So Much Silence (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008 | Music
This one is making its way quickly around the Internets, but with Calexico being from Arizona and all, it’s my duty to spread the wealth. The band recently teased us with a video trailer for the new album, Carried to Dust (due out Sept. 9 … two days after my birthday … just sayin’.). I’ve always [...]
Twitter Blog (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008 | Technology
We're happy to announce two new members of our investment team: Bijan Sabet with Spark Capital in Boston and Jeff Bezos of Bezos Expeditions in Seattle. Bijan has also accepted a seat on our board of directors. We're looking forward to the guidance and advice both will bring to Twitter. Existing partners Union Square Ventures in New York City and Tokyo-based Digital Garage exercised their pro rata...
Gorilla Radio blog (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Izzy Stone, Patron Saint of Bloggers By CommonDreams.org by Jeff Cohen It was nineteen years ago this week that I.F. (Izzy) Stone died. The legendary blogger was 81. Confused? You say he died years before web blogs were invented? Well, yeah, but when I think of today’s blunt, fact-based online hell-raisers, my mind quickly flashes on Izzy Stone. You may think of Josh Marshall or Glenn Greenwald or...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
Bo and Jeff's Trip Around (Part of) the World
MediaChannel (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
By Jeff Cohen, Common Dreams Before there was an Internet, Izzy Stone was doing the work we associate with today's best bloggers.
Metal Lungies (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Does it frustrate you how the face of popular music and its accompanied art has evolved and lost most artistic credibility? Is it a product of disinterest by the fans or just the commercialization of the whole industry? JJ: Not really. The classic days of the album cover ended with CDs and videos, [...]
Technology Blog (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Stone channel, which will feature daily dynamic news and video content from Rolling Stone and exclusive content from the Rolling Stone vaults. The technology enables Rolling Stone to showcase their content in high-definition format and allows for access to PluggedIn’s content library featuring more than 10,000 HD and broadcast quality music videos from Universal Music [...]
kare11.com - Business News (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Some homeowners are passing on traditional wood framing, instead creating a home made of concrete
Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Phillip Adams; The Australian, 26/7/08; Some of the juiciest tidbits in this column came from a chat with Jeff Sharlet, a contributing editor to Harper’s and Rolling Stone who has been studying the Family for years. For a detailed dossier, read his book The Family: Power, Politics and Fundamentalism’s Shadow Elite; UQP. The Family. A comforting [...]
PREA Prez (Free subscription) | yesterday
Those who have read this blog over the years know that I am not one who is dismissive of all pay for performance plans. I don’t believe that the present standard salary schedule of steps-and-lanes is or needs to be etched in Stone. But Michelle Rhee, head of the Washington DC schools and darling of [...]
Anchor Rising (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yes, politics, wonkery, ideology are part of the AR raison d'etre, but Peter Robinson lends some nice perspective:Opening my in box just now for the first time in some 30 hours, I found several emails asking if I’d like to...
Media Blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The other side of the Drudge red headline on Obama#39;s visit to the Western Wall: Clearing security at the Tel Aviv airport is such an achievement th... . . .
Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Pool Report No. 1 July 24, 2008 Jerusalem Senator Barack Obama left the King David Hotel at 5 a.m. and made the short drive in his motorcade to the Western Wall. The visit was unnanounced by the campaign, but dozens...
Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Pool Report No. 1 July 24, 2008 Jerusalem Senator Barack Obama left the King David Hotel at 5 a.m. and made the short drive in his motorcade to the Western Wall. The visit was unnanounced by the campaign, but dozens...
Blog Specials (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
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