Silicon Alley Insider
The New York Times (NYT) had its worst month to date in November, with advertising revenue dropping a harrowing 21%. This is by far the largest drop on record, and the collapse is now hammering all of the company's properties, including the web site and About.com. The New York Times's business is collapsing, and its cash si (Read More)
: NYT is victim of old stodgy company that is not willing to go radical and adapt to new ways of media. Time to join the revolution of it's the wild west of media jump on. Though I am not sure with the new models and paradigms out there how one is supposed to make money like they have. Get your plot of land and grow your food is what I see.
Submitted by Working Writer:
This Tennessee TVA spill is over 40 times bigger than the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska, if local news accounts are correct. This is a huge environmental disaster of epic proportions, approximately 500 million gallons of nasty black coal ash flowed into tributaries of the Tennessee River - the water supply for Chattanooga T (Read More)
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Colorado media consultant Amy Gahran started an effort to tag Twitter posts with #coalash and she, and now others, are pointing to coverage across the country.
The links below are being drawn from a number of sources. (Read More)
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The residue of millions of tons of coal burning at Kingston Fossil power plant in the Watts Bar Reservoir in Tennessee burst the bounds of the pond in which it was contained, burying as many as 400 acres of land in up to six feet of sludge. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which owns the coal-fired power plant—first op (Read More)
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"Recently, several coworkers pointed out ads to me for fancy-schmancy teleseminars on how brands and media use Twitter. So I checked out the selling points that they promised, and used those topics to create a five-minute read. It’s quick and free, versus the several hours and almost $500 that those teleseminars would’ve co (Read More)
O'Reilly Radar
At the Program For the Future event commemorating the 40th anniversary of Doug Englebart's "mother of all demos" in 1968, I was privileged to hear an inspired rant by Alan Kay about the unwillingness of people to work hard to learn new skills. I'm quoting from memory, so the lines below are not exact, and there's no way I (Read More)