In anticipation of the day that the Minneapolis Star Tribune stops publishing (which could happen any week now), I’ve decided to take steps to prepare for life without a local daily. I am also interested in determining how hard it would actually be to wean myself off of an increasingly irrational addiction to a local [...]
Killer Startups is a site that publishes summaries of startup ideas and has users vote on the one that they think will be the ‘killer’ of the bunch. We submitted LinkUp a while ago and they have included it in today’s group.
If you are so inclined, please take 5-10 seconds to go the page (click [...]
The October jobs report is scheduled to be released tomorrow morning, but if the data generated from LinkUp.com is any indicator, the numbers may not be as bad as economists predict. LinkUp aggregates and publishes job listings directly from company web sites themselves. The September and October jobs data includes job listings from 9,753 companies [...]
Once again, the number of stories to write about has outpaced my ability to keep up. So here’s a quick list of a few stories from the past week or two…
1) Even with an increase in TV advertising revenue due to the Olympics and heavy politcal advertsing, Gannett’s net income for the 3rd quarter dropped [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
From a great editorial by Frank Rich in Sunday’s New York Times entitled Obama Outwits the Bloviators…
YouTube, the medium that has transformed our culture and politics, didn’t exist four years ago. Four years from now, it’s entirely possible that some, even many, of the newspapers and magazines covering this campaign won’t exist in their current [...]
Pandora, one of the most phenomenal web companies ever, is at risk of buckling under the weight of the ridiculous internet radio royalty rate hikes recently imposed by SoundExchange. Pandora, powered by its music genome project, serves up music tracks after you enter a single song that you like. It’s amazing technology and a dream [...]
With increasing frequency, seismic shock waves have been reverberating through the media world, grabbing headlines and shifting the way people think about the drastically altered landscape. These might, for example, include daily newspapers announcing massive layoffs as they inch closer to bankruptcy, the introduction of technology that allows people to rent, download and watch feature-length [...]