Monday, March 14, 2005

Transparency x 2: JR says the N&R is "just days away from launching the new system and redesigned site." But then Lex leaves a comment saying that "just because we've finished all our training does NOT mean that all the templates, etc., we'll be using will be ready to use at that point." 2:38:18 PM    comment []

Matt Williams: "The biggest discussion at Tuesday's City Council meeting may not actually be on the agenda...local organizers of the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project plan to ask the city council for their imprimatur and cooperation." 2:27:52 PM    comment []

One of the blogosphere's best reporters, Josh Marshall, is taking a few days off to get married. Congrats to Josh and best wishes to his bride. Among the writers filling in at Talking Points Memo will be the incomparable Harry Shearer. 2:14:10 PM    comment []

NYT: "Advertising revenue from online sites is booming and, while it accounts for only 2 percent or 3 percent of most newspapers' overall revenues, it is the fastest-growing source of revenue. And newspaper executives are watching anxiously as the number of online readers grows while the number of print readers declines." Some newspapers charge for online access, not for the revenue per se but to drive readers to the print edition. People pay for books and music online, why not news? Maybe because much newspaper content is ephemeral and  fungible. I think REM has the right idea. 8:45:52 AM    comment []

Inside Furniture on "Bragging stances": "People inflate what they pay for furniture, yet deflate what they pay for a car." Whatever happened to not discussing that kind of stuff? 8:32:26 AM    comment []

I've been meaning for the longest time to mention Memeorandum, a blog aggregator keyed to the day's headlines. And now I have. 8:29:37 AM    comment []

I'll be in Chapel Hill on tax day, participating in a symposium on press coverage of elections. Which reminds me, I need to do my taxes -- the ACC tourney and a 70-degree Sunday kept me from doing so this weekend... 8:28:16 AM    comment []

Sally Greene notes that Charlotte Rep. Sue Myrick's blog went quickly from first person to third. 8:23:35 AM    comment []

Chris Nolan on Steven Levy's "where are the women bloggers" article in Newsweek: "When they wonder where the women bloggers are what they're really saying is 'I don’t read any women bloggers.'" Re: Wonkette. She's on my blogroll, which says more about the stasis of my blogroll as I've come to depend on RSS feeds than it does about my interest in Wonkette; I don't read her very much, because I don't think she's got much to say. 8:21:05 AM    comment []

EpiCourier: "I do not know of any toddler that can drive themselves to a fast food restaurant and order their own food." 8:14:03 AM    comment []