I’m cleaning out my timemagazine.com e-mail inbox one last time. One thing that this exercise is driving home to me is that, after more than 13 years at effectively the same e-mail address (e-mails addressed to my old fortunemail.com address still land in my inbox), a journalist gets an insane amount of PR spam. And while I can’t work up …
Technology & Media
Paywall Day retread: How Achewood is killing the American newspaper
In honor of the NYT’s big announcement today, today’s repurposed post (from January 2007) is about newspapers:
In his paean to Webcomic Achewood the other day, my fellow time.com blogger Lev Grossman mentioned in passing that “I always loved comic strips—that was the sole reason my family ever bought the Boston Globe growing up.”
That
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A brief moment of Jeff-Zucker-related-Schadenfreude
So it’s December 1991. I’m 27 years old, and working as a reporter in the Montgomery bureau of The Birmingham News. One Monday morning, I pick up a New York Times—I think from the rack on South Decatur Street a couple blocks from my apartment. There’s a story in it about the new executive producer of the Today show, this prematurely …
Why government search engines can’t handle misspellings
In my post Thursday on the failure to connect the dots pointing to the underpants bomber (can dots point?), I declared without offering any evidence that:
Any halfway affluent individual can assemble a better set of communication devices and networks on her own than she’d ever get from the IT department of a large corporation (or large
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Time to revisit the terrorism futures market?
I’ve already shared Sam Savage’s take on the failure to keep the underpants bomber from getting on that plane to Detroit: that it’s just really really really hard to identify a vanishingly small segment of the population and keep them off airplanes without mistakenly preventing scads of harmless people from boarding. But there are other …
How do you get both equity and prosperity?
Here’s Jim Manzi (no, not that one; this one), writing in National Affairs (via Michael Pettis) on the question, addressed here a couple of days ago, of balancing economic security with economic dynamism:
Conservatives have …, as a rhetorical and political strategy, downplayed the problems of cohesion — problems like inequality, wage
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Christmas eve video: Please be patient
My favorite song from last year’s Colbert Christmas show is Colbert’s own “Cold, Cold Christmas.” But I can’t find a video of that. So here’s Feist:
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News about the Curious Capitalist
This just went out on Businesswire. For those who don’t believe in clicking through, it says I’ve got a new job, editorial director of the Harvard Business Review Group. I start Jan. 25, and I’ll still be at TIME and writing this blog through Jan. 22. (I’m pretty sure the blogging over the next month will be a lot better than it has been …
Weekend video: Joseph, better you than me
It’s last year’s Christmas song from the Killers!
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I think this is my favorite of the Killers’ annual seasonal tunes (of which there are now four). “Don’t Shoot Me Santa” is pretty brilliant, and this year’s “¡Happy Birthday, Guadalupe!” is growing on me. But they don’t have Elton …
Weekend video: Happy, joyous Hanukkah
I’m not going to show the video of the new Orrin Hatch Hanukkah song, because that’s just overexposed. Same goes for Adam Sandler, of course. Neil Diamond’s cover of Adam Sandler less so, but I just dunno. Sarah Silverman’s “Give the Jew Girl Toys” is inappropriate for a family blog. My favorite Hanukkah song is the Barenaked Ladies’ …
Weekend video: Hüsker Dü ♥ Mary Tyler Moore
It’s been too long since I posted a music video. No Belgians this time, just some Minneapolis boys singing a Minneapolis song:
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Comcast goes one direction, Time Warner the opposite
Back in February, my employer, Time Warner, announced the completion of its spinoff of Time Warner Cable, the country’s second-biggest cable system operator. Said Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes at the time:
We’re confident that this separation will benefit Time Warner and Time Warner Cable stockholders. Both companies will be better
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