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Monthly Archives: March 2009

wonder if I can bill McClatchy?

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

As noted here I think one way to help stanch the bloodletting at newspapers would to leverage the online ad space (unlimited inventory, multimedia ads, targeting, loyalty/rewards programs) to help support the print editions. Looks like the Miami Herald is doing just that with it’s Super H News:    A tip o’ the green eyeshade [...]

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not sure why they archive these threads

Sunday, March 15, 2009

But this has been biting me as well. An ejected Firewire ipod, while still connected will cause a menu bar clock freeze menu bar beach ball time and date not updating Can’t fast user switch [From Apple - Support - Discussions - Menu Bar Freezes / Crashes ...] Something is obviously amiss with disk mounting [...]

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the death of newspapers != the death of journalism

Saturday, March 14, 2009

[repurposed from here] When the history of the recent era in journalism/the news business is written, part of the story that we’re not hearing about now is that since the 60s (with the influence of television news, I submit), the news has been about the news itself, about personalities and ratings and not so much [...]

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