These items have floated into my feed readers recently and are presented here in no particular order and without bias (except for the biases of humor and irony).
Embedded below is the day-after Hulu.com video of Gov. Sarah Palin appearing on “Saturday Night Live. (NBC Television)
It should be been noted that the SNL cast since 1975 has referred to itself as the “Not Ready for Prime-Time Players.”
Video updated to a version without 25 seconds of pre-roll adverts
6,000 strong for Gov. Sarah.
I admit that I located this clip as it was shared on the Team Sarah Ning site. (6,271 members and counting!)
I am sure this membership wouldn’t surprise the editors at The Daily Mirror who seemed to sense the senselessness of dumb numbers four years ago.
That was 2004; Today newspapers are losing their political clout to the networking effect of online media.
The cultural losses at U.S. newspapers (Beyond readers, advertising revenues and staff) are covered in detail in this blog posting by Dan Conover
Newspapers have already lost one of their key selling points: Social currency. In 2008, all meaningful political discourse — the essential element of social currency — takes place on the Web.
Read Dan’s nine other “Reasons why newspapers won’t reinvent news”
Yowza. Happy Sunday, my colleagues.
Back to sex, money and the newspaper game in London
Today The Times (London) is asking Web readers “What the economic crisis will do to Playboy models”
One does wonder how newspapers will succeed four years hence if they can’t carve out a unique service-oriented value position online today.
This blog item was promoted along with a sexy photo in an adjacent column to another item I was reading on the site. Britain’s Prince Philip Embarrasses Googlers
Perhaps I should ask you readers. Who would you rather see more during this economic crisis?
Gov. Sarah Palin or actor Tina Fey? Here they are n the same stage.
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