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Comment on N&O’s Living in Style breathes its last by UK Data Centre

UK Data Centre — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:45:41 +0000

@Marco I know what your mean. In the current economy its tough to find a career that pays well and is stable . I have found that if you just work hard and are consistent you can succeed. Look at the author of this page , they are clearly a hard worker and have just been consistent over time and are now enjoying at least what would appear as somewhat of a success. I would encourage everyone to just keep hustling and moving forward.

Comment on Miami paper collecting readers’ donations by Miami Herald puts tip jar back under the counter « The Medium, The Message

Miami Herald puts tip jar back under the counter « The Medium, The Message — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:55:19 +0000

[...] of articles on MiamiHerald.com and ElNuevoHerald.com enabled donations, Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal said it had “elicited an encouraging steam of gifts, ranging from $2 to [...]

Comment on Analyst warns against McClatchy bond sale by florida claims adjuster

florida claims adjuster — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:44:16 +0000

What I want to know is what the “professional investment managers” are telling their retired customers to do about their retirement income? What is being said to retirees that hold these bonds? What will the federal gov do if these start to fail? Bail them out through inflation?

Comment on Analyst warns against McClatchy bond sale by avmed

avmed — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:58:40 +0000

I just buy corporate bond funds with intermediate target maturities. Corporate bonds are still paying a little bit, and Corporate America is fairly healthy right now. Whether they can keep the bottom line stable with a constantly shrinking customer base (thanks to a shrinking number of gainfully employed people) is a legitimate question, but it’s a stretch to say they can’t service their debt of the next seven years if they are investment-grade now. Even though inflation is a near certainty, we still don’t know when it’s coming, and there’s no point, in my opinion, bailing now when it could be two or three years. In any event, the inflation is much more likely to be Jimmy Carter-style vs. Zimbabwe-style, and Carter-style inflation won’t drive intermediate term bonds down in price anywhere nearly as bad as what you’d call a bubble asset, like a dot-bomb stock or a house out in the Arizona desert. As for treasuries, there’s not much point in investing in them now even without a bubble scare. The returns are so pitiful, you might as well hide the cash in your mattress. TIPS are a fine concept, but you had better have your TIPS in some kind of tax-advantaged account, since the nominal return is taxable. Since the rate on them is essentially zero above inflation, when inflation picks up your economic loss will be the nominal return times your tax rate.

Comment on The next threat: digital coupons by Newspaper pre-prints the next victim of online? « The Medium, The Message

Newspaper pre-prints the next victim of online? « The Medium, The Message — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:06:22 +0000

[...] Scarborough Research report last August said about 7 percent of U.S. households get their coupons from Web sites and about 8 percent get them via text messages or e-mail. In [...]

Comment on Atlanta offers automated ad campaigns by David

David — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:09:21 +0000

This will be fun! I wonder how many WP images on human body are going to come up!

Comment on Paid-content system on its way by Lisa Jeffries

Lisa Jeffries — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:57:39 +0000

Does anyone else think it’s really tacky to start with the obituaries section, of all things?

And I could be wrong, but I seem to remember a time where you couldn’t read full articles on NewsObserver.com without logging in and having your account associated with a paid subscription. Am I remembering it wrong?

Comment on SCOTUS clears way for corporate political ads by Open the local floodgates « The Medium, The Message

Open the local floodgates « The Medium, The Message — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:49:44 +0000

[...] Wasserman, Knight professor of journalism ethics at Washington & Lee University, says the Supreme Court’s January ruling that corporations have a right to advertise their political views is “Christmas in [...]

Comment on Firm defends outsourced copy editing by Toronto Star holds onto copy editing « The Medium, The Message

Toronto Star holds onto copy editing « The Medium, The Message — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:40:17 +0000

[...] editing jobs would have been outsourced to a firm called Pagemasters, which does contracted work for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age in Melbourne and the New Zealand [...]

Comment on Editing not a ‘core function’ for newspaper by Toronto Star hold onto copy editing « The Medium, The Message

Toronto Star hold onto copy editing « The Medium, The Message — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:38:13 +0000

[...] paper announced the plan in November, then said union concessions could keep it from happening. On Monday, editor Michael Cooke [...]