Lost Remote (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
I thought it was interesting that a blogger for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer here in Seattle made fun of KING-TV’s “pull the plug” digital TV test. You know, the test that dozens of stations around the country are doing — switching to digital for a few seconds to alert analog viewers that they need to [...]
Switched (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Filed under: Computers Readers of the Seattle Times and Seattle Post Intelligencer Web sites may have unknowingly had their computers infected with a virus, the Times reported on Tuesday. Gabriels, an online ad vendor that hosts advertising for NWAutos and placed ads in the two newspapers and other online destinations, had its servers infected with a virus between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Pacific Time last...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Google has marked pages on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer web site with the warning, "This site may harm your computer" because of a computer virus potentially spread through advertisements shown on the site,
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Did you know there was such a thing as the Cat Writers' Association ? There is, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer cat blogger Roberta Beach Jacobson is a member. Interesting strategy on the part of the P-I ; they're hosting a slew of pet blogs written by "civilians," rather than the newspaper staff. One of these days I'm going to have to ask somebody how that's working out—and then I'm going to think...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Republican leaders in the Washington Legislature want an investigation into Gov. Christine Gregoire's negotiations on tribal gambling.The gambling compact expanded tribal casinos without revenue sharing with the state, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported. The newspaper reported last week that some of the tribes made campaign contributions to Gregoire and other Democratic candidates.In a letter...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
Here's how a writer on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer website decided that Courtney Love might front a reunited version of her late husband's band Nirvana this summer: First, a writer for the local...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
FBI officials say plans to build up anti-crime efforts will continue to take a back seat to national security.The Bush administration's 2009 budget doesn't include additional agents to tackle crimes such as bank robbery and mortgage fraud, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said Monday.The newspaper said the budget reflects a trend toward shifting FBI resources to counter-terrorism without covering the...
TheNewspaper (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
A city traffic engineer admitted reducing the length of yellow lights at downtown Seattle, Washington intersections by half-a-second. Seattle Traffic Management Director Wayne Wentz told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper that the reduction was not designed to increase the profit of the city's expanding red light camera program. Instead, the changes made at more than 200 intersections in March...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
By Anonymous As a result of tests funded by the Seattle Post -Intelligencer newspaper, which showed that professional cooks might be exposed to butter flavoring that contains diacetyl, three House of Representatives committee leaders have sent a letter to the director of NIOSH requesting a systematic evaluation of workers exposed to the respiratory hazard.
The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
We have another item to add to Bill O'Reilly's record of wrongness. In this case, he smeared a major newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and sicced stalker-producer Jesse Watters on the editor at his home to demand he defend his decision to not run photos of two men deemed to be "acting suspiciously" on a ferry. Turns out the paper was correct to not participate in the unfounded fearmongering...
Impact Lab (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Sometime in the next two years, if Hearst Corp.’s plans work out, a handful of Seattle Post-Intelligencer readers will begin getting their morning news not from the paper on the front stoop or by dropping change in a corner newsbox — or even on their laptop — but from a new electronic newspaper that’s displayed [...]
China Digital Times (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Cox Newspaper's Craig Simmons returns to the question of business dealings as an explanation for why Western politicians may be loathe to protest too much over China's handling of the Tibetan riots, via the Seattle Post Intelligencer: During his first visit to China last week, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue stressed ...
