I don't listen to Howard Stern much anymore; I don't have a commute to work. He saved my life on my 72 mile ride from Marin County to San Jose (1994-2000) making me laugh to ignore the awful traffic. Well, that's a story for another day. Today, I listened as I had a short ride to "work" this morning. I didn't realize he was leaving his NY radio station for satellite radio in a matter of weeks. He's already saying goodbye and dreaming of all the cursing he can spew forth in his new satellite home.
Anyway, I wonder how many people will grab his live broadcasts and convert them to MP3 files and put them on their Websites? Countless, I'd say. Will "The King of All Media" need some sort of DRM to protect his new show, or maybe he doesn't care about reusage; the real value is listening live. As someone who does not see the value in satellite radio, I doubt I'll have trouble finding his show on the Web.
What was once a small market of dreamers now is getting serious? I saw a post to the Videobloggers group on Yahoo! pointing me to CNET’s download.com where they are now accepting and showcasing videos, including consumer created content. Today, the site will stream content, but it says soon it will be hosting content. Are we witnessing the return of Richard Hart and CNET TV? (Just kidding)
One of the research themes that Mike and I are working on is the evolution of new "agile" content platforms that compete with and eventually replace traditional broadcast platforms. it looks like Skype (now owned by eBay) wants in on this paradigm shift. I find no fault in Skype's plan. In addition to Skype, social networks, Web over TV and search-based platforms are hot on the heels of the incumbent media players.
Hats off to MobiTV: I've watched TV while I was on the phone, but it's difficult to imagine folks would want to watch TV on their mobile phones. Either they all have better phones than I have (in addition to better vision) or they’re watching something so wonderful they just cannot stay away. Did “Sopranos” start a new season and I missed it?
Happy birthday Google. Did the founders of Google ever imagine that “to google” would become a verb? Note that Google has taken the number of pages it indexes off its home page.
Today's 'cast is a condensed version of conversations Allen and Mike have. Conversations that typically start something like, "Dude, I just saw the coolest thing . . . "
Clipmarks, FilmLoop and others crop up in the conversation.
As brilliant as Don Adams was as Agent 86 on “Get Smart,” I got a huge kick out of his role as the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo in the cartoon of the same name. Just thinking of him with his walrus-sidekick Chumley going through Phineas J. Whoopee’s “way back machine” makes me smile.
I remember when the SJ Merc was so full of ads the carriers could barely toss it to the doorstep. Now, the news is not so great:
The San Jose Mercury News is cutting 60 positions, including 52 newsroom jobs, through buyouts and possible layoffs. "This is a painful but necessary step," says executive editor Susan Goldberg. The cuts come as the entire newspaper industry struggles with declining revenue and circulation.
The final Saturday night at Bank One Ballpark Chase Field showed the D-backs more than played out the season. They came back to win in the late innings, but we were long gone since we arrived early for “Fandemonim,” an end of the year tribute to the fans.
The Diamondbacks set up a series of tables in the 100 and 200 levels where players signed autographs of pictures hats, gloves, shorts, etc… Featured in this clip are Javier Vasquez, Brad Halsey, (manager) Bob Melvin, Brandon Lyon (the one player I did not recognize), Quinton McCracken, Conor Jackson (next season’s Rookie of the Year), Craig Counsell, Shawn Green, Tony Clark and Chad Tracy. We met Tracy briefly at the FBR Open; he was doing a cooking demonstration Yes, it’s a long story
Chicago had its cows. Toronto had its moose. New York had its taxis.San Francisco had its hearts. And...Phoenix has its guitars.
It's GuitarMania, and it's a fund-raiser for Big Brothers & Big Sisters in "the valley." We toured the largest central collection of them in Phoenix, that being in front of America West Arena and by Chase Field (formerly Bank One Ballpark). The fiberglass guitars are all very cool and are some even are made to honor celebrities such as Stevie Nicks, Alice Cooper and Wayne Gretzky . All are done in themes that range from the straighforward to the abstract. The video speaks for itself.
If you haven’t watched “Everybody Loves Chris,” put it on your PVR speed-dial. I mean set your PVR to record each and everyone episode. If the rest are anywhere nearly as good as the opener, it’s a hit. Think a more relevant and edgier version of “The Wonder Years” with Chris Rock as narrator. ‘Nuff said.
I am in the midst of a Macromedia Dreamweaver/Flash class (two full sessions) that will result in some cool things for this site...and a new site as well!
Programming alert: I have been swamped with work plus the weather here in the desert has not been condusive to shooting video. However, over the course of the next few months, I have some great videos in store, including: Arizona Diamondbacks autograph session at (the stadium soon to be formerly known as BOB); dock diving dogs; Arizona Fall League...and more!
I have been scanning the live feeds of the Houston-area TV stations to watch coverage of the pending arrival of (not so lovely) Rita. So far, I only have been able to get the streams from "ABC-13" and KPRC to work. I really wanted to watch KHOU because it's where Dan Rather began his career (not to mention the late Jessica Savitch), but the media player isn't operating properly. It's eerie to see live covrage of folks fleeing the Gulf Coast, but it's also a media marvel. It made me think of the comment from the passenger on board the Jet Blue flight that made an emergency landing yesterday at LAX. When asked if folks were watching live TV coverage (on the plane's in-flight live TV system) of the airplane's peril, she said, "Yes, it was very post-modern."
Ask Jeeves is doing away with the butler. It's ironic. As I told a reporter the other day, Ask Jeeves originally was built around the theme of answering questions. (This was years ago). At that time, the technology wasn't good enough to deliver good answers to individual questions. Today, with the implementation of top-drawer algorithms, Ask Jeeves is about the best search site out there in answering questions. Try it out.
I have seen a lot of things on TV, including Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, but CNN airing live play-by-play of an injured plane making an emergency landing at LAX is a chart topper. Of course, Larry King had to interject his own story about an emergency landing. No, Sandy Koufax and Calvin Klein were not with him at the time. And no, they were not eating at Duke Zieberts.
Lucky us, the b**ch is back. Here's hoping she bombs. Sadly, this is a nation of TV viewers who enjoy watching car wrecks (like Bobby and Whitney), so no doubt Martha will soar in the ratings. Ugh!
I am missing something. I truly think that Associated Press’ new asap service is quite interesting, but my concern is that newspaper clients won’t understand how best to exploit/implement the product. Like other AP products, it’s a mix of content that is put in the hands of newspaper editors to use at their discretion as part of their mix. Certainly, editors have decades of experience on using AP-generated pictures, stories, features, etc…
I wonder (out loud) is there a “suggested uses” of asap that come with the product? No two papers are organized in the same fashion regarding their online products. Take my word for it. For some folks in the online newspaper world, the creative ideas will flow on how best to exploit asap…for others, well, they will be clueless.
This raises the issue of whether AP ever will decide to offer asap directly to the younger readers for whom this product is targeted. At that point, the AP business model changes and it becomes a competitor to the market it has been serving for seemingly forever.
In speaking with some newspaper folks yesterday, it came to my attention that Craiglists is having an impact on newspaper classifieds, but only in certain categories (debunking the notion of the commentary linked to this posting). It appears that where Craigslist shines is in "lower value" categories where products are relatively lower priced. It's possible that higher-priced items still do better in newspaper ads than on Craigslist.
Maybe newspapers can stop their fear and loathing and look more carefully at their classified ad sweet spot.
After turning Eddie Albert over in his grave with a nasty rendition of the theme from 'Green Acres" on the Emmy Awards, Trump now thinks he's a media mogul:
Donald Trump and Warner Music Group are entering a wide-ranging deal to launch Trump Mobile, a suite of products that includes ringtones, video ringtones and Trump wallpaper for cellphone screens. Says Trump: "Like everything I do, these products will be bold and innovative."
New on our PVR speed-dial: BBC America's Holiday Showdown. Two British families each pick their favorite vacation hotspot and the other family has to go along and "enjoy." Last week, one family chose Cancun while the other chose to do missionary work in Africa. This week's (which we haven't yet viewed) has the combo of Las Vegas and Yellowstone National Park. The chubby little kid of the Vegas-loving family declares (in the preview) "Anyone who doesn't just love Vegas is...stupid!"
In my first pass through the new Saturday edition of The Wall Street Journal, I have nothing bad to say. On the other hand, I have nothing all the wonderful to say either. I like it, but there’s nothing that seems that different than its Friday edition which has a heavy accent on lifestyle content.
Saturdays are a tough day for newspapers. Over the years, dailies have tried some innovative features to make the Saturday edition stand out. My first newspaper, The Allentown Morning Call used to have a tabloid Saturday edition called The Weekender (maybe they still do). Anyway, it was loaded with arts and entertainment content, including detailed listings. It leads you to believe that a national newspaper, without local content, has its challenges in producing a Saturday edition.. Maybe it’s why USA Today doesn’t have a Saturday edition?
Well, I wish the WSJ luck. I am a diehard reader of “the daily diary of the America Dream.” Saturdays, perhaps I’d rather relax than dream.
With more spectrum space (thanks to multicasting), one can only speculate as to what programming CBS will squeeze into its new digital channels. Some thoughts:
CSI: Toledo
48 Minutes (the Canadian version of 60 Minutes.. do the math)
Canadian Football League game of the week (Go Bluebombers!)
It's an end-of-the-week grab-bag. (A marketing person would refer to it as a "synopsis of important industry events." Somebody else, like my mother, might label this 'cast nothing but garden variety rumor mongering.)
In any event, Allen and Mike share their recommendations on how Google could spend the $4 billion they just raised in their secondary offering. Allen muses on the rumors about Microsoft and AOL. Mike muses more about the Future of Music Summit in D.C.
Word's out -- I mean even the WSJ had a story today -- that the latest version of iTunes, 5.0, is letting consumers post video podcasts that, in most cases, can be viewed from the little window in which iTunes typically displays the cover art of the CD/album containing whatever song is currently playing in iTunes. Modesty might prevent Allen from saying so, but I'm happy to point out that Allen and some other podcasters discovered iTunes "secret videopodcast" capabilities in the previous version, 4.9, about a month ago.
One can subscribe but you cannot view all the videocasts in the window within iTunes where album art or music videos display. This probably has something to do with the way the videopodcaster is creating their XML feeds. For those that don't launch within iTunes, for one can view them in Quicktime by calling them up from the iTunes folder. (I had to do this to view the videopodcast cited in the WSJ story.)
Given the frenzied rush by the media industry and technology companies to find some advantage in the burgeoning ecology of consumer-generated content, this move is another interesting play by Apple. Can Apple do for videopodcasts what they did for podcasts? How will they handle the inevitable posting of some copyrighted content?
As the Internet emerges as a broadcast medium for television, the frightening notion for programming executives is in the fact that the marketplace will quickly and fairly decide what shows live and what shows die. The TV world is used to living in a world of planned obsolesce in which every fall new shows emerge only to be axed within a few weeks. It's absurd how poorly programming execs misread the public's entertainment tatses. In any other business, such a win-loss ratio could never be tolerated; in TV, it’s been a way of live. With democratization of the process (consumers as tastemakers and networks), the TV world will be forced to be efficient and more in touch with the consumer’s tastes. It’s about time.
I think it’s great that MLB has hooked up with ESPN for a long-term contract. No other network—cable or otherwise—has done a better job with baseball coverage (live games, highlight shows, etc...) than ESPN.
It leads you to wonder what ESPN has in store for MLB over the next several years…beyond the TV screen, that is. Will ESPN broadcast games to mobile phones? Will ESPN broadcast games to the PC via the ESPN 360 widget? Will ESPN brew some sort of interactive experience where fans can interact via IM during games (hence more oomph behind the open IM platform)…at the same time will it build some sort of baseball “social network” that allows fans to build personal sites and communicate ala Myspace?
All of these are possibilities as is the notion the network will help MLB usher the game into additional foreign markets. I look to ESPN to be innovative and not afraid to try and fail. It’s a great marriage.
The 157-year-old Associated Press will debut a newswire aimed at younger readers next Monday.
Ted Anthony, the editor of "asap," said a new staff of 20 journalists will offer original articles and "experiences" in multimedia formats including audio, video and blogs to reach 18- to 34-year-olds, the New York Times reported.
Anthony cautioned that the premium service, most likely to be used on newspapers' online editions, will not be an "alternative newswire." He said focus-group research has shown young readers want a sophisticated view of the world and want to be engaged, the Times added.
As more companies take to the Web to launch new musical talent (including the bands themselves), there will be an even greater need for the tools of searching, sharing and discovery.
Clear Channel Communications on Tuesday is expected to launch an online service offering hundreds of songs and music videos from new and unsigned artists as part of a larger foray onto the Web.
The largest U.S. radio conglomerate, which owns about 1,200 radio stations across the country, also has a deal with GarageBand.com, a site for new musicians, to boost access to new artists material.
At launch, the service, called NEW!, will feature nearly 100 emerging artists from music labels including Atlantic, Capitol, Columbia Warner Bros, and Def Jam, along with unsigned acts every 90 days.
About 16 featured artists will have a home video, five songs and a link to the artists' web site featured on any number of Clear Channel's local radio station web sites.
Fifty GarageBand.com artists will also have five songs, a photo and artists information on Clear Channel's sites.
Live from The Future of Music Policy Summit in Washington, D.C., Mike provides some insight into what’s on the mind of thought leaders in the area of copyright protection, legal sharing and other related topics. Joining us today is special guest Derek Slater, a student fellow with the BerkmanCenter, who is on a panel with Mike on Sept. 13.
Hey, I am the first to slam the telcos (aka former Baby Bells), but I have to say, BellSouth gets huge props for this:
Evacuees to the Houston Astrodome and surrounding ReliantCenter facilities will be receiving an important New Orleans product – their local editions of The Real Yellow Pages® from BellSouth.
With the thousands of evacuees who are temporarily located at the Astrodome and surrounding Reliant Centers, BellSouth is having directories delivered to assist evacuees in reaching family, businesses and important resources prior to returning to the New Orleans area.
“The evacuees located in the Houston area are BellSouth customers, neighbors and family.We hope having a local resource with important numbers including insurance companies, schools and other and resources will be of great assistance to all evacuees,” said Ike Harris, President of BellSouth Advertising & Publishing Corporation.
Approximately 900 directories are scheduled to be delivered on Monday, September 12.Evacuees who have already found housing in the Houston area, but still want a copy of their local directory can go online to www.realpageslive.com and access any of the more than 500 BellSouth directories, or they can call (800) 422-1955, provide their Louisiana home telephone number and ask for a copy of their local directory.
Over the next few weeks, BellSouth will work with SBC Communications to provide directories to other centers located in Texas and neighboring states hosting Hurricane Katrina Evacuees.
Pretty cool stuff, but it makes me miss "The World's Most Dangerous Places" with Robert Young Pelton. His interview with Ahmad Shah Massoud is one of TV's greatest moments. The book (which I own) is available on Amazon.
From 1980-1987, I had the dream job of writing a weekly sports broadcasting column at The Everett Herald. In addition to taking potshots at local sportscasting figures, I also had the privilege of interviewing some of the top national sportscatsers (as well as up and comers such as Bob Costas and Chris Berman). Among the nicest and most professional of the big guys was Chris Schenkel, a classy ABC sports stalwart. I remember speaking with him on the phone for an hour from his home in Indiana. Schenkel was an icon from the ABC Wide World of Sports days and an era without slomotion instant replays and myriad camera angles. It was an era when economy of language that bristled with insight was far more important that hubbub about team squabbles and police blotter activities. Schenkel will be missed.
Mike and I were talking last night about the media coverage of Katrina. TV and the media in general is in uncharted territory and coming up with insight about the role of the media is difficult because of the dynamic nature of the events. While we mull over our commentary, look at these remarks:
“This is a basic crisis communications principle: When you are dealing in a crisis situation, people want to look, see and feel that some type of leadership is being projected," said Chris Lehane, a Democratic communications consultant.
"There is a void, and people are looking for someone to fill that void," he added. "In the modern media age when most people get their information through television images, it is important to physically show leadership."
Will UK's digital creators come out of the woodwork for this? It's going to be interesting to watch to see how UK digital media fans flock -- or don't -- to the BBC's Creative Archive license.
Couldn't think of a better way to kick it off than announcing a contest for the best music video using the archive's video stock.
I just don’t see the match between eBay and Skype. The other players who recently jumped into the VOIP game—Yahoo!, MSN, etc..—have fully fledged consumer communications platforms which include email (with a lot of storage), Instant Messaging and voice chat. eBay has none of those vital ingredients. In addition, there is no social network platform or blogging platform upon which it can build.
Honestly, I think a company such as Myspace or Friendster is a more viable candidate to buy a VOIP company. I doubt it’s in Myspace’s future and I doubt Friendster has that kind of money. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
There’s a new fantasy sports game about to hit the market in mid-September that takes a novel approach to this explosive market. Protrade uses a stock market/commodity market metaphor in which players are given a base price (determined by market value) that changes dynamically based on on-field activity. You have to see it to understand it but also be wowed by its ease of use. For example, a running back’s value goes up (or down) in real time after he picks up yardage. In fact, he gets a bigger value boost if he’s in a crucial part of the field based on his team’s likelihood of scoring. Pretty cool, huh?
Protrade will start off with the NFL in its launch, followed by plans to replicate its model with the NBA and MLB. I’d say that golf also is a likely target.. Wonder if you can put a value on a mulligan.
If you thought I was joking about the new “fall season,” I wasn’t. Here’s more evidence that an increasing number of programs will launch on the Web. Now, these programs will migrate to old-fashioned TV, but (for the time being) they will use the viral power of the Web to create marketing buzz. At some point, however, they will remain on the Web as the primary (and most economically efficient) delivery network.
In the midst of the plight facing our nation, I found great humor in the Fall Preview issue of everyone’s favorite TV weekly. I hung up the keyboard as a newspaper TV critic more than 15 years ago, but I watch with great amusement as the roster of new shows makes its way to the consumer each Fall. This year is a special one. No, not in programming, but in the rapid countdown to oblivion facing commercial TV, and the end of a business that perpetuates itself with planned obsolescence.
As I leaf through the guide, I note the return of Angie Harmon and Holly Robinson Peete. Both are/were married to pro football players, now well past their prime. The football players, that is. I never was clear why Harmon left “Law and Order,” but she’s back and NBC has her. Peete is on UPN on a show about wingwomen. Seriously. Those are women who take guys out on dates in an effort for them (the guys, that is) to meet other women. Difficult to explain, but I did see wingwomen as a theme on a “CSI Miami” episode. TV can be educational.
Michael Rappaport who was in a bunch of Woody Allen movies and the underrated film, “Beautiful Girls,” as well as “CopLand,” is in a show called “The War at Home.” Bow wow. There’s also a show called “Kitchen Confidential,” based on the book of the same name. The book was written by Anthony Bourdain (a fav in our house) of Food TV and Travel Channel fame. Sadly, the show is a wobbler, probably only marginally better than Emeril’s ill-fated sitcom.
Neil Patrick Harris, who was a teen star as “Doogie Howser” has a new sitcom called “How I Met Your Mother.” Harris, who was outstanding in “Harold and Kumar go to WhiteCastle”, seemed destined for more outrageous things than a tame comedy. His former Doogie Howser co-star Max Casella was brave enough to step out and take a role on “Sopranos” as a murderous sidekick to Paulie Walnuts. (as well as Tony’s latest driver).
Personally, I am rooting for a new show called “Out of Practice.” It’s on CBS at 9:30 p.m. on Monday (I think that makes it a lead-in to “CSI: Miami”). It stars Henry Winkler who not only is funny, but one of the most level-headed, self-effacing talents in Hollywood. And how can you not love his role as Coach Klein in “Waterboy?” I am hoping he has a hit on his hands.
But what did I know? I panned “Cheers” as the worst TV show on NBC the year it launched. You never can tell.
More grist for the IM mill. My belief is that we will see a number of these independent affinity communities spring up because of the success of myspace.com. I also see that they will use an IM platform based on the open standard (XMPP) that was brought into the public spotlight by Google with its Google Talk program. Will that put pressure on AOL, Yahoo! and MSN to open up their IM clients?
To me, Bob Denver's role as the '60s hipster/beatnik Maynard G Krebbs in "(The Many Loves of) Dobie Gillis" trumps anything he did on "Gilligan's Island." Denver will be missed, but will live on for my children's children in reruns.
Check the archives. Mike and I 'casted on this very topic earlier this year!
San Francisco Giants fans can now sit at SBC Park and watch both the play on the field and other games at the same time on their laptop computers..Recently, the Giants spent $1.25 million to upgrade the Nortel equipment. Now fans will have access to an even higher speed wireless fidelity network, over 802.11b/g, where they can watch live video streams of other baseball games, over MLB TV, on their laptops. Fans also can use the Internet to watch local games that are blacked out on TV. The video is streamed to the Giants from Major League Baseball's servers. The Giants then stream it to their fans via Hewlett-Packard servers at the park. The Giants are only offering baseball games from the MLB over the park's network
Unless my memory is shot, I remember Mike and I doing a MADCast on the topic of buying content from vending machines...or was it newspaper kiosks? Same idea, but it looks like it's in play in Ireland.
My wife and I have been anxious to donate household goods such as toiletries and clothing to the hurricane survivors who now are living at the Phoenix Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum (aka The Madhouse on McDowell, former home of the Phoenix Suns). Showing the power of the Web’s ability to virally get the word out, we heard via email from one of our fellow District 7 Democrats that the local Air America affiliate, KKXT, was accepting new household goods. And so, we were on our way. Believe me, it's just the start! There were lots of people donating goods at the radio station, all of whom heard through the Web--the greatest agent for getting the word out.
Wherein Allen and Mike try to understand the effect of Katrina on the NO media. Will papers make a permanent jump to all digital -- or primarily digital -- by necessity?
We had The Wiener Dog Nationals circled on our calendar. Held at the Phoenix Greyhound Park (third annual), it’s an event in which dachshunds compete in “races” to benefit Arizona Adopt a Greyhound. Last year, I had a lot of pictures on a former blog, but tonight, the videos will do it even greater justice. It’s fun to watch these crazy legged little animals run their hearts out.
We were introduced to the event last year when my wife met the owner of Squirt (her name is J.D. Ecker) outside a supermarket. She was raising money for her guy to race and that led us to head down to the park. In this video montage, Squirt is the sweet dachshund who is wearing a hot dog bun. He’s difficult to miss.
The timing was a little off as the monsoon rains came shortly after the first heat. The races are interspersed throughout the night between the greyhound heats. I will not watch the “real” dog races; the concept gives me the willies
I put all the factors together: he has a home in Scottsdale; he played college baseball here; it’s nice and warm; his team is playing here. Maybe, just maybe, Barry Bonds was warming up (so to speak) in the Phoenix area to come back and play for the San Francisco Giants in the final weeks of the season.
This morning, we went on the hunt for Barry Bonds.
I wonder—was I better off in the ‘60s when I could see in a minute-by-minute sequence the horrors of Vietnam and the frightening inner-city turmoil of race riots across the nation? I saw Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite and their peers serve me filtered casualty reports. I saw those flags behind Dan Rather list the number of dead with surrealistic body counts; when our numbers were less than the other guys, I felt good. But I was 10 and our TV has three channels. There was no Web. For that matter, there were no computers. In fact, it took a minute for my family’s black & white TV to warm up. Were those the days?
Or, is it today, where I have three PCs running as well as two TVs, one playing inside one of my PCs. I got to blogs to see first hand accounts—pictures and stories. I see unfiltered news and pictures and videos from the front lines. I see some guy on CNN proclaim it’s darned near the end of the world. If I were 10 years old today, what would I be thinking?
I have mostly applause for the media coverage of Hurricane Katrina; it’s been fairly honest and through, although I believe the networks must label LIVE TV shots from looped shots. I saw that guy being carried away in a bucket by a helicopter 100 times yesterday. Was it live, or Memorex ®? The TV-Web fusion creates enough of a confusion of place and time; we need our media to be accurate in its labeling.
Lastly, I want the Times-Picayune, the print voice of New Orleans to use technology to create a digital newspaper. They need to use Extensis’ Deja-Vu technology or Zinio to get a “newspaper” put together without a printing press. It would help add context to the outpouring of soul-less content flooding the channel.
I couldn’t help but notice this piece on Rachel Ray and her work as a magazine goddess. It says she’s now turning into a magazine know-it-all after having some modest success as a TV host on cable. Yikes, what is it with these semi-divas?
I noticed, when watching the first episode of her new show last Friday on Food TV, that Ray has really changed. What made her appealing on $40 a Day and 30 Minute Meals was that she was disarming and somewhat self-effacing. Now, she appears so full of herself, her accessibility and universal appeal is gone. She is the network’s next Emeril, a pseudo food star with no real game. Thank heavens for Alton Brown.
More evidence in the trend we've been talking about for a few years: newspapers will be forced to do the same amount of work (or more) with less resources. Some challenge!
Newsday Expected to Cut Jobs
Newsday expects to launch a new round of job cuts because of lower circulation, some employees of the newspaper say they were told Wednesday. The cuts would include newsroom staff and are expected to especially impact the New York edition of the Long Island-based paper
WashingtonPost.com is entering a deal with blog search engine Technorati that will make it easy for readers to find blog entries about Post stories. Technorati already has similar deals with Salon.com and Newsweek.com, but WashingtonPost.com marks its first newspaper partnership.
