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November 10, 2007
The four-hour guru
NY Times: Too Much Information? Ignore It Timothy Ferriss, author of "The 4-Hour Workweek," has a receptive audience from those hoping to get done four hours what it takes most people 5 days. Many scoff at his idea:
Nevertheless, without appearing on Oprah Winfrey’s show or doing a book tour, Mr. Ferriss has seen his book quickly become a best seller, largely on the strength of blog chatter in the tech community. Subsequently, he has become a pet guru of Silicon Valley, precisely by preaching apostasy in the land of shiny gadgets: just pull the plug. Crawl out from beneath the reams of data. Stand firm against the torrent of information.
Posted by eubie at 2:42 PM permalink
Circulation contines falling at top dailies
No surprise that newspaper circulation is down 2.5 percent at the country's largest daily newspapers, according to Editor & Publisher. The daily newspaper industry is in a circulation decline that I don't think it will reverse. Advertising revenue might hold on longer, but it will soon follow. Papers are trying to get the dollars moved online, but that will be difficult.
In Fortune's Can the Washington Post survive? it was telling:
The best evidence of the difference is the fact that advertisers paid about $573 million last year to reach readers of the company's newspapers, predominantly the 673,900 daily and 937,700 Sunday subscribers to the Post. Advertisers paid only about $103 million to reach the eight million unique visitors to the Post's Web sites each month.
Posted by eubie at 11:47 AM permalink
Not worrying about what you can't hear
Wall Street Journal columnist Terry Teachout writes in The Deaf Audiophile that while iPods and MP3 players don't deliver a highest-quality music sound, it doesn't matter to him. As we get older we lose the ability to hear the difference. So now he enjoys the convenience of the new devices without worrying about what he can't hear, such as the higher frequencies.
That's why I'm more than content to listen to "The Rite of Spring" on my trusty iPod. Would that my presbycusic ears were capable of distinguishing between great and good sound -- but at least they still know the infinitely more important difference between sound and silence.
Posted by eubie at 11:33 AM permalink