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An outstanding distillation of what's been up with North Korean talks is here.
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And since I've been on vacation, with only CNN International to watch, I just heard about the recent DHS appointment -- to head Immigrations and Customs, as I was looking around in blogs today.
Even conservative Fox News talking faces like Michelle Malkin are pissed.
The line you don't want to skim over is that the under-qualified appointee just married DHS Secretary Chertoff's chief of staff. She got a husband and a job, that's a two-fer.
We'll see what Congress says.
So far, it's been interesting. Sen. George Voinovich represented Ohio, in the urban vernacular meaning of "represented":
"I think that we ought to have a meeting with [Homeland Security Secretary] Mike Chertoff ... to ask him ... why he thinks you're qualified for the job," Mr. Voinovich said. "Because based on your resume, I don't think you are.
Zing!
That's in this Washington Times article from Sept. 16.
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The NY Times is charging $8 a month to read its op-ed columnists!
I'm telling you, even though the great Information Superhighway is supposed to be fantastic for its flow of information unimpeded by financial status or geographical location, perhaps it will only stay that way for so long.
Newspapers need to make money, and subscribers are dying off while youngsters just read online. I know this.
But my generation is quite used to getting all our info online, pretty much for free.
It's just like stealing Wi-Fi from you neighbor who pays for it. It's only a matter of time before it's all encrypted... but kids are growing up now used to "sharing" their neighbors' service.
Then again, maybe it will be like cable -- stolen regularly by masses of folks.
Whatever.
Update: I mentioned my hope (in the comments area below) that you could bypass the fee by checking the sites of free newspapers that syndicate the columns. This will not be possible, because the NYT has asked all free papers to not post their columns online unless it is in a pay-only section.
Some pirates, however, have committed to post them online illegally.
Or, to cut to the chase, here is Friedman's most recent column.
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I've been reading/thinking about the European Union and future of war a bit, and I'll put something on here soon.
###
And since I've been on vacation, with only CNN International to watch, I just heard about the recent DHS appointment -- to head Immigrations and Customs, as I was looking around in blogs today.
Even conservative Fox News talking faces like Michelle Malkin are pissed.
The line you don't want to skim over is that the under-qualified appointee just married DHS Secretary Chertoff's chief of staff. She got a husband and a job, that's a two-fer.
We'll see what Congress says.
So far, it's been interesting. Sen. George Voinovich represented Ohio, in the urban vernacular meaning of "represented":
"I think that we ought to have a meeting with [Homeland Security Secretary] Mike Chertoff ... to ask him ... why he thinks you're qualified for the job," Mr. Voinovich said. "Because based on your resume, I don't think you are.
Zing!
That's in this Washington Times article from Sept. 16.
###
The NY Times is charging $8 a month to read its op-ed columnists!
I'm telling you, even though the great Information Superhighway is supposed to be fantastic for its flow of information unimpeded by financial status or geographical location, perhaps it will only stay that way for so long.
Newspapers need to make money, and subscribers are dying off while youngsters just read online. I know this.
But my generation is quite used to getting all our info online, pretty much for free.
It's just like stealing Wi-Fi from you neighbor who pays for it. It's only a matter of time before it's all encrypted... but kids are growing up now used to "sharing" their neighbors' service.
Then again, maybe it will be like cable -- stolen regularly by masses of folks.
Whatever.
Update: I mentioned my hope (in the comments area below) that you could bypass the fee by checking the sites of free newspapers that syndicate the columns. This will not be possible, because the NYT has asked all free papers to not post their columns online unless it is in a pay-only section.
Some pirates, however, have committed to post them online illegally.
Or, to cut to the chase, here is Friedman's most recent column.
###
I've been reading/thinking about the European Union and future of war a bit, and I'll put something on here soon.
posted by bp at
2:30 PM
2 Comments:
Ohio, represent! Indeed.
Oh, and I think NYTimes shot itself in the foot w/ that subscription thing. Others have commented how their columns have dropped dramatically in terms of readership (looking at things like Technorati, emailed-to ranks, etc) and will just make their authoers less visible in the public debate of ideas.
I think information still wants to be free, and will stay that way for a while. Companies that don't "get it" will just lose readers (and then ad revenue) and suffer.
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Miguel Centellas, at 4:00 PM
Totally shot itself in the foot.
I realize I was being a bit "slippery slope"ish in saying free news is on the way out. I doubt it is.
The daily newspaper that employs me is doing backflips to make itself more Web-accessible. Blogs on everything from "Northern Kentucky Politics" to high school sports, and regular online chats with writers, all that stuff.
We're hiring a lot of folks for online work, too.
Also: won't syndicated columns still be available online at the newspapers that syndicate them? Perhaps NY Times is smarter than that, and revoked online rights, but I wonder...
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bp, at 4:51 PM
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