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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Death Cab For Newspapers
From our Newspaper Revenue Wars desk . . . Wall Street Journal: Papers Put Faith in Paywalls As more newspapers close the door on free access to their websites, some publishers are still waiting for paying customers to pour in. … Continue reading
Small World (Edward R. Murrow, Maria Callas, And The Bottle Of Brandy)
Wall Street Journal critic Terry Teachout has a lively blog (About Last Night) at ArtsJournal.com, and here’s his latest offering: Maria Callas and Sir Thomas Beecham chat with Edward R. Murrow in 1959 on the CBS program Small World. Callas is … Continue reading
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Tagged About Last Night, ArtsJournal, Maria Callas, Sir Thomas Beecham, Small World, Terry Teachout
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Online Track ADtack!
You have no idea how much you’re being stalked on the Internet. But the Atlantic does. From Alexis Madrigal’s piece in the Atlantic’s February edition: I’m Being Followed: How Google—and 104 Other Companies—Are Tracking Me on the Web This morning, if you … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexis Madrigal, Collusion, Google, Huffington Post, Microsoft, Mozilla, New York Times, Sneak ADtack, The Atlantic
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Mitt Romney: The Son Richard Nixon Never Had
From our Acid Flashback desk: First there was this item from Politico’s Playbook: –ROMNEY TO PUSH SOFTER SIDE IN DAYS AHEAD – WSJ A4, “Romney Taps Town-Hall Connection: Public Forums Will Play Bigger Role in Shift to Show Candidate at … Continue reading
So Is This The “Twitter Election” Or Not?
From our We Don’t Have a Clue desk: Lots of conflicting stories about social media’s influence on the 2012 presidential bakeoff. Consider these headlines collected by the hardworking staff in just in the past week. From Time’s Swampland blog: Campaign … Continue reading
Memo to Cartier: The Leopard Doesn’t Change Its (TV) Spots
The hardworking staff has already noted the new Cartier commercial that clocks in at epic 3:31, making it the Nicholas Nickleby of TV spots. Epic in the making as well, according to this press release at HollywoodNews.com (tip o’ the pixel to Zap2It ): … Continue reading
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Tagged Cartier, Hollywood News, L'Odyssée, leopard, Panther, Zap2It
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L’Adyssée De Cartier
So the Missus and I were watching CBS’s The Good Wife last night when this ad popped up: The spot ran three and a half minutes but felt like an eternity, which is exactly the image Cartier is going for. … Continue reading
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Tagged Cartier, CBS, L'Adyssée, L'Odyssée, The Good Wife, YouTuber
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Dead Blogging The Ron Rosenstock Exhibition At The Worcester Art Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled off to the Worcester Art Museum on Sunday to hear Anthony Amore’s lecture Stealing Rembrandts in Massachusetts: The Three Most Important Art Thefts in American History, and what do you know – we stumbled … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Amore, Ron Rosenstock, Stealing Rembrandts, Worcester Art Museum
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The 99% vs. The 1¢
Bank of America wants to add checking fees to its already tight-fisted customer relations. From the Chicago Tribune: Bank of America, the nation’s second-largest bank with more than 55 million customers, is planning to tack on a monthly fee for … Continue reading
Newt Gingrich: A Gasbag Of Citgoesque Proportions
Former House Speaker and current GOP presidential neverbe Newt Gingrich (R-Callista) has always been a popcorn machine of bad ideas, but his latest fraud upon the electorate really sets new standards of incredulity. From MSNBC’s First Read: The Gingrich campaign … Continue reading
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Tagged $2.50 gas, GOP presidential neverbe, GTL, Keystone Pipeline, Newt Gingrich, Plato, popcorn machine of bad ideas, Snooki
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Campaign Outsider 