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Stuff You Should See– February 5th through February 11th

9 Studies That the Anti-Vaccination Movement Says Show Links or Bury the Truth – And a few notes on them. I don't understand the Latin parts, but I think the idea here is that these things keep a lot of people from getting really bad diseases, err, alive.

iPhone Is Buzz Compatible While Most Android Phones Aren’t – "Currently there is only an estimated 28% of Android devices in use that are capable of taking full advantage of these services. This is due to the fact that lower Android versions browser does not support HTML5, although the gears requirement is meet". How's that for ironic and frustrating?

Google Buzz in Enterprise – Will Need to Overcome Google Apps Limitations – More on Google Buzz in the Enterprise. This argument against it (for now) makes sense

A Butcher’s Tips for Avoiding Cuts in the Kitchen – We just bought a knife sharpener, and it scares me to have blades that will actually cut things now. Although, a sharp blade is probably safer.

A newspaper starts exiting the Web – Huh?! I guess if you're trying to kill your newspaper, it's better to kill it as quickly as possible instead of letting it suffer.

A “Miss Me” Billboard I Can Get Behind – For realz.

5 Reasons Why Google Buzz Will Fail – Funny!!!!

Consumer debt will hold back spending, holding back economic growth. – Don't be ridiculous. We just have to "get banks lending again". Right.

[ More ] February 12th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Reading |

Another Reason I Love Living Here

Where else are you going to get headlines like this in the newspaper?

Scuffle with son over sandwich meat burns shotgun-packing meth maker

A scuffle over your son with sandwich meat should stand for a head line on its own, but a shotgun-packing meth maker is icing on the cake.

Stay classy East Tennessee. Stay classy.

[ More ] July 17th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Reading |

All Wrong, All Backwards

From Bruce W. Sanford and Bruce D. Brown, a post that (not surprisingly) comes from a newspaper:

It is unrealistic to demand new business models from the press without giving it the legal tools to succeed

Wait…what? No one is “demanding” anything of newspapers. It basically comes down to this–if you want to survive, find a business model that works in the free market. If you can’t do that, you will die.

The only thing I’d demand is that they not use taxpayer dollars or legislative mechanics to get special treatment.

[ More ] May 19th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Reading |

Hey Funky Mama, Save the Newspapers!

I stay away from politics over at Newstechzilla, but I can post stuff like this here, right?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, worried about the fate of The Chronicle and other financially struggling newspapers, urged the Justice Department Monday to consider giving Bay Area papers more leeway to merge or consolidate business operations to stay afloat.

[ More ] March 17th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Reading |

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