Murdoch On "Ridiculous" Journal Editing -Gawker
He [Rupert Murdoch] also rants about how it’s "ridiculous" that an average of 8.3 editors looks at a typical WSJ story, inevitable expanding it beyond reason. "People don’t have time for it — there’s not a story that you can’t get all the facts in (within) half the space."
Rupert, shut [...]
There’s no end to the back and forth bashing between bloggers and traditional journalists. Journalists have felt threatened by bloggers really because blogs are too immediate. That doesn’t fit with the process and techniques reporters are taught in journalism schools. With blogs everything they’ve spent years learning seems to go out the window. But really [...]
Seeing a comparison between men and women’s salaries somewhere on the Interweb this morning it occurred to me to wonder how such comparisons are made, whether or not outliers are included. Typically, in my experience, people tend to use statistics that best seem to prove their point. So if you want to show a wide [...]
New York’s Original Kazoo Co. stays true to name
The name of the place says it all: The Original Kazoo Co. And, boy, do its owners mean original.
The same belt and pulley machines that stamped and shaped the world’s first metal kazoos circa 1900 still stamp and shape kazoos today. The machines are still in [...]
Ever since liquor stores started sticking notes on their coolers letting us know that the price of my beloved beer would have to go up due to the rising price hops, I’ve assumed it something to do with either the cost of fuel or the displacement of hops crops by corn being turned into [...]
Gas or gamble? Economy forces some to choose
The pressures of a weak economy — concerns about job security and rising prices for gas, food, home heating oil and other goods and services — are causing many gamblers to cancel or reduce the number of casino trips. Those who go are gambling less money than in [...]
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What Market Blog is: Things to read that will have you laughing and learning, instead of losing.
Market Blog is unlike any other financial blog, striving to actually be fun and entertaining.
I’m Mark Mahorney and I’m getting back into blogging the markets, after having taken a year and a half off. I miss it. Basically, I just want to have fun with a lot of attitude, tongue-in-cheekiness, dry wit, sarcastic humor, needling, and antagonizing.
Don’t ask me where oil prices are going. To hell if I know. [...]
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Sub-notebook PC market
The computer manufacturers are just figuring out that not just 3rd world countries want cheap compact computers. They were slow on the uptake, but are finally getting it. On the success of the ASUS Eee, which lets face it, is really a crappy little computer, they are all rushing to bring out new models. [...]