Tag: doom
Bet you’d live here if you could and be one of us
An Orange County energy drink launch party in the middle of a financial depression and a two-front war. It’s the Masque of the Tan Death.
Here, we have JonBenet. There…
CAUSE OF SWINE FLUE DISCROVERED
CANADIAN CARTOON PROPAGANDA ISOLATED THE PROBLEM IN 1981 WHAT IS OUR DIFFICULTY HERE (PIGBIRD)
In which I totally say “I told you so”
kniwt was kind enough to point out that I was right in March 2007, and others have been kind to point out that I was right in July 2003 about the oncoming subprime mortgage tsunami.
I’d love to call myself a prophet, but most of us in Newport saw that one coming. Too bad the financial journalists didn’t get to reporting on it until it was too late. Wonder why that happened?
Obama bin Biden
This is a horrible flashback to the first two elections of my voting career: Mondale v. Reagan and Dukakis v. Bush Sr.
Preparing my absentee ballot and ordering a case of Maker’s Mark, here.
fluffy doom on the march
And so it begins…
US Measles Outbreak Hits 15 States
I’m taking my nephew to a Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever party as soon as I can!
We’ve Got a Bigger Problem Now: Powering the Internet Isn’t So Green
“Data centres consumed 0.6% of the world’s electricity in 2000, and 1% in 2005. Globally, they are already responsible for more carbon-dioxide emissions per year than Argentina or the Netherlands, according to a recent study by McKinsey, a consultancy, and the Uptime Institute, a think-tank. If today’s trends hold, these emissions will have grown four-fold by 2020, reaching 670m tonnes. By some estimates, the carbon footprint of cloud computing will then be larger than that of aviation.”
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11412495&CFID=7201199&CFTOKEN=82937133
YOU ARE PART OF THIS COMPLICATED MEDIA PIE
The latest in the series of maniacal memos from Lee Abrams to Tribune Staff is at Romenesko in its entirety, via LA Observed’s synopsis.
So beautiful. Excerpts:
Using my favorite music analogies–Imagine Newspaper CONTENT is a major artist. Currently they are performing in a old but reliable venue. What happens if the artist (Content) moves into a new super venue? Fans will love it–the music (content) will sound clearer…better seats…etc…If you create anew venue (look) and you do it RIGHT, people will love it. Not unlike a new baseball park.
THREE DAY PREVIEW: Why is it only weather can do three day previews? Newspapers tend to look at YESTERDAY. How about looking at TOMORROW..and the days after. You can’t predict breaking news of course, but you CAN condition readers that there IS a tomorrow and YOU will be there.
Because Newspapers are in every home and on every street
corner. The better the paper IS and does, the stronger all of the other
brands will be!!! Creating new brands to reach non traditional print
demos is good…but the stronger and more potent the core paper is–the
better EVERYTHING will be. Sorta like Diet Coke wouldn’t have a prayer
if COKE wasn’t a powerhouse….sorta. I DO see a lot of “whoa! GREAT
idea…too bad we can’t try it on our core brand” Why???!!! Is it
“assuming” that traditional readers won’t like it?
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