May 2009 Archives
05/28/09 8:31 AM
Shhhh. Newspaper Publishers Are Quietly Holding a Very, Very Important Conclave Today. Will You Soon Be Paying for Online Content?
Here's a story the newspaper industry's upper echelon apparently kept from its anxious newsrooms: A discreet Thursday meeting in
"Models to Monetize Content" is the subject of a gathering at a hotel which is actually located in drab and sterile suburban
There's no mention on its website but the Newspaper Association of America, the industry trade group, has assembled top executives of the New York Times, Gannett, E. W. Scripps, Advance Publications, McClatchy, Hearst Newspapers, MediaNews Group, the Associated Press, Philadelphia Media Holdings, Lee Enterprises and Freedom Communication Inc., among more than two dozen in all. A longtime industry chum, consultant Barbara Cohen, "will facilitate the meeting."
05/25/09 6:38 PM
A chance Memorial Day reminder of the rich history, sometimes unknown, of individual lives
Just before a small Memorial Day parade in
It was via an email I forgot to open the past week from a
05/25/09 9:31 AM
I hate to sound like Andy Rooney, especially on Memorial Day, but...
My favorites include Stephen Chau, 29, a former Goldman Sachs banker who moved to Google and discerned how to incorporate photos into online maps, giving us the wonderful Street View. Then there's Alexandra Patsavas, 41, the owner of Chop Shop Music Supervision, who has a knack for matching just the right song to the right scene in shows like "Mad Men" and "Grey's Anatomy."
But what about a "100 Dumbest People in Business"? Even on this solemn day, I hereby nominate one.
05/23/09 7:24 AM
Going Dutch: If you crave speedier security clearances at U.S. airports, it may be best to move to the Netherlands
As a friend responded when I told him of this discovery, perhaps it's because we figure you can't put bombs in wooden shoes.
In fact, the Department of Homeland Security and its U.S. Customs and Border Protection are expanding a program to make it easier to get through airport security--- if you're a citizen of the
05/21/09 2:36 PM
The Obama-Cheney Face-Off: Teaching Lectern vs. Bully Pulpit
Thursday's national security grudge match between President Obama and former Vice President Cheney could not have been more vivid in its disparities nor richer in mutual recrimination.
Rarely have two men of such rank been
"I think the President really is not an old-fashioned, civil-rights-era liberal," said Strauss, the Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School (must make for a long business card).
I nudged nudged Strauss into playing a popular parlour game: the Supremes Sweepstakes, or speculating about filling a Supreme Court vacancy. And though a lousy economy leaves less leisure time to so amuse oneself, the retirement of Justice David Souter inspires resumption of this mostly indoor sport.
Rather than check with
Eliot
My wife, Cornelia, and I (but mostly me) probably erred by focus-grouping the name with friends. I had a total aversion to anything on that annual list of favorites published again recently by the government. No Jacob for us. Our five-year-old son, a "Batman" obsessive and clearly a
And while our preference generally drew warm responses, there were the few raised eyebrows.
05/14/09 10:11 PM
When it comes to paid speaking, Tom Friedman makes the complicated simple (accidentally).
Tom Friedman's unchallenged virtue is making the complicated simple. He's done it again, albeit inadvertently, when it comes to journalists taking money.
05/06/09 1:20 PM
Sharing: Good for GOP, bad for media
David Brooks of the New York Times argues that Republicans spend too much time worrying about freedom and individual choice rather than community and sharing.
