Online Media Daily is reporting a deceleration of the online ad market – which is not to say that it’s not still growing, but that it's not growing at the rate that it was. Hardly surprising considering the declines in the rest of the economy. According to TNS MI Senior Vice President-Research Jon Swallen, said that [...]
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Newspaper Death Watch has an hour-long audio interview with John Yemma, the new editor at the Christian Science Monitor. Yemma's goal is to make the news gathering organization self-sustaining without giving up the deep think pieces for which it's known (and without relying on subsidies from the church). Is this is complicated or helped [...]
Ad Age writer Peter Blackshaw says Spanish-language content is lacking on the Internet – marketers are not taking advantage of a growing demographic. "I'm not just talking about the global brand websites dedicated to Mexico or Spain, but rather the U.S.-based sites with growing numbers of Spanish-dominant households in their targets. Now, I'm not suggesting [...]
Interesting post at Webmasterworld.com forums — cites a Google blog post saying not to do rewrite dynamic URLs to optimize for searchbecause: "While static URLs might have a slight advantage in terms of clickthrough rates because users can easily read the urls, the decision to use database-driven websites does not imply a significant disadvantage in [...]
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A neighbor yells at kids for climbing a tree in front of their own house. Then after the mother refuses to make them stop, the neighbor calls the police. Sheesh. Makes me happy to have always had great luck in neighbors. The ones with kids have known first hand the fine line between protecting [...]
The bluest sky Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden We hiked Uncanoonuc with the kids. Now I’m lying on my back on a rock at the summit while the kids gambol about the alpine meadow. The sky is as blue as a painted ceiling. Sweet.
Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 describes how he believes news sites can avoid being "on the wrong end of the value chain" and be both "a pass-through content publisher and a starting point aggregator." He writes: "I read NYTimes.come every day, but I only visit it once or twice a day, because unless there is breaking news, the homepage doesn’t [...]
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For the record, brilliant. And yes, there is meaning in the universe. Primer on the deeply flawed philosophy of materialism here.
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I don't talk much politics here, and am not really starting now, but couldn't resist posting a few links about this election season's running candidate. WSJ Magazine will have a profile of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose parents were marathoners and cross-country coaches, and who has been a lifelong runner herself. WSJ reports: "She was [...]
Closing in on my first marathon (Oct, 5), waiting to see how all of these many months of training and work come together, I was surprised to find myself feeling edgy about it, a bit nervous, off kilter somehow. Some runs that should have felt easy felt hard, some that should have felt hard felt… [...]
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