Death by metaphor: According to Editor & Publisher the Cleveland ‘Plain Dealer’ is “killing off” and “pulling the plug on” its Sunday Magazine. Why the killing and plug-pulling? Rising expenses and stagnating economy, according to the newspaper.
The magazine was first published on June 29, 1919. So, the magazine made it through the Great Depression and a few wars and through that period in the 1970s when the word “Cleveland” was synonymous with “stagnating economy,” but today’s “economy” is the reason the newspaper is shutting down the magazine?
Why don’t they say, “We’re losing money on the newspaper so we decided to kill the magazine.” If they really want to cut expenses, here’s my suggestion: Do away with the daily newspaper (except, maybe the sports section) and keep the Sunday magazine.
Why God allowed Flash to be invented: I’ll leave it to the technolosophers (and people who, unlike me, actually care to debate this topic) to decide whether or not Flash-based applications are Web 2.0ish enough to gain admittance into the club or earn a place on the map.
As for me, all those years of clicking past really bad Flash animations on the front pages of marketing firm websites led me to conclude Flash should have never made it out of Web.beta.
Then, I saw Ultimate Flash Face, a sort of, do-it-yourself forensic artist tool-toy-time-waster. Even though I don’t know when it was created or by whom and am merely assuming it is Flash (however, with a name like Flash Face, it would be a shame if it isn’t), I give it a Web 2.97 for fun and since you can save and share a face you “draw,” I guess it passes the “social” portion of the Web 2.0 litmus test.
I wonder if marketing firms will rush to replace those Flash animations on their website front pages with stuff like this in order to claim they are Web 2.0 savvy.
(via: Coudal Partners)
Matt’s idea for finding new music: Matt McAlister suggests a way he’d like for “letting obsessed music lovers create recommendations” for him: “Show me the Top 5 music freaks in my Top 5 favorite genres. Then give me the Top 5 most-listened to tracks amongst their followers. Throw in X random tracks per 100. Flag the ones my friends like for context. Readjust monthly. Now that would be a kick ass music station to listen to.”
Flashback: If you scroll down through this post I made before Apple added podcasts to iTunes, you can read how I suggested that certain podcasters could become purchasing agents for people like me who would trust them to discover the music I’d like, but don’t have time to find.
Weather question: I have a question for those Nashville weather bloggers, or perhaps it’s one for those Nashville-based religious publishing bloggers.
If it’s this hot in November, is it a sign of the Apocalypse?
Hot cars: What are the most stolen cars in your state? In my state, it’s a 15-year-old Toyota Camry.
(via: ResourceShelf.com)
What Dave Winer said: (Regarding how he obtained and posted the full-text Gates & Ozzie e-mails that some old-school media had obtained and were merely “reporting.”) “One thing about MS culture, even after all these years, there’s a core inside that’s hard, it’s willing to change in order to win. Good for them.”
(flashback: rexblog post from last night.)
