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pAs the newspaper industry's prospects darken, and rounds of buyouts and layoffs have left little
room for more cuts, The McClatchy Company (a
href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=MNI" class="ticker"
title="MNI"NYSE: MNI/a) is joining with the non-profit iChristian Science Monitor/i on sharing
foreign news coverage on a trial basis. The trial will last for three months and then the two will
evaluate whether the combo worked. The exchange will involve two iCS Monitor/i correspondents, one
in New Delhi and the other in Mexico City, and two McClatchy foreign correspondents in Nairobi and
in Caracas. The arrangement comes two months after McClatchy said it would a
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workforce—while iCS Monitor/i is a
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title="preparing to shift"preparing to shift/a from a daily to a weekly print pub and going
online-only for breaking news. Meanwhile, the Associated Press is a
href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-ap-to-cut-10-percent-of-jobs-in-2009" title="planning to
slash"planning to slash/a 10 percent of its staff next year. a
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title="Three Florida papers form tie-up with J-school"Three Florida papers form tie-up with
J-school/a: The trend of cooperative content has been happening in Florida since August, when three
of the state's largest dailies came together to pool resources. Now, the
three—Tribune Company's iThe Sun Sentinel/i, McClatchy's iThe Miami Herald/i,
and Cox's iThe Palm (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=PALM"
class="ticker" title="PALM"NSDQ: PALM/a) Beach Post/i—are forming a news
service with online and print pieces reported by Florida International University j-school
students, a
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title="EP reports"EP reports/a. The South Florida News Services launches next month and will run at
least until March.nbsp; /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia
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10 Percent of Jobs in 2009; Mainly Through Attrition"AP to Cut 10 Percent of Jobs in 2009; Mainly
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ButterFly FMP3 Player. It now comes with 2GB of built-in memory. Other specs don’t change:
you’ll still have a Built-in MP3 player, as well as FM Radio. It can reproduce MP3 and WMA
audio files, and comes with USB 2.0 port, 5 Equalizer presets.br / Well.... Not really exciting.
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirology"palm reading./a, brought to you by The Illustrated
Textbook of Psychodiagnostic Chirology. br / quot;As seen here, we cannot point to anything in
these prints which establishes genius. Nevertheless, what very markedly differentiates Einstein's
hands from what we normally find in any general population is the length of the fingers relative to
the size of the palm. The fingers, considered collectively, are short to an extreme.Short fingers
speak of marked intuitive faculties and the tendency to visualize reality as an extention of
subjectively defined probabilities. In its worst expression we would find the damaging effects of
prejudices and most every other manner of cognitive dissonance. In its best expression we would
find a vital inventiveness, critical insights and a very creative expansion of meaning of acquired
information.quot;
pWith the government pledging to help rightsholders clamp down on illicit P2P file-sharing, digital
rights groups have more than a few concerns about how this might work. The music industry loves the
plan, however./ppa
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Is it TV sweeps week? Usually taunting the Apple community is a surefire way to to get a traffic
spike as the faithful rush to defend their choice of computer. (Fair disclosure: I use a Mac and
have had one since they first came out :-)
Here is a very funny episode of The Simpsons: "Mypods and Boomsticks," courtesy of Hulu (my
apologies to my non-US readers - you would need a US proxy to view the episode.)
Ever wonder what happens to old subway cars when subway lines upgrade to newer trains? In Beijing
at least, the ones used pre-Olympics have been shipped to Sichuan and converted into temporary
winter...
Nokia Siemens Networks claims to have staged the first demonstration of LTE-A (long term
evolution-advanced) wireless broadband technology, a future evolution of today's 3G networks that
could deliver speeds up...
Accoona, the highly suspect New Jersey based search/electronics retailer, has
suffered what might be its final disgrace - the closure of it’s last business, Twing.
The company, which offered a search product, has a rich history. Founder Marc Armand Rousso has a
shady
past involving stock fraud, and former President Bill Clinton was a spokesperson for the
company.
Most of Accoona’s $137 million/year in revenue came from distributing electronics after
buying
a number of retailers in Brooklyn. In 2007 they canceled a planned IPO, and the Accoona search
business was sold to Masterseek, a
Danish company, last month.
The company said in
April they were deprioritizing all of their businesses except Twing, a forum search engine. But
the Twing website is now offline, and a tipster says the technology is being sold.
Twing, which appears to be a separate corporate entity from Accoona, was said to be pitching for
a small round of financing in the last few months at a valuation of $8 million.
The service had a surge in traffic this last spring, drawing, according to
Compete, a peak of about 1.5 million unique monthly visitors. But much (or all) of that
traffic was driven by advertising spends, says a source, and they struggled to get repeat
visitors.
We’ve contacted Accoona and Twing and await a response.
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For this year, I’m going to be doing an advent calendar for the blog, starting today. I
know Advent actually started yesterday, but 1-24 is just a lot easier, so please forgive me.
This year, in a nod to October’s “Stars
of Political Cartooning,” I will have a different Christmas cartoon by a notable
political cartoonist for each day of the calendar, beginning with perhaps the most famous Santa
Claus cartoon of all time!
The calendar will go up in about ten minutes (it’ll run in the mornings the rest of the
time).
Google is set to expand into the mobile market place in a big way and mobile search will a key
growth driver for the Internet search and advertising market leader...
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
gOS Cloud - From zero to web browser in just a few seconds — gOS
is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that's designed to make it easy to interface with
web-based applications like Gmail, YouTube, and Meebo. It uses the slightly OS X-like
Enlightenment desktop environment …
Paul Steinhauser / CNN: Bill Clinton
mentioned for wife's Senate seat — CNN Deputy Political
Director — (CNN) — After eight years as senator from New York, Hillary
Clinton is trading places, moving from Congress to the incoming administration.
— On Monday, President-elect Barack Obama announced that he asked …
Suretec: "Here's the 14th tip in the "OpenLDAP Quick Tips" series and today it
comes from "Pablo Chamorro":
"You want to analyse your OpenLDAP logfile":"
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cables certified to support future upgrades to your HDTV devices. Supports:
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Chris Foresman /
Infinite Loop:
Apple offers free licensing for Mini DisplayPort spec — When Apple
recently introduced its revamped notebook line, it also introduced the world to the Mini
DisplayPort. It turns out that the company is offering no-fee licenses to anyone interested
in developing products that use the Mini DisplayPort specification.
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CDO's/a are complex little known financial instruments (insurance contracts) that are on the brink
of triggering quot;the most colossal rights issue in the history of the world, all at once ..
mandatory.quot; If, out of a list of several hundred major companies, bany inine/i go bankrupt/b,
the CDO's are in default, which would mean a mass transfer of cash (real money) from unsuspecting
investors around the world goes into the banking system. How much? Nobody knows, but it’s
many trillions. Banks will be flush with cash, perhaps ending the credit crisis, while many
investors (individuals, charities, municipalities) will be wiped out. Alternatively, the triggering
of default on the trillions of synthetic CDOs could be a disaster that tips the world from
recession into depression. Nobody knows, but it won’t be a small event. Thus far bthe count
is isix/i/b: three Icelandic banks, Countrywide, Lehman and Bear Stearns. br /
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entire house is air-conditioned around the clock? Well, with the Wilting Flower, perhaps that
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your household is sipping at that point in time - whenever very little power is used, the flower
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Accoona, the highly suspect New Jersey based search/electronics retailer, has
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