November 11th, 2010
A sign of the times, as it were: three of the most popular stories on the New York Times site this morning are about cooking. OK, we’re all planning our Thanksgiving feasts to be held two weeks from today. But isn’t there anything more important? Oh, yeah, there’s a story about the rapper Shyne, “the…
October 11th, 2010
You thought you dislike online banner advertising? Perhaps you’ve even installed software like Ad Annihilator, Adblock Pro or Super Ad Blocker to block banner ads from appearing. Or, more likely, you’ve trained yourself to just filter them out, to generally ignore these intrusive ads. Do not despair. Now you can renounce your bad habits and regain the…
August 11th, 2010
from thad@thefutureofpublishing.com <thad@thefutureofpublishing.com> to onlinejournal@wsj.com, wsj.ltrs@wsj.com, d.bernard@wsj.com, k.sells@wsj.com, a.murray@wsj.com, MainStreet@wsj.com, julia.angwin@wsj.com date Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:48 PM subject Cancel subscription immediately To Editors and Managements of The Wall Street Journal, I have valued your paper for decades, and faithfully subscribed online for perhaps ten years. It was always expensive but I did not…
July 8th, 2010
The Wall Street Journal broke the story today, starting off with “The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed ‘Perfect Citizen’ to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, according to people familiar with the program.” Perfect Citizen! Don’t you just…
July 2nd, 2010
In return, my best wishes to The Times and The Sunday Times, founded in 1788. Now owned by Rupert Murdoch, who purchased the paper from the Thomson Corporation in 1981, this is the launch of his born-again content-is-more-important-than-advertising initiative.