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Re: “A rare visit to my hometown, Moline”
Kathleen, this is great and I didn't mind the "being dragged to church" part. I learned something new about Bobby that I didn't know. Good piece!
Re: “North American exclusive: Album stream of Willis Earl Beal's Acousmatic Sorcery”
Only got here after reading about how he got arrested, but kinda glad he did, so I could hear this!
Re: “12 O'Clock Track: Lau Nau, "Painovoimaa, Valoa"”
New album by Lau Nau will be released in the autumn of 2012. http://www.fonal.com/news.php
Re: “Times-Picayune scales back, but can an iPad produce the same intimacy?”
@Alan Solomon AND The original IAC
You'll both be interested in this, which precedes Ross Douthat and has a lot more explanation than he offered in his NYT piece Sunday:
http://www.technologyreview.com/web/40437/…
Essentially, what it says is that in Facebook's case, while it can make money, the money it makes per user is tiny and is never likely to be much more. I believe it's about $5 a year -- which, coincidentally, is similar to the New York Times's $4 per year for its online readers. And the secular trend in these numbers is one of decline. (Re Facebook's IPO, I've read elsewhere that they'd need to jack up their annual per-user value to about $20 to justify the initial stock price of $38 a share. Trouble is, they haven't the foggiest idea how to do that, and it's not even clear they know how to keep the current $5 per user from edging down.)
Also in Facebook's case, it pretty much has the world saturated. Short of a crash program in interplanetary exploration, Facebook can't scale up in terms of user numbers to any significant degree. And no one, after many years of trying, has found a way to boost the value that advertisers attach to capturing the a given pair of consumer eyes online. (Advertisers, by the way, are beginning to catch on to the scam. Witness GM pulling its paid ads off Facebook.)
The growth in mobile devices with the possibility of location/demographic-specific marketing has offered some small ray of hope. But even that isn't panning out. Newspapers that were trading dimes for dollars by putting their product on laptops and PCs are now finding that mobile ads are worth a good deal less, exchanging pennies for dollars. And that experience holds for nearly for all online products.
As for paywalls, forget it. Newspapers are finding that the revenue they generate from paywalls doesn't amount to much and barely makes up for the ad revenue lost due to readers who are turned away. (The value of paywalls -- despite what newspapers will tell you -- is that they tend to reduce the rate of loss of paying print subscribers.)
AOL's Patch is losing about 10 times its revenue per year. The Huffington Post, having finally hired some of its own journalists, is now thought to be losing money. A handful of journalistic websites are reported doing well, although actual numbers are elusive and squirrelly. Publications such as The Atlantic and the Financial Times fall into this category.
In general, though, the Web is a now not-so-freshly dug grave for the backbone and vitals of American journalism, the major metro newspaper. Moreover, it's not a very healthy venue for the vast majority of online enterprises of any sort that depend on advertising. And that's probably the way it ought to be.
Re: “Sam Maguire's Traditional Irish Pub & Restaurant”
closed and building for sale.
Re: “Sam Maguire's Traditional Irish Pub & Restaurant”
Closed for some time, building for sale,
Re: “Gino's East”
Closed for year and a half, and now a 5 guys hamburger place
Re: “The Great Debaters: Alderman Joe Moore and I go at it”
Don't believe this corrupt pol
Re: “Joe Moore's First City Job”
Joe Moore smells like feces
Re: “Joe Moore's First City Job”
Joe Moore sucks donkey dick
Re: “Times-Picayune scales back, but can an iPad produce the same intimacy?”
I haven't read the Op-Ed you are talking about but I'm pretty sure that Google is generally considered to be at least as much of a digital-era success as Apple and certainly Amazon. And Facebook has been starting to hit that point as well. Obviously, neither of these companies "have business models that are firmly rooted in the production and delivery of nonvirtual goods". And a much greater portion of both Apple and Amazon's business is non-physical with each passing year. So the conclusion quoted seems to be very over-broad. But I'll check the Op-Ed shortly, including finding out who wrote it.
Re: “Summer Guide: Fairs and festivals”
This is great but listed alphabetically is not really as useful as listed chronologically. Thanks for the guide, maybe next year you could do it by dates. Best.
Re: “How I learned to never go out of style”
You forgot her mink wedding dress that she wore when she married Dick Roman. It was partly a publicity stunt- and it worked. :-) (see linked article):
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page5340389
Re: “While you were distracted by NATO ...”
ben youre cool but not much as you think
rather than trying to humiliate someone w/ a differing p-o-v
hows about passing on that and penning constructive?
like i say your wit impresses but the snark is off putting to say the least
as for mayor emanuel (how i dreaded that fact coming to pass) it is quite disheartening
this 'meet the new boss same as the old boss' is here once again
i was bummed but not surprised chicagoans voted him in
8-15 mil dc to wall st cashout for this guy?
may not be illegal (not sure still) but as morally corrupt as it gets
this man is the single most frightening politician ive ever seen
'don't let a crisis go to waste' has to be the alltime nauseatingest quote
ive ever read politics-wise
closing it is good to read smart involved people's comment tho
peace
Re: “Best overall neighborhood”
This Chicago son married an Canadian moved to Toronto in 1997. While Logan Square wasn't the most attractive place to live at the time, the improvements to the area is really impressive. I could live there if fate brought me back home. :-)
Re: “Animal Kingdom”
missed it in the theatres saw it last night on dvd
the movie quite got me in a vice and tightened the grip
and pope is now right up there on my creepiest scariest character of alltime list
every bit lived up the the accolades id heard about it
the dvd's extras included actor/actress interviews and i was
actually kinda taken back to realize the characters werent really real
i mean that's how effective the performances were
they sure as hell sold me
damn what a movie
Re: “Aliens”
I'm not sure this reviewer and I saw the same two films. I love action films, and I love James Cameron action films but this movie is just that: an action film. The original Alien has never been surpassed by any of its sequels...or any other space horror films for that matter. Aliens is a very very entertaining movie that delivers the typical clichés: the tough-talkin', bad-ass soldiers, the cigar-chewing commander, the slimy corporate double-crosser, etc, etc. Alien, on the other hand, is impressive as a space thriller that doesn' t rely on explosions and guts to build tension, or needs to show us the monster to scare us. The dialogue and acting are top-notch in their realism and simplicity, i.e. never over the top, unlike other movies in any genre. We feel as though we are peeking in on a real space crew tshat happens to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Alien brings the influence of many other stories and still manages to be original, Aliens is simply a GOOD copy on steroids.
One of the things that i liked about Alien was the lack of elaborate sets: the ship was the rough and simple setting you'd expect a real mining space crew to inhabit. I'm anxiously awaiting Prometheus, although by the highly polished look of the trailers I fear that Ridley Scott fell for the allure of today's computer-generated effects.
Re: “Holy Shakes, House That Gloria Vanderbilt, Precious Blood”
Let's put this one another way....Billy Spunke, Todd Pott, Nora O'Connor, Danny Black...oh, yes, let's not forget a scintillating Burlesque troupe. Get yourself down to the Double Door on Saturday night for your own good.
Re: “Short takes on recent reissues”
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