Pogue returned to find that his car had been vandalized at the Greens Farms Railroad Station. According the personal blog of Dan Woog, a Westport News columnist, all of the tires, wheels and rims were swiped overnight from Pogue’s Honda Fit left in the rail depot’s parking lot. But the subcompact was still jacked up where the wheel thieves had left it.
Tech writer David Pogue, wife, charged in Westport dispute - Westport News
Mr. Kravis and his partners formed K-III Holdings in 1989 to acquire print media assets. Its first deal was the purchase of a book club division from Macmillan and other assets for $310 million. A couple of years later, it paid $600 million for nine magazine titles from the News Corporation, including New York and Seventeen.
The company went public in 1995, with K.K.R. retaining majority control. In 1997, K-III changed its named to the sexier Primedia. (“K-III’s a horrible name,” said the late William Reilly, Primedia’s chief executive at the time.) Then, just as the dot-com bubble was inflating, Primedia implemented an aggressive web strategy. Under the direction of Thomas S. Rogers, a high-profile media executive brought in by K.K.R., Primedia paid $690 million for About.com in the fall of 2000. The next year, it spent $515 million on the American holdings of magazine publisher Emap, whose titles included Motor Trend and Teen.
After 22 Years — 22 Years! — K.K.R. Is Exiting Primedia - NYTimes.com
The curious fact about venturesome consumption is that Americans tend to keep doing it, even in tough times. The P.C. was introduced during the recession of 1981-82. The iPod débuted when we were still recovering from the bursting of the dot-com bubble. Most striking, according to an extraordinary new book by the economic historian Alexander Field, American businesses in the heart of the Great Depression continued opening R. & D. labs and putting money into productivity-enhancing technologies, all of which laid the groundwork for the postwar boom. True, businesses did clamp down on spending in 2008, but for the past two years they’ve been investing heavily in information technology, while consumers, who have supposedly rediscovered the virtues of frugality, are snapping up smartphones and iPads. The venturesome-consumption habit, it seems, is hard to kick. And that’s good news, since they also serve who only shop and buy.
Ms. Pratt: There’s a part of the site called Jane’s Phone, where people can go in and look at my text messages and stuff like that. I want people to be able to hear my voicemail too, but we can’t do that at this point — I think it’s a legal thing. I would like people to actually be able to access everything.
Love and Kisses, From Jane Pratt’s New Website | Digital - Advertising Age
The biggest flaw in the report by far is the continued focus on preventing journalists from being human, or from showing that they have opinions. This is a holdover from the days when “objectivity” was the highest goal that a journalist could aspire to — days that editors like New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller apparently still cling to — but there is an argument to be made that transparency and accountability to one’s readers is far more important than maintaining some theoretical Potemkin village of objectivity. And it might just produce better journalism too.
News Editors Still Don’t Want Journalists to Be Human: Tech News and Analysis «
At its core, the perfect music service would offer every song, ever made, wherever you want to listen to it, whenever you want to listen to it. Rdio and MOG and Rhapsody and Zune know this. Unfortunately, they can’t offer it yet. And it’s not happening anytime soon, because that just isn’t a profitable model. Someday, though, the music library will be the least of a service’s worries.
There was no reason for me to do this other than that I could. The image came to me on a blue floppy that I purchased for $4.00 from the Downingtown, Pennyslvania, users group meeting. In case you are young, Bruce Willis was only just getting famous and even had an album of bad music, and Cybil Shepherd owned his detective agency, and thus was the TV show Moonlighting born, and our entire nation became tense and even angry waiting for Bruce to give Cybil a weenus. I enjoyed watching even though it was beyond me, even though it featured a Macintosh computer, and once, in a guest role, Jeff Jarvis.
In response to a flap about using meat in their pics, the editors of VegNews released this statement: “I do want to apologize to the vegetarian and vegan community for our oversight, we’re going to make an effort to publish nothing but vegan photography.”
I kinda like that it’s “make an effort” versus “guaranteeing” that no t-bones will sneak in.
PAUSE: Space Invader chair is minimal, menacing.
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