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March 31, 2008

The New Yorker has quite an in-depth piece about the state of newsprint. The industry has reported a 42% decrease in market value in the last few years and since 1990 a full 25% of related jobs have disappeared. It has been long known that the Internet would take a big bite out of print media, but what seems to have alarmed some people is just how quickly things have accelerated.

On a similar topic, the New York Times has an article about how youth are relying on social networks and online tools rather than traditional media to read – and share – important news stories. I had my eyes opened a little during the last federal election. I created a blog and developed a few satirical videos that I uploaded to a video sharing site. I was amazed at how quickly the videos received hits, (each one into the thousands), and spread across the blogosphere. Bloggers were linking to, and even embedding my videos into their blogs – and the twist was that they were bloggers supporting different political parties and ideologies.

Search Engine Watch columnist, Marty Weintraub, has an interesting article outlining how religious, political wars are being fought over Google’s search engine rankings. In particular, he discusses how Jews have fought to lower the ranking of an anti-Semitic web site using what is called ‘Google bombing” techniques.

… and for something completely different …

Are we there yet?

The Simpsons Universal Studios has launched a microsite for the new Simpson’s attraction that will be opening very soon in Orlando, Florida. I’m a huge Simpson’s geek, and it was quite the tease to see the ride when I was just at Universal at the beginning of March and not be able to go on it. Well, there was some consolation in the fact that I was able to take my son’s picture in front of the Kwik-E-Mart.

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