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Monthly Archives: December 2008

reasons II

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

2. The culture of newspaper management is a dysfunctional relic of a low-bandwidth, monopoly era. It still hasn’t adapted to the lessons of Web 2.0, it’s generally beholden to a short-term stock price instead of a long-term re-investment strategy and it simply refuses to accept that you can’t expect 20 profit margins in a competitive [...]

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lighter

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

It being the holiday season, and being at Target, we decided to drop $30 on a Lego set, for no reason other than the laser beams attached to their heads. I had no idea Lego had such sense of irony, never mind the inclination to avoid a possible movie tie-in. I built out the kit [...]

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reasons

Monday, December 15, 2008

A while ago Julian sent me this list of reasons why newspapers won’t reinvent news. I’ve elected to give it a little more analysis than I did initially, given a few months recent tenure at a daily newspaper. 1. Newspapers’ core audience still doesn’t want change, but they’re aging and they like a product that [...]

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speed

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Ladies, When you are dining in the company of a gentleman and it seems to you that perhaps he is a bit rushed in the process of ingesting his meal, may I recommend that you take a moment to recall the following: That is all.

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biddy

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Elizabeth “Biddy” Russell was the mother of a trio of childhood friends. They lived down the street in idyllic suburban Westmount. I haven’t seen or spoken to her in at least twenty years. Interpolating from my own memories and the news stories, the eldest two children have faced no small amount of challenge in their [...]

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