 2008 6:42 AM
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hoo boy, where to begin with this story. First, there is no way to credibly say that Jonathan "gets credit for pioneering the corporate blog as a tool to reach customers, employees, and others," as the story does. He certainly was one of the Read More...
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Monday, April 21, 2008 8:56 PM
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Big news. NYT story here, but no real details. According to both the WSJ and the NYT: Marcus W. Brauchli will step down as the top-ranking editor of The Wall Street Journal after less than a year in the job, four people briefed on the matter said on Monday, Read More...
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Monday, April 21, 2008 8:32 PM
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Lots of chatter about Twitter being down most of the weekend, which made me think about the relative priorities of my various communications channels -- the way I personally receive information. 1. Catastrophic: no Internet connection (I include my smartphone Read More...
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Friday, April 18, 2008 7:31 AM
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By Daniel Engber concludes his series on radical skepticism in Slate, with a very good look at rampant conspiracy theories in science, using the new Ben Stein movie as the foil. It's worth reading (movie review here ). The fascinating paradigm Read More...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:01 AM
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Well, maybe not, but according to this article in the SJ Merc, it got a UC Berkeley grad student out of an Egyptian jail. Buck, 29, a former Oakland Tribune multimedia intern, used the ubiquitous short messaging service to tap out a single word on his Read More...
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Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:15 PM
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A pretty sobering story about the financial straits at the Journal Register Company. Henry Blodget weighs in as well with even grimmer analysis. At the same time, both note that the company is delivering strong operating profit, and its problems seem Read More...
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 6:56 AM
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Interesting story in the NYT style section about the value of heart rate monitors. Their conclusion? Hard to say -- other than maybe not as important as people say. My running partner brother had a post up recently that looked at something similar , the Read More...
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 6:22 AM
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At the bulldog media conference earlier this week, I participated in a brief panel discussion on the future of PR, using this slide deck as a guide. In a lot of ways, I've been talking to this central point for about six years from now -- as we look at Read More...
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Monday, April 07, 2008 9:37 PM
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I was at the Bulldog Media Conference in San Fran yesterday, doing a presentation on the role PR plays in the new marketing mix. At the second keynote, the speaker asked how many people had read a newspaper/magazine in the last week, and about half the Read More...
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Monday, April 07, 2008 5:29 PM
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early last week, I got word that the NYT was working on a major piece about blogging. Sources deep inside the SF bureau tipped me off that the "death by blogging" story was coming, based on my blogging proclivity, the stress I put on myself Read More...
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