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Nov 17 2009 ∞

"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish"

In a ‘lost’ chapter of Ken Auletta’s new Google book, he mentions Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement speech at Stanford. I reread it this morning and — besides the closing words above — this part stands out:

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”



Apologies for being somewhat maudlin here, but think this is wonderful.

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Nov 11 2009 ∞
“ [I]t’s also worth pointing out that scoops are the product of journalists’ age-old and delicate balancing act of cultivating high-level sources and managing long-term relationships, while at the same time remaining at arms-length, ready to burn bridges, if necessary, should the facts require it. There’s not a thing wrong with this tension, but readers should be reminded that it exists, and in financial journalism it exists in spades.
— Great comment by Dean Starkman in Columbia Journalism Review’s “The Audit” blog. The full article — focusing on the Wall Street Journal’s AIG scoop — can be found here.
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drunkbrunch:

mascarah:

L.E.S. (and deep inside my mind…)

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Nov 10 2009 ∞

If I could only watch one more film in 2009, it would be this one— “Up in the Air.”

Maybe it’s what I do for a living, but this connects with me on so many different levels. I’m actually afraid to say some of those reasons. 

I am Ryan Bingham.

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Oct 31 2009 ∞
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Wistful thinking, seat-of-the-pants supposition and wild-ass guessing are hardly the ways to address the multibillion-dollar business problem underlying the journalism crisis that threatens the health of our democracy.

No competently managed business would think of taking such a haphazard approach to a challenge as potentially devastating as the press is facing today.

It’s time for editors, publishers, academics and foundations to pony up for serious, in depth and disciplined study of what consumers want, what they need and how journalists and media companies can provide it.
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One of my favorite media critics, Alan Mutter, takes a hatchet to yet another conference tasked with finding new business models for journalism, this time at Harvard.

It seems like the conversation about the future of media has been the same for the last 5+ years.

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WaPo: Does Twitter Et Al Make Us Wittier?

Good article by Monica Hesse. I wish I had a funny one-liner in response — to my own question above, no less — to drive the point home that it probably does.

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Oct 30 2009 ∞
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The very talented Mo documents in a single photo why I likely frighten children.

(The backstory: I was attempting to show her how I liked to play ‘peek-a-boo’ with my niece when she captured this candid photo. She’s crafty, this one.)

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Oct 26 2009 ∞
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The way Marcus Brauchli describes it, his job as executive editor of The Washington Post these days sounds a lot like being on a NASCAR pit crew.

“We’re changing the engine of a car when it’s on the highway,” Brauchli said in a recent interview with Politico. “And we’re changing the tires. And while we’re at it, we’re modifying the trim so it looks better, too.”

But the real challenge for Brauchli — to carry the automotive analogy a little further — may be making sure the wheels don’t come off while he’s busy fixing something else.
— Via Michael Calderone at Politico today. Seriously, I know exactly what Brauchli’s talking about.
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The latest from the Muppet Show’s Swedish Chef!

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Oct 25 2009 ∞
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adamiss:

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

(via ilovecharts)

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Oct 20 2009 ∞

Datamation: "Do You Have 'Offline Stress Disorder'?"

After reading this article, I believe I do. Sigh.

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“ The hardcore business viewers are people tuned into Bloomberg, the really professional trading types watch CNBC and the rest of America, who are interested in the economy, have FBN.
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Fox Business Network anchor Eric Bolling tries to differentiate his audience in a great Mediaite column yesterday. What I don’t get here is that he describes his competitors hitting specific (and very narrow) niches and his own channel’s targets as being a great deal wider (ie. the entire U.S.). Those competitors are also waylaid by the ratings system, which does not capture those viewing at trading floors and financial firms.

So, that begs the question: If that’s the case, why does the network lag so much in the ratings?

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