Nick Hornby, on writing. Thanks, PBS, for the non-embeddable clip. Skip to 5:30 to get the the good bits. …
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What happened when the money dried up
I've been passing around an odd little YouTube clip of a 2005 Christmas gift from Sam Zell. It shows an animated statue that features a recording of Sam extolling the virtures of an economy that's …
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Can an InfoValet guide us to a business model?
Martin Langeveld reports on a conference focused on the notion of an "InfoValet." It sounds like attendees at the conference spent a lot of time thinking of ways to describe what they're onto, but I'd …
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Winner, Most Prescient Post of 2008: Mark Potts
It was just shy of one year ago today when Mark Potts swam against the Zellebratory news of the sale of Tribune, in a post entitled "Here Come The Death Eaters," in which he typed these words: Put …
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And so it begins
Both the Wall Street Journal and New York Times are reporting tonight that the Tribune company has hired an investment bank and a law firm for a potential bankruptcy filing as early as this week. This …
Langeveld: What it means to transform to a digital enterprise
I keep coming back to this: if the people, through their behavior, keep telling newspapers that they don't want the paper part of the paper anymore AND the paper part of the paper is enormously …
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