Jed Babbin writes about the financial and ethical meltdown of the New York Times.
One wonders how long the stockholders (including the other Sulzbergers) will continue to put up with Pinch’s blinkered incompetence? It’s going to take a lot of work to restore the brand, at this point.
It looks like truthout.org wasn’t just ahead of the news cycle. They were in a news cycle in an alternate universe.
They’re better designed for it.
Boy, am I going to catch heat for this.
Michael Ledeen says that the mask is coming off.
Michael Ledeen says that the mask is coming off.
Michael Ledeen says that the mask is coming off.
You know, while Greg Gutfeld is pretty funny, the funniest thing about his pieces at the Huffpo are the outraged commenters. It’s like poking a stick into a nest of angry hornets. Errr…except they aren’t as smart.
And I have to admit that I do share their questions about why Arianna continues to allow him to post–he’s so out of place over there.
I woke up yesterday morning to over three hundred trackback spams. These are a real pain in the ass, because when they come in a flood like that from a single spammer (in this case it was pr0n), it’s hard to search through them to find the random ones from others, which needs to be done to clean them all out.
Joe Katzman has been having similar problems, on a much larger scale. I’ve been thinking about shutting down trackback as well, but before I do, I think I’ll try this idea, via Annoying Old Guy in Joe’s comments section.
It looks interesting, and if everyone did it, it would make life much more difficult for these supreme scum of the earth. As I type these words I just got two series of half a dozen or so from mortgage lenders. Who knows how many they would have hit me with if I hadn’t been at the computer and could cut them off at the pass? I just wish I could cut them off at the nuts.
The Bigelow test article has reportedly inflated and deployed its solar panels.
[Update before bed]
Here’s the story.
And Clark Lindsey has a brief roundup of the state of the alt-space industry.
Firefox 2.0 is ready for testing.