A new new year’s song: I don’t know about you. I’m tired of there being only one song associated with New Years Eve. It’s not great, but here’s a new one, Next Year Baby, by Jamie Cullum. I give it an 85. It has a good beat and you can dance to it. Happy New Year!

“I am a drunk lawmaker”: Starting tomorrow, in Tennessee when one is convicted of drunk driving for the first time, he or she will be required to do 24 hours of roadside cleanup while wearing an orange vest emblazoned with the phrase “I am a Drunk Driver.”

Technorati Tags: nashville

Happy Hogmanay: I don’t know about you, but I think Hogmanay needs to become more commercialized. Perhaps something to do with using gift cards received during the previous year. We could all start saying: Happy Hogmanay, what’d you get with that Target gift card I gave you? And how come there aren’t more Hogmanay songs (ITMS link)?

Technorati Tags: humor

Stephen Baker asks: If a magazine is cutting staffers, can it afford to increase blogging? Great question that, no doubt, will be one of 2006′ most asked questions around magazine publishing companies.
Quote:

“I hear threads of this debate at BusinessWeek: Just three weeks ago we had layoffs, and yet our blogging contingent continues to grow. One line of thinking asks, Why does a magazine need more than one blog?

Technorati Tags: blogging, magazines