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 [...]
Time For SNL To Get Beat Down By the Hansons
A couple of weeks ago I watched Saturday Night Live for the first time in a long time. It was the first show after the writers’ strike ended, and Tina Fey was hosting. It was one of the best episodes I’ve ever seen. I didn’t get to see last week’s episode, but I started watching [...]
How Would DLR Raise My Kids?
As I’ve said before, I often pause when I’m at a crossroads in my life to ask myself WWDLRD–What Would David Lee Roth Do? I guess it’s reasonable to suspect that my perspective would change once I decided to unleash version 2.0 of this gene package onto the world. Then again, when have I been [...]
Sort The Viewers, Not The Movies
My buddy IB sent this article to me…very interesting. Netflix is running a contest for data crunchers and offering $1M to anyone (or any team) that can beat their current recommendation system by 10%. One of the leaders is a psychologist working by himself who is looking less at raw data and more at human [...]
And I Ain’t Lost Yet
Billymac just got back from Vegas, and it sounds like he did pretty well at the poker tables. I’ve known and loved Billymac for years, and this is one reason why… I like… no, I LOVE, taking money from punk-ass kids that show up to a poker room wearing a track-suit, pulled down hat, wrap [...]
About Yesterday…
Newscoma has an interesting post this morning about the three big stories yesterday–the economy, Thompson exiting the Presidential race, and Heath Ledger’s death–and how they were covered by the media. In rooting around the Internet yesterday, as I was a blogging fool for about five different websites, the most response I saw about all of the [...]
Was This Part Of The Dream?
I’ve wrestled for a couple of days on how to compose this post, and I’m still not sure I can do this idea justice. I think the best way to frame it is to begin by quoting an email a friend sent to me on Saturday. A little background–he has two small children who are enrolled in arguably [...]
Ron Paul’s Next Move
Ron Paul’s campaign is at a serious crossroads. This time last week he was armed with a treasure chest full of cash, an army of enthusiastic supporters, and even though he hadn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of winning the Republican nomination, a third party run was looking promising. This time next week, he may [...]
Chavez Brokers Deal For Hostages
From the Christian Science Monitor, two higher priority hostages have been released, and others may be forthcoming. The article doesn’t say what Chavez offered to secure their release. Interesting. Show of hands–who here thinks Chavez promised FARC something juicy (hmm…what could a militant group want?) in return for making him look like a hero and [...]
Finch Addresses County Commission
Hat tip to mbradley for pointing us to the video of Wednesday’s meeting. If you aren’t local, this is hilarious. If you are, it’s truly sad. [youtube SK3vPgawsfU] WARNING: multiple instances here of the pot calling the kettle…uh…cookware. You can just feel/smell the love here, can’t you? Story in the KNS.
