Eubie's notes

N.Y. Times: I.R.S. Says Americans’ Income Shrank for 2 Consecutive Years. The unprecedented back-to-back declines in reported incomes was caused primarily by the combination of the big fall in the stock market and the erosion of jobs and wages in well-paying industries in the early years of the decade.

You’ve got to wonder what’s going on at Dow Jones these days.

In last Thursday’s Wall Street Journal: Array of New Rivals For Ad Dollars Slows Comeback of Print. Online and TV doing a better job of proving their effectiveness, some publishers considering RFID (radio-frequency identification devices) to prove print readers are more engaged.

Last Thursday’s Barron’s Online: The Print Media’s Malaise Runs Deep. Growth in households with internet access is rising while decline of newspaper’s household penetration means exodous of print will accelerate.

Tuesday’s WSJ Online Ad Dollars Set to Match,Then Go Ahead of Magazines’: Forecast Cites Web’s Skill At Targeting an Audience; Is Print Losing Its Appeal? Prediction is online will pass magazines in 2007, base on JupiterResearch .

For a counter, read Dubious on Rex Hammock’s Weblog: Sorry. This research just doesn’t pass the smell test. (That won’t keep it from being plugged into business-plan spread sheets in real-time, however.) Actually, a more interesting story would be “the history of online advertising predictions from JupiterResearch”…

There’s also Jarvis’ Buzzword: There’s gold in these thar hills and a folllow from Hammock: Jupiter Research’s Fuzzy Math.

BuzzWord: A blog list for media guys. Fortunately most have RSS feeds, making it easier to skim.

Wired: The Empire Blogs Back. Small companies, such as Six Apart, and big companies, such as Microsoft find that blogs have led to better customer relationships, though the path has not always been smooth.

Baltimore Business Journal: Evolving loans: Corporate America slowly phasing out executive perk

Houston Business Journal: Employers walking thin line on weighty issue of employee obesity

Puget Sound Business Journal: Starbucks managers sue company for overtime pay

Atlanta Business Chronicle: 30-second TV ads lose fizz for Coke

Boston Business Journal: Law firms’ profits jump on business rebound

Business First of Louisville: Summer picnics help area Catholic parishes generate added funds in era of tight budgets

Orlando Business Journal: Local companies snap up terrorism coverage

N.Y. Times: >On the Road, Avoiding Pitfalls at the Pit Stops.

Current: Monkeywrench by P.J. Tracy
Finished: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith, a Newberry Medal winner

A body to die for by Kate White

Dead aim by Iris Johansen

The midwife’s apprentice by Karen Cushman. A Newberry Medal winner

Audio

Finished: Robert E. Lee by Roy Blunt

Pertinent Essays on the literary life by Joseph Epstein

A bookstore in N.J. can print a paperback version of your book in 17 minutes. Ten copies for $150. The book printer can also print up to 10,000 public-domain titles, according to article in NY Times.

If they understand what we’re saying, thank goodness they can’t talk.