[via Ideas and Trends - Hollywood’s Blurb Search Reaches the Blogosphere - NYTimes.com]
‘But there are fewer and fewer print and television movie critics around. At least 55 movie reviewers have been laid off or re-assigned from newspapers around the country since January 2006, according to a running tally on the Web site of The Salt Lake Tribune.’
Have you missed them? Not me.
Nice piece about two SF Coworking spaces; one of them, The Hat Factory, I founded some years ago. And Eddie Codel is nice enough to namedrop me in the vid. Thanks, Eddie!
Co-Working: Origins and Future (via LifeHackDoc)
an online marketplace for consumers to buy from small businesses, professionals and entrepreneurs
[via Reflections of a Newsosaur: Worst quarter for newspapers: Sales dive $2.6B]
‘In the worst quarter in modern history for American newspapers, advertising sales fell by an unprecedented 28.3% in the first three months of 2009, plunging sales by more than $2.6 billion from the prior year.
Statistics posted without publicity on the website of the Newspaper Association of America show that print ad sales fell by a historic 29.7% to $5.9 billion in the first period of this year and that online sales fell a record 13.4% to $696.3 million.
The worst percentage decline was in the highly profitable classified advertising category. which dived 42.3% to produce slightly less than $1.5 billion in sales.
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The $2.6 billion sales decline in the first period of this year is equal to almost a third of the $7.5 billion that newspaper ad revenues fell in all of 2008. Newspaper ad sales last year fell 16.6% to $37.8 billion, making it by far the worst 12 months in the history of the industry.’
The Pentagon plans to create a new military command for cyberspace, administration officials said Thursday, stepping up preparations by the armed forces to conduct both offensive and defensive computer warfare.
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The innovative Umair Haque unmasks the lack of innovation by saying what most companies are up to is unnovation:
[via Is Your Innovation Really Unnovation? - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org] ‘Unfortunately, much of what our economy produces today isn’t innovative — it’s unnovative. The evidence is hard to dispute: we merely need to note how deep the global decline is, how consistently 20th Century business fails to do stuff that matters — or just how many industries are caught simultaneously in deep crisis.’
‘Gmail’s code reveals an upcoming feature called “magic inbox” or “icebox inbox”, which is likely to prioritize the messages sent by your friends and other contacts you email frequently.’
How about publishing email in a stream? Default would be secret (available only to the recipient, and not visible to others), but I could make private (and share with colleagues, staff, other groups), or simply make public.
