The newspaper suicide pact
I think I’ll remember last week as the moment when I finally knew, with a certainty approaching fatigue, that the newspaper industry – the business and passion that both shaped and warped me over the past 20 years – had chosen ritual suicide. The choice appears grimly reached and irrevocable.
Great article.
(via givemesomethingtoread)
Loving some of the comments as well:
This is an economic paradigm shift in which over sized corporations of all stripes are failing - it’s not just media, it’s finance, it’s auto, it’s agriculture, it’s any industry that has extracted value from a 20th century technology set that allowed (and to some extent encouraged) oligarchies to form and prosper.
What we are witnessing is the slow, painful death of the corporate paradigm. 21st century technologies are atomizing and distributing and empowering at the individual level.
Multinational monster banks are dying - peer to peer micro lending and local currency exchange is growing. Centralized auto manufacturing is dying - a better place and useful mass transit is coming. Factory farms are creating viruses and nutritionally bankrupt foodstuffs - backyard victory gardens and local farmers markets are restoring health.
And, thankfully, Newspapers are dying - Newsgroups are forming.
I’m connected. I’m busy. I’m important. And if this meeting doesn’t hold my interest, I’ve got 10 other things I can do instead.
—Mind Your BlackBerry or Mind Your Manners
The Setup: Jakob Nielsen
My Alienware is disappointingly noisy, even though I paid extra for having it sound-proofed and watercooled.
I learned a lot more than I expected about Jakob Nielsen, usability specialist, from this.
Pi.ckyyyy. Geesh.
ArtJournal - Like, you know, Stephanie Meyer? Get it?
If you can’t read all the text, click through! Never read Twilight series, but I’ve done this with several other series of books. Harry Potter, Wheel of Time, almost everything by L. J. Smith… *sigh*
so I was just driving high and I stopped to let a pinecone cross the road because I thought it was a hedgehog.
—http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/view/46088.
thanks http://onemoretimewithfeeling.tumblr.com/ for pointing out this hidden gem of a site
Sims 3
Bought Sims 3 to pass the time (fever at 38.7 as we speak), thinking I could pass a couple of hours playing with my imaginary carachters… but:
a) it took 40 minutes to install (I think more actually… but I didnt time it)
b) it runs so slow (I got a MacBook 2.4 Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB of RAM, and enough disk space)
c) i couldnt figure out how to edit the clothing on the sim i created
Gave up. Due to a massive headache, and frustration at everything taking about 2 seconds to register.

