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Newspaper sales fall 21% in historic rout 
Newsosaur via Reflections of a Newsosaur on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Newspaper advertising sales dived by a record 21.1% in the third quarter in a historic, across-the-board rout paced by a nearly 31% plunge in classified revenues.Barely eking out $9 billion in print sales in the three months ended in September, the industry shed more than $1 billion in revenues from the same period in the prior year, according to statistics published quietly on the afterno
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Thanks, Sasa
(unknown author) via huh? on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
Thanks, Sasa
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Should Newspaper Companies Get Out Of The Newspaper Business?
Scott Karp via Publishing 2.0 on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
Forgot the bailout. I have a great new business model for Detroit automakers. Sell Toyotas and Hondas. Detroit already has the dealer networks. There’s great demand for Japanese cars. In fact, Detroit could retool all of their manufacturing plants to make Toyotas and Hondas.
That proposal is similar to one put forth for newspaper companies by API’s Newspaper Next project.
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No editions, please
yelvington via yelvington.com on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
While we're treading water pending the rollout of our Drupal-based site management project, I thought it might be worth mentioning some of the principles and assumptions behind it. Here's one: No editions, please.
I've seen developers put a great deal of effort into creating Web content managment systems that are intended to reflect the edition structure -- daily, weekly, monthly, whatev
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Everything you know about online news design is wrong?
Ryan via Invisible Inkling on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
Over at Signal vs. Noise, Jason Fried explains “why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the Web.”
“The Drudge Report usually leads with a “font size=+7” ALL CAPS headline in Arial. Sometimes it’s italicized.
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Gmail Themes. That’s Totally Ninja.
Michael Arrington via TechCrunch on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
Apparently a lucky few Gmail users had a “Themes” tab pop up under settings. No longer do you have to suffer through the boring-if-functional standard Gmail interface for the 16 hours a day that you keep the page loaded. Try “Ninja” instead.
Thanks for the tip
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Marijuana Could Be Good for Memory But Not if You're High
Brandon Keim via Wired Top Stories on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
A compound similar to THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, improves memory in rats in low doses, and could help stave off Alzheimer's disease.
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Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done
(unknown author) via TechCrunch on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
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So many collaboration apps to choose from!
A team of ex-Googlers, with backing from Y Combinator, the Friendfeed founders and others, have created what might be both the ugliest and most useful group pr
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President-elect Obama promises “new chapter” on climate change
(unknown author) via Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Tr on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
More than 600 climate change leaders from across the country and around the world convened in Los Angeles today for the opening sessions of the Global Climate Summit, a 2-day event arranged by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to break gridlock on the issue ahead of next month's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland.
In a short video addressed to the Summit's
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LIFE Photo Archive available on Google Image Search
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination; The Mansell Collection from London; Dahlstrom glass plates of New York and environs from the 1880s; and the entire works left to the collection from LIFE photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gjon Mili, and Nina Leen. These are just some of the things you'll see in Google Image Search today.We're excited to announce the availability of never-befo
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Newspaper industry's leaders keep putting off drastic change
Jim Romenesko via Romenesko on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
SteveOuting.com The newspaper execs who attended last week's API "crisis summit" announced they'll meet again in six months, prompting Martin Langeveld to write: "Six months? They've laid off more than 10,000 people in the last six months -- what will be left six months from now? They need to launch a Manhattan
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Horace Greeley on ‘hyperlocal’ journalism
Howard Owens via howardowens.com on Sun, 16 Nov. 2008
Horace Greeley to “Friend Fletcher” in April, 1830:
Begin with a clear conception that the subject of deepest interest to an average human being is himself; next to that he is most concerned about his neighbors. Asia and the Tongo Islands stand a long way after these in his regard…. Do not let a new church be organized, or new members be added to
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Walter Lippmann on a ‘Free Press’
Howard Owens via howardowens.com on Sun, 16 Nov. 2008
The quote is from Walter Lippmann’s book Public Opinion. Keep in mind, he wrote this in 1922, not 2002.
This insistent and ancient belief that truth is not earned, but inspired, revealed, supplied gratis, comes out very plainly in our economic prejudices as readers of newspapers. We expect the news
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CEO Summit on Saving an Industry in Crisis - American Press Institute
(unknown author) via www.americanpressinstitute.org on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
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There it is. Will they listen?
"Cutting staffs will reduce costs, but it won't happen fast enough, and will erode the product," Miller said in a luncheon speech. "You have to reinvent your business model."
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Classic Atari-style joystick goes USB
(unknown author) via Macworld on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
Legacy Engineering Group has developed an Atari-style USB joystick that works with the Mac.
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How Newspapers Can Increase Their Google Juice
(unknown author) via MediaShift on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
There isn't much difference between what appears in a small newspaper's print edition and online. Many photographs make it online that don't make it to print, and the AP stories are usually a widget feed from the AP. However, in order to maximize search engine traffic and the reader's satisfaction, newspapers need to rethink their approach to online content.
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CrunchGear » Archive » The Red EPIC strides from the mists of time
(unknown author) via www.crunchgear.com on Thu, 13 Nov. 2008
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man, nobody does marketing bold marketing like this any more. hell of a camera system, too.
This, my friends, is a camera. Jim Janard over at Red has begun telling the world about his new modular camera system with its Mysterium-X ...
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Williams first team to shake down 2009-spec aero package (+pic) - F1technical.net
(unknown author) via www.f1technical.net on Thu, 13 Nov. 2008
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thank god this doesn't look like an irl car. but the rear wing is almost cartoonish. why is this car outfitted with full wets?
At Gloucestershire’s Kemble airfield today, AT&T Williams became the first team to shake down a 2009-specification aerodynamic package. With driving duties undertaken by Formula 3 driver, Jonathan Kennard, the tes
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Online Video: Where’s The Money?
Erick Schonfeld via TechCrunch on Thu, 13 Nov. 2008
Here is the stark reality of online video: nobody is making much money and the enthusiastic projections for online video advertising going from $500 million in 2008 to more than $5 billion in five years will undoubtedly be pared back in the coming weeks as analysts revisit their numbers. (Those numbers are from August—eMarketer).
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