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Joe The Plumber Secures Book Deal — One of the hilarious -- and sad! -- parts of Samuel "Joe The Plumber" Wurzelbacher's recent interview with CNN's Rick Sanchez was that moment where an exasperated J.T. Plumber whined at Sanchez, "Well, ask good questions then! Why don't you ask what I'm going to do now?" Awww! See, Joe The Plumber wasn't interested in being asked to account for whatever pseudo-intellectual swill was worming its way through his brain when he went out on the stump, with all of his opinions. No, no! Joe The Plumber just wanted to use the forum as a way of plugging all of...
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Google - the world's first firewalled monopolyPricing power goes virtual Antitrust 2.0 Why did Google leave outgoing Yahoo! chief executive Jerry Yang heartbroken at the search engine altar? If you believe the words chief ad broker and CEO Eric Schmidt funneled through The New York Times, Google chaffed at the prospect of winning a Department of Justice (DoJ) antitrust suit.…...
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Reducing Our Offer For The New York Times (NYT)As you recall, back in July, we happily made an offer for the digital operations of the New York Times Company (NYT). We offered a massive price--$1 billion--and proposed an innovative deal structure that would avoid the need for annoying shareholder approvals, jillion-dollar legal fees, egregious tax hits, etc. (In short, the NYT would acquire us, and then spin us and NYT Digital out--see details below). We explained how we would run the standalone NYT Digital and how the proposed transaction would benefit New York Times shareholders, who have since been obliterated. Well, we are pleased to say that, despite...
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What is Techmeme Telling Us?A lot of PR people I know – particularly those affiliated with the tech and social media industries – make frequent daily visits to Techmeme.  What is Techmeme?  Here’s their “ABOUT TECHMEME” blurb: “At this moment, the hottest stories in technology are scattered across dozens of news sites and blogs.  That's an awful lot of sites for anyone to check.  Fortunately, Techmeme arranges all of these links into a single, easy-to-scan page. It's auto-generated through a news-picking software system, so updates occur around the clock.” In a recent email to his subscribers, the ever-helpful, often-brilliant Sam Whitmore of Mediasurvey performed...
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Dow 7,000? Dow 6,000? Yields on Treasury bills, meantime, fell to nearly zero. Investors were willing to accept almost no return just to know their money was safe. - Mitchell Tsai
Another source of concern is a possible new round of forced sales by hedge funds, seeking to raise the cash quickly to meet margin calls and redemptions of assets by investors. - Mitchell Tsai
Financial shares are plunging far below the levels plumbed in October, when panic gripped the markets. On Wednesday, Citigroup, the hobbled financial giant, plunged 23.4 percent to a mere $6.40 in an avalanche of sell orders. Once the most valuable financial company in America, Citigroup is now worth less than U.S. Bancorp. - Mitchell Tsai
Goldman Sachs, the former employer of Henry M. Paulson Jr., the Treasury secretary, sank to its lowest level since it went public in 1999. Analysts predicted that Goldman, the most profitable bank in Wall Street history, would suffer its first loss as a public company. - Mitchell Tsai
Even Warren E. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, which owns the Geico Corporation and recently invested in Goldman Sachs, fell 12 percent, its steepest decline in more than two decades. - Mitchell Tsai
The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 427.47 points or 5.07 percent, at 7,997.28. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index closed down 6.12 percent or 52.54 points at 806.58 while the technology-heavy Nasdaq ended down 6.53 percent at 1,386.42. - Mitchell Tsai
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About how social media is important and how brand equity and reputation management is the way to go. - Chuck Reynolds
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PC Mag Goes All Online All the TimeSince PC Magazine is for the tech crowd the announcement that the publication (can’t call it a magazine anymore I guess) would cease printing a hard copy and be a strictly online operation isn’t a surprise. The New York Times covers this change in the flagship of Ziff Davis Publishing while the company reports that the magazine would be profitable in 2008 but it is forecast to lose money in 2009. Magazines as a whole are facing increasing competition from their online foes which are eating into advertising revenue. Coupled with a general economic malaise that is getting a tighter...
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Penny Pritzker: Commerce Secretary? — More news has come out about the makeup of Obama's Cabinet. The New York Times reports that Penny Pritzker is a leading candidate for Commerce Secretary: Two other leading contenders for cabinet positions emerged late Wednesday, Democrats with knowledge of the process said. Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona was poised to be offered the position of homeland security secretary, and Penny Pritzker, a Chicago businesswoman and national finance chairman of the Obama campaign, was in the final stages of vetting for commerce secretary. A longtime friend of Mr. Obama, Ms. Pritzker was a chief architect of his record-breaking fund-raising efforts...
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Photo Credit: Adapted from Gateway Arch by docdevore For the past five years my browser home page has been set to either Google.com or iGoogle. (I briefly flirted with the New York Times as my default but have integrated their feeds everywhere else.) This week I switched it to Gmail. With all of the features they have been adding lately, particularly through their Labs, Gmail is unquestionably my virtual Swiss Army Knife. It is not only my communications hub. It is my knowledge base and to some degree my feed reader. Some say it is becoming an enterprise dashboard...
Interesting system you have going there. My main interface is Google Reader with a FriendFeed Real-time sidebar. GTalk I use through the client software. I am definitely going to try some of your methods out. Seeing how people use different approaches to interacting online always fascinates me. My way of doing things may not be the best. - Rolf Schewe
"Making Gmail Your Gateway to the Web" - Steve Rubel Micro Persuasion http://tinyurl.com/64q7hf - Kenichi Matsumoto
Making Gmail Your Gateway to the Web: Photo Credit: Adapted from Gateway Arch by docdevore For the past .. http://bit.ly/we9r - Kenichi Matsumoto
Steve, thanks for sharing this productivity system. Much appreciated. Gmail is an awesome tool. I use the GTD inbox add on for task mgt. We have similar goals with Gmail. Make it into a personal productivity, communications and reference KM tool. - Chris Herbert
Making Gmail Your Gateway to the Web - Kenichi Matsumoto
Re: Gmail Gateway I this is very cool stuff, but I wish Google Notebook could be integrated with Gmail as a gadget just like the calendar and docs applications. Also, you have made me reconsider whether to install the Google Toolbar. Thank you, Steve - Brian Schwartz
Micro Persuasion: Making Gmail Your Gateway to the Web - Matteo
Making Gmail Your Gateway to the Web - Rob Diana
Making Gmail Your Gateway to the Web - Mark O'Neill
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Facebook less like a college dorm than you'd think [Cubicle Culture]One imagines Facebook as a geek utopia, where hackers who dropped out of college play Rock Band all day, then stay up all night coding. The reality: It's as depressingly Dilbertian as any other company — and COO Sheryl "No-Fun" Sandberg is making sure it keeps getting more boring every day. Take the latest tiff we happened to hear about — in the social network's business-development department, the home of glad-handing charmers who negotiate deals. You'd think they'd be experts at sucking up to each other. Tim Kendall (shown left), the company's director of monetization — Valleyspeak for "guy who...
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Dow Closes Below 8,000 For First Time In Five Years; ContentNextDex Drops To Lowest Since '07 LaunchThe Dow, with its first sub-8,000 close in five years, wasn't the only index with a record-you-don't-want day: the ContentNextDex, our own index of media, tech, mobile and entertainment stocks, dropped nearly 6 percent to 507.32—the lowest close since we launched it officially in September 2007. Compared with the year's high of 1,076.02, that's a staggering 47.68 percent loss year to date. The ContentNextDex performance hovered between the Dow's 5 percent drop to 7,997 and the S&P 500's loss of 6.12 percent. ContentNexDex is a flood of red with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) snugly in the top five losers thanks to...
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Dwayne Raymond: Planes, Pains And Automobiles — I never believed I would agree with something Mitt Romney had to say but today I do. For the past two years most statements coming from him were mired in presidential campaign hokum. In today's Op-Ed piece in the New York Times, however, we were given the chance to read a lucid, succinct approach to sorting out the auto industry quandary. While I write this CNN is on in the background. It reports that the executive buffoons begging for billions of our dollars arrived in DC on a fleet of private jets. What? Granted they're in a rush to...
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Andrew Warner is an Internet entrepreneur and the founder of Mixergy.com. Tim Ferriss’ relationships with bloggers helped him reach the New York Times bestseller list with his book, The Four Hour Work Week. I recently called Tim to ask him how to market to bloggers. Here’s what he taught me: Start before you need something “I reached out to certain bloggers as far as a year in advance of the book being published,” Tim told me. By building his connections ahead of time, he never had to start a relationship with a blogger by asking for a favor. Meet bloggers...
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'Top Chef' Does Hot Dogs TonightFrom Serious Eats: New York On tonight's Top Chef, the aspiring top toques have to cook hot dogs. The show sprung a surprise on the contestants by bringing in one of New York's premiere hot dog cart purveyors, Angelina D'Angelo, to show them how it's done. I'm proud to see Angelina, because I wrote about her in my New York Times hot dog round-up in 2005. I love the idea of Angelina appearing on the show, but I have no clue why they chose Donatella Arpaia as the guest judge. Donatella's a really good restaurateur whom I know reasonably well,...
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Tech sector snaphot: Apple’s shifting fortunesI’ve long been fascinated by the shifting circles in the New York Times‘ “sector snapshots,” those charts in the Business Section that show the relative sizes of companies in a particular field — and which ones are leading, slipping, lagging or improving relative to the S&P 500. On Wednesday, the Times ran the snapshot I’d been waiting for - the one that shows where Apple stands vis a vis its competitors in technology hardware & equipment. The version that appeared in my morning paper showed HP (HPQ) and IBM (IBM) in the first, or leading, quadrant (up for the week...
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Romney, the auto industry, and short attention spansIt looks like Mitt Romney is counting on short attention spans to win the 2012 Republican nomination for President.I just read this in Liberty Maven:For once it seems that when it comes to the auto industry bailout Ron Paul agrees with Mitt Romney, or is it the other way around? Romney said the following about the bailouts in a New York Times op-ed.“If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won’t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed.”“Without that bailout, Detroit...
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Thanksgiving edition - The New York Times Dining & Wine Section in 60 SecondsFiled under: Poultry, America, in sixty seconds, Thanksgiving, FallIt seems simple, but making tasty gravy is deceptively difficult. Some tips. Gourmet side dish recipes: Brussels sprouts with apples, savory slaw, potato mousseline, roasted fingerling potatoes with figs, sourdough dressing with truffles and chestnuts. Yet another French chef renounces his Michelin stars and quits the kitchen. Helping preserve heritage turkeys. Poultry workers punch and kick turkeys to death. Eric Asimov talks music and wine. Mashed potato re-use: Spanish croquetas, or potato patties with spinach and salmon. Recipes. The Minimalist says skip the marshmallows and try some ginger and orange zest, or...
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Mitt Romney For Auto Industry Czar*If I was a candidate for public office, I would not turn to Mitt Romney for advice. If I was building a million-dollar country mansion, I would not make Romney my interior decorator. If I needed jokes for a standup act, Romney would not be my writer. But if I lived in a nation threatened by a automobile industry collapse, Romney would be at the top of the list of experts whose advice I heeded. The reason: Everything in his life has prepared him for this task. To understand Romney, one must understand that his entire professional career has been...
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Jeffrey Feldman: Mitt Romney's Ye-Olde-Times Plan For Detroit — In a Op-Ed piece in today's New York Times, Mitt Romney boldly invites Americans to view the auto industry through the economic lens of 1954.  As a foray into the troubled waters of the biggest industry crisis of our time, Romney's plan epitomizes how Republicans think about the economy:  by pretending we live in a Dickensian version of the Eisenhower era.When transported back in time to that imaginary Republican past, the actual challenges of 2008 vanish (poof! all gone)--challenges like renewable energy, resource stewardship, sustainable building, healthy communities.  Also gone are the opportunities those challenges bring. Thus, in Romney's Op-Ed,...
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