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Don’t Let that Book Touch the Ground–Or Else!
Newsweek’s story about a koran being flushed down the toilet at Guantanomo prison is turning into an epic case of damage control gone bad. Today’s NY times has a story about the background of the alleged incident. “Erik Saar, a co-author of the book “Inside the Wire” and an Arabic […]
Reading Blogs on TV
From today’s cyberjournalist.net, comes a funny report about the merging of the old and the new. You can go to this link and watch the clip on the TV show. “The Daily Show ran an entertaining segment last week on how TV broadcasts are increasing reading from blogs on air. […]
Back Room Blog Talk
The little button that I placed on the bottom of the blog has provided fascinating details about my readers here at Readuponit. The one that says “site meter,” There were about 204 of you who came and read the site yesterday, you stayed an average of 39 seconds. Some of […]
And Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite
An MSNBC.com horror story news article says bed bugs can live for months without food — patiently waiting for the next hapless hotel guest to arrive so they can feast on him. Even upscale hotels are not immune to litigation, and bug specialists say the pests can thrive even in […]
Shoes Make High Drama
Pelosi Shoe Drama Has Fairytale Ending At last, the searing drama of Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s missing pink shoe has come to an end. And what an end it was! Freshman Representative Dave Reichert (R-Washington) dropped to one knee during a press conference, flourished an elegant pink slingback and […]
Pay It Ain’t So
The web just cuts right to the chase. Paidcontent.org is the name of the site where I found this snippet about the New York Times’ new idea for fighting the neverending battle against revenue shrink, called TimesSelect, where you will have to pay to read their op-ed and some of […]
Airline Outsourcing–To Utah
Thomas Friedman’s new book, The World Is Flat, offers a treasure trove of blogfodder. Here he visits David Neeleman, the president of JetBlue Airlines, who talks about why he uses stay at home moms in Salt Lake City Utah to make all of his reservations. “He calls it ‘homesourcing.’ JetBlue […]
How Many People Read This Blog
I’ve added a new counter to Readuponit, so if you ever wondered if you are the only one who reads this blog, now you can see who else has been here.
Oodles of Noodles for Turtles in Bangladore
We drove over to Barnes and Noble today, with the grey skies threatening a Sunday afternoon shower. After looking over many books, I settled on Thomas Friedman’s new “The World is Flat,” and am now deep into reading about Bangladore India’s 24/7 Company, where outsourcing comes to life. “A bottle […]
Airlines Dump their Pension Costs on U.S.–that’s Us!
Pensions are in the news, and is a ticking time bomb, says George Will in today’s NY Post. Pension plans are underfunded by an estimated $450 billion. Who will bail them out? Taxpayers beware. The judge who recently allowed United to bail out on its billions in pension debts said […]
If Bush Won’t Do Something, these Mayors Will
Today’s NY Times reports that132 mayors from all over the country are defying Bush by agreeing to the rules of the Kyoto Treaty. Seattle’s mayor Greg Nickles, leads the way, and many others are coming on board, seeing that if the Feds don’t do something, they’ve got to act. “The […]