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"Shocked trader" caption contest!!

"Wall Street slides amid global panic"

"Wobbly world markets plunge Dow below 10000"

"US stocks beaten up as investors look for Fed cuts"

Posted on October 8th, 2008 at 2:25pm — 2 Comments

The live Web: buildings vs. rivers

Doc Searls doesn't say which industry he was talking to, but in describing the static nature of their Web sites, it could easily have been newspapers:

They were architected, designed and constructed. They were conceived and built on the real estate model: domains with addresses, places people could visit. They were necessary and sufficient for the old Static Web, but lacked sufficiency for the Live one.…

Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

Homegrown hyperlocal

Banging the hyperlocal drum isn't anything new, but the big problem I've had with it is that as a reporter, chicken-dinner news is -- frankly -- a bore. I do subscribe to the notion that the workings of government, grassroots advocacy and local characters all add up to an understanding of the formal "living in a city" coverage that a news organization should report. But when it comes to little details, it can turn "beat reporter" into a declarative statement. So when I read… Continue

Posted on September 24th, 2008 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Trying to get a handle on this market bailout business

So, like millions of others this weekend, my wife and I sat and talked about the looming billions (trillions?) set to head to failed Wall Street investment banks. The big question on our minds: Why, exactly, should we be forced into assuming the debt of those who made bad investments or enticed others into risky (or, as is increasingly coming to light, downright reckless) behavior? I'm no economist, so I can't speak to the health of worldwide markets. But I do balance a checkbook every month. An… Continue

Posted on September 22nd, 2008 at 10:00am —

(Re)Building a blog network.

Oregon bloggers have been benefiting from a site called ORBlogs since 2003, an aggregator that allowed bloggers to be listed and promote content and gave readers a chance to find them by location or popularity. ORBlogs founder (who had a hand in creating code for the original Blogger software) Paul Bausch said it was just getting to be too much for one person to handle and is throwing in the towel:

When I started ORblogs in March 2003, th…

Posted on September 10th, 2008 at 10:18am — 3 Comments