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YouTube Music: Shut Your Eyes – Snow Patrol (live)

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The real music video for this song cannot be embedded, but this live clip is pretty good. The video for the song can still be watched on YouTube, and it’s cool.

YouTube Music: Seal – Chemical Brothers

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YouTube Music: Galaxy of Emptiness – Beth Orton

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…and wearing an Air t-shirt no less!

“We’re Looking At Some Of The Worst Advertising Numbers In The History Of The World” – Sam Zell

The quarterly numbers for daily newspaper publishers are starting to come out, and they’re pretty ugly. The New York Times reported yesterday that earnings fell by 82% with an 11% decline in revenue. Given how bad the environment is right now for daily newspapers in general but especially given the economic environment, there shouldn’t be [...]

YouTube Music: End of All Rivers – Bruce Cockburn

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A Great Story About FDR, Mass Media, And Daily Newspapers

Driving to lunch yesterday listening to NPR’s Talk of the Nation, I heard a great story from the author of a recently published biography on Franklin Roosevelt relating to the power of communicating effectively through mass media.
One week after being inaugurated in 1933, FDR spoke directly to the American people through the first of his [...]

YouTube Music: Adrian Legg – Ghosts In The Hills (Live)

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Awesome guitar, especially once it gets going. The studio version (Guitar Bones is the album) is excellent. Another one worth listening to is Guitars and Other Cathedrals, but I couldn’t find that on YouTube.

State Operated, Publicly Financed Job Boards Failing To Gain Traction

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I thought I’d post a Compete.com graph of the visitors to a few state-operated, publicly financed job boards in a sample of states where JobDig operates (JobDig currently serves markets in 14 states, and just announced its 15th state – Indiana – that will launch August 4th). The chart [...]

YouTube Music: Dry The Rain – Beta Band (Live)

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Why Do States Waste Taxpayer Money On Job Boards?

With the announcement that JobDig is launching its next market in Indianapolis on August 4th, I came across Indianacareerconnect, a job board operated by the state of Indiana. I have been tracking Minnesota’s job board, Minnesotaworks.net, for years and I have been continually baffled as to why states feel the need to offer this service [...]