Eubie's notes

It’s a bus-only lane, but some drivers just have to see if they can get through the lane in time.

Online Journalism Review: Easy Web publishing utilities for journalists — New York Times online producer Jonathan Morgan shares a utility bag full of nifty tools for budding journalists to add pop to any Web content. Article covers blogging, multimedia, generating RSS feeds, forum and HTML and CSS.

NY Times: Lure of Great Wealth Affects Career Choices looks at how Wall Street is so lucrative that doctors, lawyers and others are leaving their primary professions to receive the huge rewards there.

A decade into the practice of medicine, still striving to become “a well regarded physician-scientist,” Robert H. Glassman concluded that he was not making enough money. So he answered an ad in the New England Journal of Medicine from a business consulting firm hiring doctors.

And today, after moving on to Wall Street as an adviser on medical investments, he is a multimillionaire.

Washington Post — U.S. Army Battling To Save Equipment: Field upon field of more than 1,000 battered M1 tanks, howitzers and other armored vehicles sit amid weeds here at the 15,000-acre Anniston Army Depot — the idle, hulking formations symbolic of an Army that is wearing out faster than it is being rebuilt.

USA Today: ‘Little Book’ delves into value investing — There is something heartening about a serious investing book that is sharply written, gets you fired up about buying stocks …. Book is The Little Book of Value Investing by Christopher Browne, managing director of Tweedy Browne Co. Browne begins by sharing the history of Tweedy Browne, founded by his father, Howard Browne, in 1945. Two of the brokerage’s early clients: Benjamin Graham, who essentially created the discipline of value investing, and his young associate named Warren Buffett.

Seattle PI: Employers limiting the comforts of drone — Far fewer American office workers personalize their work spaces today than did so a decade ago.

Washington Post: A Newspaper Chain Sees Its Future, And It’s Online and Hyper-Local — Gannett is testing mobile journalists — reporters with laptops, digital audio recorders and cameras — who spend their days traveling around their cities filing stories for the web, and sometimes the print editions, too. The journalist’s goal is to generate fresh content throughout the day for the web and push the publication’s focus to more local coverage. In Fort Myers, Fla., Gannett expects to have 30 mobile journalists on staff by the end of 2007 — all working without offices. The Fort Myers
News-Press has also turned to citizen experts, such as retired city officials, to help with investigations. While the paper’s print circulation has fallen, traffic to its web site has more than doubled in the past year.

This is a follow-up to Gannett’s news experiement.

NY Times: Advertising: Shorthand for a Holiday: Ralphie, the BB Gun and the Flagpole — In the last decade, the movie ?A Christmas Story? has become a cult classic that has made it a holiday gleam in the eyes of advertisers.

Wall Street Journal: How Wal-Mart Influences Rivals and Inflation — Wal-Mart plans to cut prices aggressively through the end of the year — a strategy that could force other discounters to respond. That could have a noticeable effect on the U.S. economy as it weathers the housing slump.

Christian Science Monitor: In Britain, wind turbines offer homespun electricity — Miniature windmills are the latest ‘must have’ eco-accessory for green-minded urbanites.