In credit card bill, 12 point is minimum size font on terms and conditions. http://bit.ly/oK9xI
Bizjournals to be home of Portfolio.com — reading around May 20
Bizjournals:Portfolio.com moving to bizjournals in July
and AllThingsDigital: Portfolio Lives! Sort Of: Web Site Adopted by Condé Nast’s Corporate Cousin.
ReadWriteWeb: Digg: Shouts Out, Share on Facebook and Twitter In — Facebooks and Twitter and maybe Linked-in are becoming the hot linking, networking sites.
AllThingsDigital: Smartphones Selling Far Better Than Dumb Ones — iPhone sold more than 3.9 million handsets in Q1. Non-smart cell phones saw sales drop.
CSMonitor: Why journalists deserve low pay — it was hard to read, but hard to dispute too.
Wages are compensation for value creation. And journalists simply aren’t creating much value these days.
Until they come to grips with that issue, no amount of blogging, twittering, or micropayments is going to solve their failing business models.
WSJ: Orszag: Economy’s Freefall ‘Seems to Have Stopped’
ReadWriteWeb: The Dam Just Broke: Facebook Opens Up to OpenID — Fewer registration windows, fewer passwords to remember, but will web sites lose connections with readers?
Six Apart: Before switching to WordPress, I used MoveableType for several years. Six Apart. Now Six Apart is playing nice with WordPress by offering several of their tools including an ad network, anti-spam and services for WordPress Users.
The “Looming Tower” by Laweren…
The “Looming Tower” by Lawerence Wright is a great book on Al-Qaeda and the the path to 9/11 http://bit.ly/16GtNr
Big news @bizjournals — Portf…
Big news @bizjournals — Portfolio.com will be relaunched in July under the umbrella of bizjournals. http://bit.ly/fIYbq
Not good news: 940 smaller ban…
Not good news: 940 smaller banks face big losses in commercial real estate loans. http://bit.ly/7yKx1
RT@bizjournals Twitter founder…
RT@bizjournals Twitter founder Biz Stone says Twitter will not use ads, saying ads do not interest them http://bit.ly/uQRkd
Swine flu deaths: 61. U.S…
Swine flu deaths: 61. U.S. Seasonal flu deaths: 36,000 a year. Should seasonal flu be a bigger health concern? http://bit.ly/htrpZ
RT @bizjournalsList of all clo…
RT @bizjournalsList of all closing Chrysler dealers (PDF) http://bit.ly/CEh4
RT @toddbishop Why Washington …
RT @toddbishop Why Washington gave tax break to newspapers, and not to blogs http://bit.ly/UHKZB
Newspaper chain will try pay model — reading around May 13
Denver Business Journal: Denver Post, MediaNews plan to start charging for Web news — many have been talking ending the give-away of print content. It will be interesting to see what content is put behind the wall.
ReadWriteWeb: Twitter Puts a Muzzle on Your Friends: Goodbye People I Never Knew (Updated)