It is looking like John McCain will lose, and depending on the poll, not by much. If he does lose by a slim margin, then we will be able to attribute his loss to the bill that bears his name, the McCain/Feingold Act, which is the common name for the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. You see, at the root is this: John McCain elected to take public funds in the spriit of the bill he co-sponsored. In doing…
“If I Should Fall from Grace with God”
Editor and Publisher is reporting that the Orange County Register is laying off 110 by Friday. We should remember that their parent company a few months ago launched a pilot program to outsource some editing to India, in addition to also sending some pages for pagination overseas as well. A flat world indeed! OCR Publisher Terry Horne: “This isn’t necessarily just to improve profitability, we have to become a different kind of company,” Horne said. “We will be more focused…
Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy. Wow – read the post before this first. Then read this. Here’s where we’re going, folks. This is earth shattering. The Christian Science Monitor plans major changes in April 2009 that are expected to make it the first newspaper with a national audience to shift from a daily print format to an online publication that is updated continuously each day. The changes at the Monitor will include enhancing the content on CSMonitor.com, starting…
New York Times To Staff: Relax, We’re Not Firing You Yet Wow – even with out the Silicon Valley Insider’s snark, this is a wild and wooly bit to go out to the troops from the NYT Editor, Bill Keller. The cattle must have been close to stampede… Check out the Insiders conclusion: But we have a problem with Bill’s characterization of the cuts around the industry as “short-sighted.” Bill’s business reporters would never characterize them that way, and if…
Yesterday the Interwebs were all a twitter after a couple A-list-types were laid off and the production schedule pared back at Revision3. We need to get over it. Companies have to adjust to the new reality of our economic misfortune. It would be utterly irresponsible for a company not to act, but that doesn’t make it easier for any of the folks affected. It was all fun and games for Twitter when it was Joe WebDev at Seesmic, or Jane…
The folks at Automattic today released WordPress 2.6.3 which is a minor security patch to the Snoopy script they use for displaying rss feeds in the admin area. Not an utterly crucial upgrade, but one you might want to take just to be sure your secure. The upgrade took me 5 minutes using the auto upgrade plugin. One issue that I noticed while using the auto upgrade plugin, which was also upgraded, was that the script failed repeatedly on the…
Okay, the past week has been utterly bizzare, so that means there’s only on performer for our Friday Music Video: Frank Zappa, and I’ve chosen an excellent version of his anthem, Peaches En Regalia. Enjoy…
The Top 10 Gadget Sites | Fast Company We relaunched geek.com last month, and this month Geek’s made the FastCompany.com list of top 10 gadget sites. Congratulations to Joel, Sal, Robb and the rest of the Team! We’re in good company, with my college buddy Jim Louderback’s Revision3 making the list for Tekzilla (love it!) and Leo Laporte’s Twit.tv as well (I’m a subscriber…).
Watching the Twitter streams of the newly minted gurus of Social Media, I’m often surprised by how little many of the experts actually know about traditional media. In fact, I’m surprised by how many of us actually have bought the “journalistic ethics” and “media bias” lines we see so often. One of the giants of the Social Media, who I’m not gonna call out here, the other day expressed dismay that the Boston Globe had made an endorsement of Senator…