March 2009
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“But no one yet has unlocked the puzzle of supporting a large newsroom purely on...”
– For Papers, a Downsizing Trickle Becomes a Flood - NYTimes.com
Continuing on this topic, the only viable solution for the survival of newspapers is microcharging. Solely relying on ad revenue to run a newspaper is not only unprofitable (and obviously not working), but it is damaging to the entire...
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the day the indie music died
I’d really love to analyze the way my musical tastes have changed over the years, similarly to the way I analyzed how my writing changed over the years. Because I’d like to know how I missed the exact day that indie music, something I’d loved for years, began to bore me to the point where I can’t stand it these days.
Not that I haven’t tried. I’ll get on hypem,...
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THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 8-10-03; Sexed Texts - The... →
I’d say this is interesting, but a little too black and white. It’s also not that accurate, at least not in my case, because when I took this test using my longer blog entries or some articles I’ve written for the newspaper, I was overwhelmingly classified as male. My vagina would tend to disagree with this verdict.
Update: because this is the kind of odd curiosity I have, I ran...
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bad business, bad day
It’s a bad time to be in the newspaper business, especially when you’ve been walking a financial tightrope for years, with no safety net of any kind.
I understand that moving here, I traded stability for excitement. My life has already been more compelling in 26 years than most people’s entire existence. However, there’s only so long one can live in uncertainty before they...