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| Do you really NEED another catalog? I don’t — which is why I’m trying out Catalog Choice. |
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Catalog Choice – About Us
Hallelujah!!! “Catalog Choice is a free service that allows you to decide what gets in your mailbox. Use it to reduce your mailbox clutter, while helping save natural resources.” (tags: environment business services)
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Crosscut Seattle – How an electronic newspaper could become profitable
“Papers like The Seattle Times are in a tough spot: Online advertising revenue is a long way from covering expenses. Meanwhile, print advertising is vanishing. So why not ditch the presses and trucks and go electronic? It just might pencil out.” (tags: advertising future journalism newspapers business+models business tidbits+fodder)
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MediaPost Publications – More Than One-Third Of U.S. Pre-Teens Have A Mobile Phone – 12/04/2007
“Nielsen Co. in-depth study on the mobile media and cross-media behavior of U.S. “tweens” (ages 8-12). The report estimates that: 35% of tweens own a mobile phone, 20% of tweens have used text messaging, and 21% of tweens have used ring & answer tones.” (tags: research statistics generations mobile tidbits+fodder media+evolution)
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A.P. to Reorganize Work and Accent Multimedia – New York Times
“A.P. will change the way it files, edits and distributes stories, opening at least four regional editing hubs as part of a plan it calls AP2.0. Also expanding multimedia packages. Moving toward an all-digital platform: “Digital Cooperative.” (tags: tidbits+fodder news+biz wire+services processes productivity change)
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Dreaming of a future without print… | Greenslade | Guardian Unlimited
“If WP’s Bill Richards is right, $32m of print advertising would transfer to the e-paper AND online ads will also be growing alongside. In other words, it is feasible to imagine a Bugle that doesn’t use ink on paper. Richards may be on to something.” (tags: newspapers media+evolution business+models business tidbits+fodder economics)
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L.A. Times’s Talent Raid on LAist Blog « Web 2.Oh. . .really?
Tony Pierce is “The third LAister to be hired away by the Times: In July sports and entertainment bloggers were called up to The Show. It’s tempting to think that the Times is making a full commitment to embracing the blogosphere. Well, maybe…” (tags: tidbits+fodder blogs career newspapers news+biz content+style)
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Media get fewer police reports (Wisc. State Journal)
“The dearth of information comes at a time when public interest in crime is intense. Hundreds of residents attended a series of meetings with police this fall to complain about crime and disorder in their neighborhoods.” (tags: media government info+access sharing journalism citizen+journalism tidbits+fodder)
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The Associated Press: Broadcaster to Air Speeches to NKorea
“A U.S.-funded radio broadcaster will transmit speeches and debates of leading South Korean presidential candidates beginning this week. Not clear how many North Koreans can listen. North Korean radios are fixed so only state programs can be heard.” (tags: radio world censorship Asia propaganda tidbits+fodder)
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