Category: media
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Silly Girls — the Internet is for Boys!
It’s April 1, meaning that it’s time for technology blogs — and it’s always technology blogs — to pull out that tiresome old canard of making their site women-friendly. It wasn’t funny when Slashdot did it, and it’s not funny now that PetaPixel has done it. Yes, how hilarious to market technology sites towards women!…
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Share buybacks!
A-ha! In my previous post on owning stocks, I had completely forgotten about stock buybacks, when the company uses excess cash to buy outstanding shares. In this sense, the company itself is placing real value on the stocks, and this gives them some intrinsic value other than (a) producing dividends or (b) liquidation. The traditional…
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Now batting for Pedro Borbon…Manny Mota! (mota! mota!)
I’ll admit it, I’ve been spending way too much time paying attention to the crazy political goings-on this season. Even after the endless Bataan Death March Obama-Clinton showdown, I’ve continued to pay attention. But the relentless echo-chamber, especially on the right, but also on the left, is completely out of control, and blogs have made…
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He had me until the word “not”
If you were under the age of 35 ( . . . which most of you are), and were reading the paper with your breakfast, would you continue with an article that started like this: I do not unconditionally celebrate the Internet, particularly its intrusion into classical music. As replacements for the record store, Amazon…
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Dean gets it, and gets votes
I read that the Democratic National Convention is giving full press credentials to hundreds of bloggers, including one locally-focused blog from every state. This is yet another example of how Howard Dean gets it, the 21st century, and I still can’t believe that the Democratic Party actually, for once, did the smart thing when electing…