September 2009
LRAD ’sonic cannon’ debuts in U.S. at G20 protests →
Via dailyfinance.com:
Pittsburgh police on Thursday used an audio cannon manufactured by American Technology Corporation (ATCO), a San Diego-based company, to disperse…
Lockheed Martin’s Samurai Monocopter →
Eventually, the SAMARAI project was supposed to produce a nanomonocopter (?) about the same size as a seed pod (on the order of 1.5 inches long and 10 grams in weight), driven…
A View from Beyond →
Via adamned.art’s photostream.
Cave Music →
Performers Katelyn Clark and Xenia Pestova will play multiple toy pianos and portable percussion instruments, placed strategically throughout the cave’s winding passages. Canadian Music…
Geordi LaForge video-to-brain rig built at MIT →
The implanted chip, according to the MIT team behind it, features a “microfabricated polyimide stimulating electrode array with sputtered iridium oxide electrodes” which is implanted into…
Waiting →
Photo from ~EvidencE~’s photostream.
NYT "On Language" columnist Safire dies at 79 →
New York Times The cause was pancreatic cancer. William Safire, who wrote the New York Times Magazine’s “On Language” column from 1979 until earlier this month, “was hardly the image of a…
GlobalPost to provide CBS News with foreign news →
New York Times GlobalPost’s Philip Balboni says: “Having a broadcast network partner was a high priority for us, and to be associated with CBS News is a great validation of what we are trying to…
Kafka: Don't believe reports about Time Warner... →
All Things D “Time Warner without People? I can’t imagine it,” one TW official recently told Peter Kafka. Execs point out that the company’s flagship titles — Time, People and Sports Illustrated…
Capeci's "doing well enough to make a living" with... →
Washington Post
Veteran mob reporter Jerry Capeci charges $5 a month to read his Gang Land News on the web, and apparently many are paying. “At a time when newspapers are…
Bay Area's online news scene is finally popping →
Content Bridges | Los Angeles Times | Newsosaur It’s waking up from a prolonged period of somnolence, and pointing a way toward an online news renaissance across the country, Ken Doctor writes in…
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. objects to Philly... →
Wall Street Journal PBGC, the federal corporation that guarantees pension payouts for 44 million Americans, says the Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News publisher hasn’t made clear how it will address…
Star Tribune emerges from bankruptcy today →
Minneapolis Star Tribune The Minneapolis paper’s senior secured lenders will hold about 95% of the stock. The paper will have $100 million in debt, down from $480 million when it filed Chapter 11…
Kindle users protest WSJ's higher subscription fee →
ZDNet.com It went from $9.99 a month to $14.99 last month. One ex-subscriber complains that Amazon.com and WSJ didn’t alert users to the price increase, so “I canceled on principle.”
NYT assigns editor to monitor opinion media →
New York Times That person will brief top editors frequently on bubbling controversies. Executive editor Bill Keller declines to identify the editor, saying he wants to spare that person “a…
Additional items for September 28, 2009 →
> Editor explains uneven coverage of soldiers’ funerals > Reporter Mitchell is “a one-man justice machine” > Zero Hedge blogger becomes a cult hero | Reaction > Beck: “I am a flawed…
The importance of Safire's "nattering nabobs of... →
Philly Daily News | BillLucey.com | Post-Gazette | Daily Beast
“Nothing else that William Safire wrote would have the power or the impact of those four memorable words that…
Anonymous Wesleyan alum donates $20K to keep NYT... →
Wesleyan Argus In a recent survey, 75.4% of students said they read the Times and 49.3% claimed they read it every day. The alum’s gift pays for daily distribution of 400 papers.
WP editors say little about controversial social... →
WashingtonPost.com Here’s how it was handled:
Alexandria, VA: Is the newspaper’s new social media policy unnecessarily restrictive? Isn’t this a case of management that doesn’t understand social…
AP Stylebook now available in the App Store →
Associated Press
It costs $28.99. The 2009 AP Stylebook app features searchable listings for the main, sports, business and punctuation sections, along with the ability to…
Star-Ledger editor Willse tells staff he's... →
E&P Pub Managing editor Kevin Whitmer will succeed Jim Willse, who told his staff he’s leaving in about a month, reports Joe Strupp.
"Charlie Rose may be the hardest-working man on... →
Fortune.com
That’s what David Kaplan writes. Charlie Rose tells him: “I have five friends who are calling me up to go on their boats in the Mediterranean this week! But I’d…
"It's been a terrific run," says Star-Ledger's... →
Star-Ledger Star-Ledger editor Jim Willse told his staff Monday he intends to travel for a few months after retiring next month. He’ll then become a visiting professor at Princeton University,…
Dallas Morning News is "in great shape," says... →
“On the Media” “We’ve reduced our dependency on advertising,” says Jim Moroney. “The typical model for newspapers has been 80% advertising and 20% revenue from the people who buy the paper. By…
Keller says NYT will monitor right and left media →
The Plum Line “We haven’t assigned someone to be in charge of ‘opinion media,’” Bill Keller e-mails Greg Sargent. “We’ve asked a colleague who happens to be a voracious consumer of online…
Schultz: Anonymity on the web offends most... →
Cleveland Plain Dealer
“It breaks every rule newspapers have enforced for decades in letters to the editor, which require not only a name and a city of residence, but contact…
How can something be… →
…so disgusting and so hilarious at the same time?
Seriously, watch it all the way to the end. You’ll be amazed.
Pop it,
-Shady
VNOxn-paCHs
WP releases new social networking guidelines →
Washington Post Ombudsman Blog The Post “decided to accelerate the completion of these guidelines” after executive editor Marcus Brauchli was alerted to “items posted online that are incompatible…
Cyborg Beetles →
“We demonstrated the remote control of insects in free flight via an implantable radioequipped miniature neural stimulating system,” the researchers reported in their new…
Delayed →
Via imgfave.com.
Susan Atkins… →
…dead.
Sorry, but murderers don’t get videos.
Good riddance,
-Shady
TimesTalks LIVE discussions to be shown in... →
New York Times release About 75 locations in at least ten states will participate. The first TimesTalk LIVE event to be broadcast will be Charles McGrath’s chat with John Irving on Oct. 28….
Sun-Times unions have more time to negotiate terms... →
Chicago Tribune | Sun-Times
Sun-Times management and businessman Jim Tyree have demanded repeatedly that unions accept the stringent terms attached to Tyree’s bid for the…
Conde Nast considers closing some titles by end of... →
WWD Memo Pad Stephanie D. Smith hears that Conde Nast execs might close titles rather than endure budget cuts so extreme that production quality would be jeopardized or advertising and circulation…
"Big Russ" dies from natural causes at 85 →
msnbc.com Timothy Joseph Russert, father of the late “Meet the Press” moderator, “was affectionately known to the world as ‘Big Russ,’” says a statement from the family, but “he carried no more…
SF businessman, KQED, Berkeley j-school to launch... →
New York Times | Reflections of a Newsosaur The plan is to distribute news through multiple channels, including online, mobile, public TV and radio and print by early 2010. The founders have been…
New York Times agrees to voluntary buyouts →
From: NEWSPAPER GUILD MAILING Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:03:54 -0400 Subject: Guild UNION TIMES: ‘Cost-Saving’ Committee Meets To: [New York Times guild members] September 24, 2009
“Cost-Saving”…
Boston Newspaper Guild takes action against its... →
Boston Phoenix | Boston Globe
The guild’s executive committee tells members that president Daniel Totten “has engaged in conduct which appears to be violative of the…
MediaBistro.com owner eyes PaidContent.org →
DailyFinance Guardian News and Media is losing so much money it may be forced to sell assets, and one property that could be in play is PaidContent.org, reports Sam Gustin. “I would certainly be…
More features you'll find on Poynter Online →
* CBS’ Pitts on a secret revealed in his book * SideWiki distributes conversation about news * A reporter on her decision to let sources move in * How to be an interactive broadcast…
Brancaccio: "The bigger TV you have, the dumber... →
Santa Fe Reporter
David Brancaccio, host of NOW on PBS, also told Corey Pein during a visit to Santa Fe’s public TV station: * “Smart people have TVs, often — but not…
Globe union president accused of signing... →
Boston Globe Globe sources say Boston Newspaper Guild president Daniel Totten signed the name of another union officer on a check that required a countersignature, prompting the Guild’s executive…
WSJ exec says charging for mobile is "a... →
paidContent.org “The issue for us was about smart pricing, not the issue that everybody talks about publicly, which is do you charge or not,” says Wall Street Journal Digital Network president …
Additional items for September 25, 2009 →
> Indiana publisher denied entry into Kygyzstan > Shafer on Atlantic owner’s event: Why, why why? > How to improve NYT arts coverage (part two) > Publisher: “Government support is a…
Patriots owner to sell ads for ESPNBoston.com →
Boston Globe | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “It has to raise a conflict of interest,” says Boston University advertising and sports marketing prof Chris Cakebread. “We’re supposed to be about…
"60M" producer has finally learned to say no to... →
NPR.org
Jeff Fager says it took some time to find sure footing after taking over as “60 Minutes” executive producer five years ago. “I wasn’t ready for the fact that so many…
Philly union: Management's proposals would gut our... →
From: Guild Bulletin Sent: Fri 9/25/2009 3:44 PM Subject: This is Keeping it Local? Company Seeks to Outsource Jobs, Destroy Contract.
Dear Guild member, This morning Guild leadership sat down to…
U. of Colorado: No press passes for sites that... →
Westword
University of Colorado’s athletics department doesn’t give press passes to websites lacking a print or broadcast component unless they ban pseudonymous posts or…
WSJ decision to charge for online edition "less... →
Wall Street Journal
Ex-Dow Jones chairman Peter Kann says the company had “a tradition and culture that always had placed high value on news and that always had expected…
New Chromeo music… for free!!! →
P-Thugg and Dave 1 (also known as the synth-funk duo Chromeo) released the new single “Night By Night” today thanks to the kind folks at Green Label Sound.
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