Saturday, October 3, 2009
Dinner at Delta's in New Brunswick, NJ
Google CEO Tries to Do No Harm
Interesting interview of sorts where Eric Schmidt broaches the issue of the death of newspapers and Google/the Internet's role. But actions always speak louder than words ...
in reference to: Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Newspapers & Journalism (view on Google Sidewiki)Thank You , Mr. Scarborough ...
I often disagree with him on fiscal issues, but he once again nails the absurdities of the moment.
in reference to: Joe Scarborough: Thank You, Mr. President (view on Google Sidewiki)Apple 'tablet' is the ultimate tease ...
Normally I'm not an Apple acolyte, but if anyone can create an e-reader with power and the ability to add music, books and newspapers to the mix, it's these guys.
in reference to: Apple tablet won't be just an e-reader, argues analyst - Network World (view on Google Sidewiki)Interesting, but obvious ...
The openness of the web should allow for independent, local news websites that cater to local communities.
As the creation of mobile apps becomes cheaper, why couldn't local news-gathering organizations create them?
By destroying corporate news media's stranglehold on local journalism (Gannett, McClatchy, etc.), like local independent banks, independent local and regional news organizations could thrive again.
Can the netbook/e-reader be far off?
I love my netbook. And if you turn it on it's side, it looks like a book. Imagine if the screen had the tools to scroll and paginate like an e-reader? Now that'd be an e-reader worth owning.
in reference to: Netbooks propel global semiconductor sales - Network World (view on Google Sidewiki)The real game-changer?
Sleepydog's aiming to get kids hooked on eBooks via their iPhones and iPods. That's truly breaking the paradigm. Get 'em while they're young!
in reference to: Sleepydog announces iPhone eBooks aimed at young audience - Network World (view on Google Sidewiki)Not since Constantine?
Funny, for centuries armies crisscrossed the European continent in efforts to create a unified empire and now the reality inches closer one vote at a time ...
in reference to: Irish Voters Give Big 'Yes' to EU Reform - WSJ.com (view on Google Sidewiki)Friday, October 2, 2009
Patriotism?
Right Wingnuts celebrate loss of Olympics to Rio. That's just demented.
in reference to: Rooting against America: Beck, other conservatives cheer elimination of Chicago's Olympic bid | Media Matters for America (view on Google Sidewiki)But, Joe Wilson IS a neanderthal and a knuckle-dragger ...
Alan Grayson has the stones Pelosi and Reid should borrow ...
in reference to: The Democrats' Joe Wilson? - Page 1 - The Daily Beast (view on Google Sidewiki)Jerk Vs. Jerk
It's like they were made for each other. I mean, I think Dave's way funnier than Leno, but he does come off as a bit of a jerk ...
in reference to: Is This Dave's Blackmailer? - Page 1 - The Daily Beast (view on Google Sidewiki)You want peace between Israelis and Palestinians?
Get the people jobs and security. Look what that did for Northern Ireland.
in reference to: Al Jazeera English - Middle East - UN: Poverty tripled in Gaza (view on Google Sidewiki)Gotta Love the Irish ...
... when times were great, they sneered at the EU, now that they need stimulus, it's all about the love.
in reference to: Al Jazeera English - Europe - Ireland votes on Lisbon treaty (view on Google Sidewiki)Thursday, October 1, 2009
Wait, I thought only Fox News did this kind of thing?
Newsmax might was well stop pretending to be a news organization.
in reference to: Republican National Committee Sponsors Newsmax | TPM LiveWire (view on Google Sidewiki)Wait, I thought we voted these guys out?
Obama Administration seems to forget the Constitution like the previous administration.
in reference to: White House Proposes Changes in Bill Protecting Reporters’ Confidentiality - NYTimes.com (view on Google Sidewiki)If women don't want to be second-class citizens ...
They better wake up.
in reference to: Support Appears to Drop for Abortion Rights - NYTimes.com (view on Google Sidewiki)Surprisingly balanced review ...
Kozlowski really nails Moore on his failings, but finds a good movie beneath the polemics.
in reference to: Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ Targets Both Right and Left (view on Google Sidewiki)Apple takes on Amazon
Be real interesting to see if this is true.
in reference to: Apple's Tablet: Now Saving Newspapers Near You - Network World (view on Google Sidewiki)Wars within wars ...
Somali Islamists go at each other.
in reference to: Al Jazeera English - Africa - Somali factions battle in Kismayo (view on Google Sidewiki)Great story on Germany's Election
If German conservatives can elect an openly gay guy, what's wrong with our conservatives?
in reference to: Germany Has a Gay Minister -- Yäwn! | Foreign Policy (view on Google Sidewiki)Alan Grayson is kind of awesome
"These are foot dragging, knuckle dragging neanderthals who think they can dictate policy to America by being stubborn and I think the time is over. We had an election, that's it. Now we have to move ahead in just the way the President wants us to."
in reference to: Alan Grayson goes on the set of The Situation Room and fires back on the Republicans! | Crooks and Liars (view on Google Sidewiki)WashPost nails it on Polanski ...
It's time for justice.
in reference to: The Sordidness of Polanski's Crime Justifies U.S. Adjudication - washingtonpost.com (view on Google Sidewiki)Simon Doonan rocks!
One of the last true wits of New York media waxes poetic about Benjamin Disraeli.
in reference to: Dead Cool - The Daily Beast (view on Google Sidewiki)Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Bernie Madoff-inspired art ...
Made in China no less.
in reference to: Chen Wenling's Bernie Madoff Art: Wall Street Villain Pinned To Wall By Bull (view on Google Sidewiki)It's like having a million Nigerian princes as friends!
"More and more fraudsters are harvesting the log-in data of Facebook members in order to impersonate them and ask their friends for money, according to the social-networking company."
in reference to: Facebook warns members about rise in '419' scam - Network World (view on Google Sidewiki)Hope for new media?
"Online advertising spending in the UK has overtaken television expenditure for the first time, a report has said."
in reference to:
- BBC NEWS | Business | Online advertising 'overtakes TV' (view on Google Sidewiki)
Interesting ...
The Right will see the EU as kowtowing to Russia, but the reality says more about how Georgia interpreted the Bush Administration's support for former Soviet satellites.
in reference to: BBC NEWS | Europe | Georgia 'started unjustified war' (view on Google Sidewiki)Gay Talese on Drinking and Journalism at the NYT
The collection of his stories, "Fame and Obscurity", was a big reason I became a journalist. When I was a segment producer for Good Morning America, I got the chance to book him for a segment. It was just a thrill to speak with him on the phone. Here on BigThink, Talese expounds on the virtues of hard-drinking reporters:
Facts overtake rumors and lies about health care reform ...
But is it too late?
in reference to: The Death of Death Panels - Page 1 - The Daily Beast (view on Google Sidewiki)Oh well, there's nothing like a challenge ...
Just what I needed: More character-building.
in reference to: Study points to benefits from Great Depression - CNN.com (view on Google Sidewiki)Interesting stuff about women and sex ...
but the last line is really a little depressing.
in reference to: Love, pleasure, duty: Why women have sex - CNN.com (view on Google Sidewiki)Tuesday, September 29, 2009
China's Baidu is a lesson in business acumen
Google feels the pain in the world's largest emerging market.
in reference to: Where Google Loses | Foreign Policy (view on Google Sidewiki)There's a UK wine industry?
I thought it was weird there was a vineyard in Colts Neck, New Jersey ...
in reference to: UK wine industry gets £1.6m boost - decanter.com - the route to all good wine (view on Google Sidewiki)Just stop yourselves ...
When Hollywood-types choose their causes, they really get some weird-ass beer goggles going on. Polanski drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl. What part of that don't they get?
in reference to: Filmmakers demand Polanski's release - CNN.com (view on Google Sidewiki)Chinese Communist Art
GREAT slideshow on the Beeb about the history of socialist art from China.
in reference to: BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Audio slideshow: Art and politics in China (view on Google Sidewiki)Guinea situation ...
...worse than first reported.
in reference to: BBC NEWS | Africa | Guinea rally death toll nears 130 (view on Google Sidewiki)The Great Health Care Scam explained ...
Normally Dylan Ratigan's free-market, Objectivist ramblings put me off, but he makes a lot of sense in this article.
in reference to: Dylan Ratigan: Why Would We Let Them Rig the Game? (view on Google Sidewiki)But is it really news?
It's great to read that the people are keeping up on current events, but Gallup fails to define what "news" is.
Are people reading traditional news stories from papers, magazines and websites? Or are they just reading partisan blogs or watching cable news polemicists?
That's just sad ...
Because if that's the best the GOP can do under the current circumstances, they are kind of screwed.
in reference to: Republican base still wild about Sarah Palin - Michael Falcone and Zachary Abrahamson - POLITICO.com (view on Google Sidewiki)Tomorrow's World ...
Network World's cool image gallery of the mobile devices of the near-future.
in reference to: Sneak a Peek at the Mobile Phones of Tomorrow - Network World (view on Google Sidewiki)If brevity is the soul of wit ...
... than Squeaker is the social networking site that kind of lets to say it all ... in only 14 characters.
in reference to: Squeaker | Nanoblogging (view on Google Sidewiki)From the "no, duh" file ...
... there is a misconception that because large numbers of upwardly mobile, middle-class folks in urban centers use smartphones, e-readers and netbooks that the majority of the U.S. uses them, too.
Not so, in fact only 30-percent of the mobile phone market in the U.S. use smartphones. Still, surveys like these could be better used to analyze the failure of business models for content companies on the web.
There is a dodgy assumption that large numbers of Americans are "going digital", when the truth is it's probably more fragmented and regional than that, with only segments of the greater community abandoning old media for the new.
Monday, September 28, 2009
I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you ...
Betsy McCaughey had a roles in derailing Hilarycare and now she's back!
in reference to: Serial misinformer McCaughey exposed as Big Tobacco shill during 1994 health care debate | Media Matters for America (view on Google Sidewiki)Ah, Dr. Evil, I presume ...
Man who ran AIG's Financial Products division is back in town and dealing with the Feds ...
in reference to: Man who crashed world returns unscathed (Dealscape - Scandal) (view on Google Sidewiki)Why China may be about to have it's own Century
It's financial services is used to invest in the country's infrastructure. Kind of like the U.S. war effort, the space program, the highway system ...
in reference to: The Party's Not Over | Foreign Policy (view on Google Sidewiki)STOP THE PRESSES!!!!
What next? Disney unloads Mickey Mouse?
in reference to: Time Warner could be without Time (Dealscape - M&A) (view on Google Sidewiki)While not "justice", per se ...
It's better than nothing.
in reference to: Ashcroft May Face Liability for Post-9/11 Policies (view on Google Sidewiki)Democracy struggles all over ...
In Guinea.
in reference to: Al Jazeera English - Africa - 'Scores killed' at Guinea protest (view on Google Sidewiki)From the "D'oh!" department ...
Someone needs a refresher course in Outlook: "The Associated Press (AP) news agency has accidentally published internal notes about the arrest of film director Roman Polanski instead of a story."
in reference to: BBC NEWS | Technology | Polanski notes leaked on to net (view on Google Sidewiki)An era ending with a whimper ...
Inspiration for a painting and a song succumbs to lupus.
in reference to: Lucy Vodden Dead: 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' Dies At 46 (view on Google Sidewiki)Ripped from the headlines ...
... takes on new meaning with the latest turn in a newspaper family's saga.
in reference to: Anne Morell Petrillo, Daughter Of Slain Scripps Heiress, Commits Suicide On Same Bridge As Stepfather (view on Google Sidewiki)Kyrgyzstan: Torn between three lovers ...
Fascinating look at the Central Asian country that's home to both Russian and U.S. military bases, yet also has a growing trade partnership with China.
in reference to: Kyrgyzstan: Tripolar disorder | The Economist (view on Google Sidewiki)Sunday, September 27, 2009
Rest in Peace
William Safire, like William F.Buckley before him, were intellectual conservatives who made the great debates of the latter half of the 20th century American life a pleasure to observe and to participate. Safire's "On Language" was always a kick to read.
in reference to: William Safire, Times Columnist, Is Dead at 79 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com (view on Google Sidewiki)Technology does it again ...
"the only iPhone app that puts you directly in touch with God."
in reference to: 'Send A Prayer' iPhone App Beams Prayers To Rabbis (PHOTOS, VIDEO) (view on Google Sidewiki)Wines of Distinction from September 26, 2009
On Saturday evening, SF Chronicle Wine Editor Jon Bonne had Bob and I over for dinner with his family in Pound Ridge, New York. A low-key affair, we spent time talking about his late father, Jack Bonne, and enjoying some nice wines with his mother, Betty, and sister, Julie.
Jon and Julie broke out some wonderful food, too. A goat's milk brie that was sublime, homegrown cucumbers, brisket ...
While Jon lamented two corked bottles, one a Muscadet, the other a 2000 L'Excellence de St-Luc, we did enjoy an amazing 2007 Hirsch Gruner Veltliner Heiligenstein (citrus, floral notes), a 2007 Charles Joguet Chinon (dark fruits with a mild peppery finish), a 2003 Château Greysac Medoc (dark cherry, smooth mouth-feel and finish).
Julie had a wonderful 2008 Halter Ranch Rosé, a blend of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre that I guess you could say was the last of the summer wine. Rosé and summer, what a combo ...
We opened a 1989 Chateau Plagnac Médoc (a Cru Bourgeois, of course ... ooh-la-la), but, as Jon quipped, like Kathleen Turner in Peggy Sue Got Married, "it was past its prime."
A splendid evening overall ...
Tablet Wars overview ...
Great look at the next leap in personal tech.
in reference to: The coming tablet wars (view on Google Sidewiki)When kooks collide ...
Ron Paul and Michele Bachman take the stage together and instead of coming across as apocalyptic wingnuts, settle into just looking a little sad and pathetic.
in reference to: The Craziest Town Hall Ever - Page 1 - The Daily Beast (view on Google Sidewiki)Beautiful losers ...
Nan Goldin's pics always have a hint of despair to them, but she does capture -- and for good or ill -- romanticize the lives of urban castaways. Cool slide show on the Daily Beast.
in reference to: Nan Goldin's Underground - The Daily Beast (view on Google Sidewiki)Search This Blog
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