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Charles Apple has done it again.
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Chicago Tribune editor quits her job today - and I found out through Twitter.
My dear friend Charles Apple does not Tweet on Twitter but he is somewhat surprised by all of the small talk taking place on the Internet - Who has time to Tweet, update your FB status and do all of the other things you are supposed to do?
I mean that is how I was alerted today that Chicago Tribune editor Ann Marie Lipinski was suddenly quitting the paper.
It just takes a few thumb clicks to insta-publish a breaking alert like this. that’s the power of microblogging. It’s instant.
The good news that some of this talk can be automated and since it is small talk - it can be done with your mobile while you are stuck in a boring meeting or sitting on a bus somewhere. So microblogging gives you the option to use time you were already wasting away.
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The Society of News Design ends the year with a top 10 list of the big efforts in 2008.
Here’s a wee summary I hacked up in Yahoo! Pipes.
Click on any story link to read the full text on SND’s Update Web site.
I hope they consider publishing this great collection of analysis and review material in print.
Nice job to all the authors!
Poor Tribune, Standard & Poor’s is removing TRB stock from its S&P 500 Index tomorrow after close. The company’s deepening debt is already listed as junk status.
Chief Executive Dennis J. FitzSimons is trying to cash the fattest employee check before the end of the year for himself. He wants to be compensated $40 million to NOT run the company any longer.
‘Tribune Millionaries’ used to be more common. Back in the days when I worked for that company - I used to participate in every employee program I could to get my hands on the issue. It was always on the rise, splitting every few years and so I would buy the stock at the employee discount, waited patiently to be ‘vested’ (which required five years of service) in the ESOP and banked most of my meager 401(k) contributions in that good old TRB. Who didn’t? We all figured it was our little piggy bank - our reward for other sacrifices we made to practice our craft in the building with the flying buttresses.
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