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A personal walk through 41 years of newspapering
Paul Steiger’s been in journalism a wee bit longer than I have and his reflections on how newspapers have changed in 41 years is a fascinating read. Steiger is stepping down as managing editor of the Wall Street Journal. His history of the last four decades of the newspaper industry might be summed up by this…
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We’re all crooks and cheats
A couple of quotes from a Washington Post story: The [recording] industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer. Copying a song you bought is “a nice way of saying ‘steals just one copy,’” So ripping a CD you bought to put…
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Mirror, mirror on the …
On Thursday I hung out at the family business in North Carolina for a short while. It’s a custom injection molder (makes plastic stuff). As such, it makes parts and assembles products for a number of different customers. One of the more unusual products (at least for me) they have been making are the housings…