In Prime Obsession: Bernard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, author John Derbyshire tells a fabulous story about arguably the greatest mathematician that ever lived, Carl Friedrich Gauss. Gauss was one of, if not the first mathematician to shine light on the Prime Number Theorem which led to the now infamous Riemann Hypothesis. [...]
If the extent of Wall Street’s obliteration over the past week or so hasn’t yet sunk in, take a look at the following chart from the Wall Street Journal:
What’s going on in Washington and New York is utter insanity.
LinkUp, arguably the best national jobs site on the web today, has released a widget that allows any blogger (or any site for that matter) to publish jobs on their blog or web site. The widget is available here, and can be customized to publish only those jobs that the hosting site wants to publish [...]
At the same time that Microsoft aborted its Seinfeld-Gates marketing campaign after just a few commercials (more proof that Ballmer and his team have no clue what they’re doing), Apple started running what is arguably the best online ad campaign to ever hit the web. I am not sure where else the ad is running, [...]
Doonesbury’s Rick Redfern was layed off from the Washington Post this week in another high profile sign that the daily newspaper industry is coming to an end almost as swiftly as the investment banking industry. To add insult to injury, Redfern’s boss suggests that he could use his buyout package to ease the transition to [...]
Amid worsening Wal Street headlines this week, the daily newspaper industry is doing its best to maintain its dominance as the most distressed industry in the capital markets. Just this week, the following news stories have appeared in the headlines:
• Tribune and its blustery CEO Sam Zell are being sued by Tribune employees for mismanagement [...]
With the announcements from the weekend concerning Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and now AIG, we are, without a doubt, in the midst of a once-in-a-generation economic maelstrom that could quickly turn into a depression-type crisis if the dominos keep falling. While the ripples (or waves or tsunami) will be felt in virtually every corner of [...]
The most recent biennial news consumption survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press confirms that the web contiues to displace traditional media as the primary source of news for most Americans. A Research Brief from the Center for Media Research not only provides an excellent snapshot of the 4 distinct [...]
On December 31st of 2007, I made 10 predictions for the coming year. The #1 prediction was that a major metro market in the U.S. would lose its daily newspaper in 2008. While some smaller newspapers have folded and other larger ones have been put up for sale without any serious takers, the prediction at [...]
The best commentator on the decline of the dailies, Alan Mutter - aka the Newsosaur, recently uncovered a very interesting McClatchy filing with the SEC and has written an excellent post about what it might mean. Essentially, McClatchy’s CEO has resigned from the family trusts that own a 41% stake in McClatchy, a step that [...]