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Making the A list
Oh, wow, this book doesn’t come out until February, but it looks like it’d be great. And the “How-to-tell-an-asshole” rule on author Bob Sutton’s blog Work Matters is classic (even if he found it elsewhere): New Rule: The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the asshole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order…
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Reflections of the mirror in the mirror
Local blogger Rich Hailey is back in our newsroom observing and live blogging our coverage of the election. See it here. It’s sort of reminds me of a mirror within a mirror; he’s covering how we’re covering what we’re covering (and now I’m covering his covering …) and all in near real-time. I hope he…
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Faerie Magicks
Interesting take on the Google-newspaper ad deal. In this day and age of declining newspaper fortunes one of the biggest agents of change AWAY from newspapers, that directly has a competitor to newspapers (news.google.com), and that steals away advertising away from newspapers (adwords), is now going BACK to newspapers to sell their ad space (and…