New York Times
February 2, 2010
- (Posted from The Publeconomist, published 1/23/10)Technology can lead to scary things! An interesting article was posted yesterday in the New York Times. Author Motoko Rich wrote about how many new and emerging authors are experiencing an enormous boost in sales without making a penny. How are they doing it? By giving away their books for free. Meanwhile in other industries, movie ...
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January 25, 2010
- I feel sorry for rich people.According to an article in The New York Times, the wealthy have been living in “self-imposed austerity” for almost a year. Turns out, frugality is fatiguing. The rich are now absolutely itching to spend some money but remain concerned that any obvious displays of wealth might make all the have-nots go cuckoo jealous so have devised a plan of inconspicuous ...
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January 25, 2010
- We here at the Daily Sam have been advised by our Board of Directors—which consists of anyone who will listen to us for longer than two minutes—to post new editions of the Daily Sam blog on a regularly-scheduled basis. As a result we have decided that going forward the Daily Sam will be published every Monday and Thursday, unless we have a good excuse.(I like saying “going forward.” ...
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November 23, 2009
- (Posted from The Publeconomist, published 11/23/09) New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a beautiful article in Saturday’s newspaper that I think everyone should read. First, he takes on the common misconception that China will definitely become the world’s greatest superpower in the 21st century. Having lived in Beijing and spent a large portion of my academic and post-college ...
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October 31, 2009
- The so-called mainstream media, once defined as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and the three major network TV stations, no longer have a monopoly on the opinion making process in American life. Why belabor the obvious? We all know why. Eyeballs are migrating to the Internet, that vast endless, timeless cloud of ...
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October 21, 2009
- I like the tussle of digital world commmenting, as nasty and angry and messy as it can get. There are also endless tips, suggestions, ideas and other useful things in comments sections that may be bad for the ego but good for journalism. I've tried to have a fairly transparent inbox on this blog and have responded both to commenters and to people whose names show up in the post itself. Today, the ...
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October 20, 2009
- While I've been paying a bit of attention lately to the local stage to try to do my part in making sure we don't have another disastrous four years under Governor Jon Corzine (especially since I unfortunately did my part to put him IN office by voting for him), the national circus has continued. Rather than a long-winded tirade today, let's just do a tally, shall we?$6,700 - The amount of ...
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October 20, 2009
- There's not a whole lot Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley and I have in common. There's that prize, for one thing. She's extraordinarily tall, I'm extraordinarily short. Even our names are of wildly different lengths - I've got her whole 10-digit name beat with my hyphenated last name alone.But there are at least two things we do have in common. 1) I remember reading once ...
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October 19, 2009
- As I sifted through the stacks of newspapers that piled up over the week, it all added up to some pretty depressing publishing news (as for what’s going on in the rest of the world, let’s not even go there). First I read this NY Times story about price wars, which notes that Wal-Mart and Amazon will be offering new hardcover releases at $8.99 this holiday season. This is, in so many ways, a ...
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October 6, 2009
- The death of Gourmet magazine is a big, sucking wound for all those consultants advising the panicked print industry to go niche, baby, go niche. As though we haven't been hearing that since the 1980s. But even as we bury another paper publication, this one high end and historically choking with the most delicious verticals (food/wine) and attractive demographics, count on the New York Times to ...
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