Requiem For A Newspaper, Part II: The Road To Online
I explained in Part I why the P-I as a print newspaper is dead. But let me rehash some points I and others have already made. The P-I as we knew it is dead, because newspapers are dead. The ink-stained...
View ArticleRequiem For A Newspaper, Part IV: Time For The Times
Most of my focus in this series has been on the P-I, whether it’s viable as an online news site without the print side of things, and how we’re going to have to confront the possibility that we’ll be a...
View ArticleEnergy Usage: would you earn a :) or :( ?
Sacramento has started sending out utility bills with either a smiley face or a frowny face to a random selection of customers to encourage energy conservation. The results: a 2% decrease in energy...
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seattle’s mayoral race is about to get a whole lot more embarrassing
announced today on the slog Does a stunt candidacy by the editor of a weekly newspaper require any sort of journalistic recusal on the grounds of conflict of interest, or is that sort of the point of...
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When Life Hands You Lemons
Be on the lookout for this lemon! Tomorrow, do not be surprised if you run into a walking, talking lemon that will be wandering Downtown. This lemon will be promoting Worktank‘s “Embrace the Lemon”...
View Articlemystery lights
Confused by the intense beacon of blue light rising from Seattle Center into the sky last night, I turned to Google and found out that it as related to something called Bing from Microsoft. [google/news]
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This Old House
On Tuesday, June 23rd at 9:30 AM, the Parks and Seattle Center Committee of the Seattle City Council will meet. On the agenda is the usual boring stuff, like the Chair’s report, authorizing an...
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The decline of The Stranger
Remember when the Stranger was edgy, fun, cool, and hip? Me neither, but remember when the Slog was a must-read local blog? In the last couple months, I’ve basically stopped reading it. Yeah, Eli...
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dear seattle, start treating your mayors right
photo by amit gupta [flickr]. Memo to Seattle bars, cafes, and restaurants. Foursquare, the enhanced successor to Dodgeball has turned going out into an even more fun game by awarding weekly...
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Doors close, doors open
Tonight I was turning on my phone after watching A Little Help at the Harvard Exit to tell a friend that it’s totally worth watching when I learned the sad news. As he said, he and I have been around...
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