Random Notes
Is the Wall Street Journal making itself irrelevant due to its online strategy?
Key Quote:
- Nevertheless, the Journal faces an intractable problem. Because you have to subscribe to access both current news articles and the archive, the Journal is leaving only a faint footprint in cyberspace. As with The New York Times, which insists that readers register to view news and pay $3 per article in the archive, the Journal barely shows up on Google or any other search engine. I googled “Enron” — an issue the Journal covered exhaustively, and which two of its reporters even wrote a book about — and not one article appeared within the first 25 pages (250 results.)
I subscribe to both the online and print versions, but I think this article is largely correct that this way of doing business is largely unsustainable. That being said, if there is one publication who will be able to get away with it in the long term it will be the WSJ.
The Complacency of Howard Stern
Key Quote:
- Clear Channel and Howard Stern have agreed to withdraw lawsuits against each other related to Stern’s ouster from the radio giant’s airwaves because of indecency concerns.
Stern bitched on-air to no end about this whole thing and how Clear Channel was a bunch of pansies who caved to the FCC. In the end mister “I have Principals” has also backed down now that he has signed a huge deal with Sirius Satellite Radio. I guess in one sense, leaving shows his commitment to his principals, but backing down in his lawsuit with the great evil Clear Channel seems kind of soft.
More on Stern heading to satellite here.
I Support the Occupation of Iraq, But I don’t Support the Troops
Key Quote:
- The U.S. went to war in Iraq to remove an evil and dangerous political adversary from power. Now that we have done that, the American troops must remain in Iraq until the country is a fully functioning democracy, able to spark change throughout the entire Middle East. While I find this obvious, there are still a lot of people in our country who fail to grasp it. I support Bush-administration foreign-policy goals, but I stand firmly against the individual men and women on the ground in the Persian Gulf.
Before anyone gets into too big of a hissy fit, this is from the Onion.
It is a flurry of activity at the NBA trading deadline. Webber to 76ers.
I can’t remember a more active season of trading in the NBA at the deadline before. Gary Payton leaves Boston so that Antoine Walker can return. I wonder if Celts fans are happy about that. The 76ers get Chris Webber. How great do they look with AI playing with Chris Webber? Has AI ever had a player this good in the lineup with him? I am going to say no.
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This seems to be one of the better stores online that I have seen for electronics. Reasonable prices, no taxes and free shipping on some stuff.
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