Forget Education, Someone Has a Better Idea for Schools
From the NYT “Imagine schools that are open all day and offer after-school and evening recreational activities, child care and preschool, tutoring and homework assistance,” the speech reads. “Schools that include dental, medical and counseling clinics.” I’ll get around to imagining that just as soon as I’m finished imagining schools that do what they’re supposed [...]
It’s The Hard Knock Life? For Us?
“In my business, we like to say we’re from the hood. We’re not in the hood. By no means. Not even close.” -Jay Z in “Water For Life” I bet I catch some flack over this one, but it has to be said… Over the last few weeks I’ve read several posts around the blogosphere [...]
Blogging Yourself To Death
An NYT article about the dangers of blogging… Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart attack. In December, another tech blogger, Marc Orchant, died at 50 of a massive coronary. A third, Om Malik, 41, [...]
Bad For The Country?
When I got in my car today, Sean Hannity was on. I know, I know–but that’s the station I’d been listening to earlier. I’ve pretty much established what I think of him before, but what he and his guest, Bernie Goldberg, had to say today really drives homes those feelings. Although I don’t remember which [...]
Why I Give Full Articles in My Feed
With apologies to those who come here only for the ranting… I have a plan to do a whole series of articles on search engine optimization (SEO) for bloggers. While the topic of full vs. partial feeds may not be directly related to SEO at first glance, I feel that it is in a round [...]
A Great Story Opportunity
A while back, I wrote a post about a few advantages newspapers have in the market and how they could use them to remain relevant. Using these assets–excellent writing, investigative journalism, and local marketplace branding–newspapers can give us something no one else can. Today in the KNS, at least on their web site, there is [...]
Stupor Tuesday
What a stinker. Lot’s of folks around the office are talking about the primaries today. It’s strange to me that so many people don’t pay attention until the day of. Anyway, here’s a quick roundup of what some of the blogs I frequent are saying this morning… Music City Bloggers is taking a poll. It [...]
Microsoft to Buy Yahoo!?
From the WSJ: The offer, $31 a share in cash and stock, is a 62% premium to Thursday’s closing price. Microsoft said Yahoo holders would be able to trade their shares for cash or 0.9509 Microsoft shares a piece, with no more than half of the overall purchase price paid in cash. Seems too good [...]
So It’s Not Just Me
Back before anyone read this blog *wink, cough*, I wrote a fairly snarky post about the absolutely ridiculous commercials for Yaz and Viva Viagra. It seems I’m finally vindicated, as NewsComa is equally creeped out by the Viagra commercial. Every now and then I make a mistake that seems fairly common among bloggers. I come up [...]
My Ideal News, uh, Thingy
I’m not affiliated with and don’t have any knowledge of the newspaper business. You could make the case that this doesn’t make my opinion worth much, but if you consider the performance over the last few years of people who do know the business, maybe doing something different warrants some consideration. Jack Lail has been [...]
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