Polymath's Guide to News and Ideas
My Brain, Your Brawn
WALL STREET JOURNAL : Decades after his father sold bagels and bialys on New York's Lower East Side, Gary Schwartzberg was convinced he had a product that could reinvent his family business... READ MORE
The perils of publicness
WWW.BUZZMACHINE.COM : I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the benefits of publicness and transparency. This week also reminded me of the perils... READ MORE
Newspaper profits swoon, more cuts likely
REFLECTIONS OF A NEWSOSAUR :Relentless expense reductions at America’s newspapers this year have failed to stay ahead of falling sales and uncontrollable fixed costs... READ MORE
A Bailout Plan For U.S. Newspapers
BUSINESS WEEK : The post-Election Day landscape brings great change for America and its governing philosophy, and this is why we must move quickly to craft a federal bailout for the newspaper industry... READ MORE
Google meets the CDC: flu tracking by search trends
ARS TECHNICA : If you were to ask 1,000 people to come up with a list of words associated with the flu, chances are that a list of symptoms including head and muscle aches, cough, etc... READ MORE
The Good Life of a New-Media Guru
SLATE : Jeff Jarvis is living the good life. (But he's still humble—he says so himself!) Jeff Jarvis is the very model of a modern new-media guru. Do you know about him? He started out in print media but is now a multiplatform new-media consultant... READ MORE
The decline of newspapers - nothing to do with journalism
ADRIANMONCK.COM :Declining newspaper readership has nothing to do with journalism. Should I say that again for the hard of hearing... READ MORE
TV Sales Suddenly Decelerate
BITS : Several weeks ago, I wrote a piece in The Times predicting that TV sales could decline this holiday season. “The anecdotal evidence is that the stores are pretty quiet... READ MORE
The End of 'Objectivity' in New Era: A Good Thing?
EDITOR & PUBLISHER :When Michael Paulson began covering religion for The Boston Globe eight years ago, the paper had no blogs or online video, he did almost no outside speaking work, and the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Catholic church sex scandal was still years away... READ MORE
Study shows how spammers cash in
BBC NEWS :Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send, finds a study... READ MORE