Maybe it’s that good PR for oil companies is so rare that they don’t know what to do when they get some. That appears to be the case for Shell Oil, which looks like it’ll get a billion people looking at its logo during the World Cup soccer tournament — more or less for free. […]
Continue reading... March 15, 2006
Watch, Look, and Listen
You don’t want to laugh at the dead, and you don’t want to make fun of the disabled. But it just strikes me that if you’re deaf and walking along active train tracks, you really ought to make sure that you’re a) walking against traffic b) walking far enough from the tracks that a passing […]
Continue reading... February 22, 2006
DJ Reorg Puts WSJ Print and Online Together
I don’t know any of the players so I don’t know the inside baseball, but the Dow Jones reorganization announced today feels like most of a right move. It puts the online and print versions of the WSJ under the same management, so all those horses have at least a chance of pulling in the […]
Continue reading... February 22, 2006
Hed of the Day
This is entirely skippable, but the hed on UnBeige appealed to the print geek in me. 732, by the way, is a deep shade of brown.
Continue reading... February 17, 2006
The New Newspapers
A long Salon article that starts out unpromisingly by repeating old news about the dumbed down free tabloids aimed at young adults gets suddenly exciting at the end of the third take. (You’ll have to watch an ad to get that far, but it’s worth it.) That’s when Farhad Manjoo introduces us to Rob Curley, […]
Continue reading... February 17, 2006
End of the Blogs?
Slate’s Daniel Gross gets all meta today with a fin de siecle article claiming that blogging is dead because Big Media is noticing it and wants to play. Like an good trend piece, he picks four data points and extrapolates: Whatever trend gets on magazine covers is immediately dead. Early entrants sell out Big Media […]
Continue reading... February 13, 2006
Well, That Wasn’t So Bad
All the posts from my old Radio blog at www.danrosenbaum.com have, by some miracle, made it here intact. Thanks go to Bill Kearney’s script. But, dude, would it have killed you to include some end-user instructions like “Step 1: Face the computer and put your hands on the keyboard”? Next step is to pretty up […]
Continue reading... February 12, 2006
Where’s the Rest of Me?
I’m migrating away from the increasingly abandoned Radio Userland toward the better-supported Movable Type. Getting content from the old blog to the new one is going to be a little bit of a process, I’m afraid. Until I get everything straightened out here, you can still see my historical content at the old Over the […]
Continue reading... February 5, 2006
New Home Page
If you come into this page directly, please let me suggest that you click on the “Dan Rosenbaum Home” link. The Web site that contains this Weblog has undergone significant renovations. You may find them interesting.
Continue reading... January 31, 2006
Newspapers and The Net
What print has been good at, historically, is gathering communities of like-minded people. If you read Flying, you’re probably a private pilot. If you read Popular Science, you probably care a lot about tomorrow. If you read The Economist, you most likely have a business with a global view. If you read a local newspaper, […]
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