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Getting the story
Two good tales of “getting the story” from over the weekend. Terry Morrow tells in his blog how he got to talk to local-boy-turned-superstar-country-singer Kenny Chesney — and no other media did — during his low-profile show show at a local nightclub on “the Strip” on Sunday night. After 20 years as a reporter, my…
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The end of email?
Hardly! There is a lot of concern — read opposition in many corners — to a plan by AOL and Yahoo to charge marketers who send bulk emails, be it special offers from L.L. Bean, Target or Buy.com that you might have asked for … or all those you didn’t want to get.
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Lately, I’ve been listening too …
I recently bought a couple R.L. Burnside CDs: “Burnside on Burnside” and “Wish I was in Heaven Sitting Down.” Of the two, I like “Burnside on Burnside” the best. It’s a live concert recorded in January 2001 in San Francisco and Portland, Ore.