America’s CEO, Bill Clinton
Tina Brown writes about a place I wish I could have been, Bill Clinton’s Global Initiative conference at the Sheraton Hotel in New York last week “Welcome to Planet Clinton, an interconnected world that’s a solar system and a wormhole away from Bush country. Here Shimon Peres and Oprah Winfrey […]
The Great Arab Silence
Foud Ajami writes in the Opinion Journal on the deafening silence from Arabs. “The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq is the silence with which it is greeted in other Arab lands. Grant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi his due: He has been skilled at exposing the pitilessness on the loose […]
But the Pants Fit So Well!
Firemen wore SS uniforms, reported Ananova today on the Howie Carr website. “Two German firemen are in trouble after they tried on Nazi SS uniforms they found in an old farmhouse. The firefighters reportedly paraded up and down in the uniforms in front of a group of boy scouts. The […]
A Self-Cleaning Esquire Article on Wikipedia
Daniel Terdiman writes on CNET today about Open Source magazine writing. “When Esquire magazine writer A.J. Jacobs decided to do an article about the freely distributable and freely editable online encyclopedia Wikipedia, he took an innovative approach: He posted a crummy, error-laden draft of the story to the site. Wikipedia […]
Google’s Newest Category Killer: Classifieds
New Media Report is usually full of interesting insider stuff about the web, it’s edited by Elizabeth G. Hines. This is from today’s emailed report. “The news: Google has been quietly gathering classified feeds. The question: Is there a Google classified service in the works? Classified Intelligence—a classified ad industry […]
Yaz and Ted Don’t Go Fishing
“From certain angles, the tanned Yaz looks like Ted Williams in the old Sears fishing ads. Tanned and muscular, but much quieter,” writes the Boston Globe. “On these September fishing trips, in a place where the coast of Massachusetts is protected and timeless, where the geese outnumber the people, Yaz […]
And Finally, The Daily Hampshire Gazette is Sold
Steve Szkotak just emailed me from Richmond VA with news that the Daily Hampshire Gazette and Amherst Bulletin have been sold to the Newspapers of New England, publishers of the Recorder, Concord Monitor, and other papers. I have a connection to the old Gazette, I worked at the paper from […]
