HometownLocator offers lots of info on 42,500 U.S. cities, towns and ZIP Codes. Tip: ResearchBuzz.
Web/print roles continue changing
Minonline: How Not to Be Your Print Magazine Online. “Most brands have gotten beyond that early online impulse to recreate their magazines online and have discovered that extending a brand online means locating and focusing on its core competency in a task-oriented Web environment.”
Examples: “At People Online, the staff recently moved onto the same floor as the print side, yet the editorial direction of the Web site has become much more focused on a core competency, using the Web to break celebrity news.” and at “Fortune.com the emphasis has turned to print archives for financial researchers and deeper versions of the famous “lists” of corporate and individual wealth.”
Oligopoly Watch on solar power and big-box retailers
Oligopoly Watch: Betting on solar power. This entry by Steve Hannaford looks at how large energy and technologies dominante the field. A few days earlier, he had this entry, “Wal-Mart and the landscape,” looking at the difficulty of filling their space when the Wal-Mart and other giant retailers move into other buildings in the area or close.
A rosy retirement
NY Times: “How to Avoid Living Like a Poor Student at Age 70” by Ben Stein. Putnam Investments releases this week a survey of 2,000 recent retirees (within six years) finding they are money-worried, cash-strapped and dependent on Social Security, but they say they are satisfied. A PDF of the press release of the survey is available.
Web writing overview
Bob Stepno’s Other Journalism Weblog: “Writing Styles for the Web.” An outline of writing styles and links to examples of the various types of journalism writing, including print, broadcast and blog.
Typeface for highway signs changing
Typographica.com: Clearview: A New Typeface for US Highways. The designer of Clearview spent 8 years developing it. Tip from kottke.org.
Good reading from ACBJ — Nov. 8
Atlanta Business Chronicle: City revisits panhandling laws: CAP/King & Spalding study may suggest ‘blue box’ zones
Cincinnati Business Courier: With Joy sales slumping, it was time for P&G to clean it up
San Francisco Business Times: Limbering up gay business: S.F. backs entrepreneurs
Siding and free speech
Wired News: Careful Where You Complain. Ga. couple is unhappy with siding job on their house, complains on web site, and N.C. manufacturer of product sues. The issue now becomes a free speech issue.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson was an inspirational photographer. In photography classes and afterwards, I’d be amazed at his work. I also admired W. Eugene Smith and Margaret Bourke-White.
Today I came across this 2000 Washington Post essay about a Cartier-Bresson exhibit then. I had read a passing mention about his death earlier this year.
For quick views of work by Smith, Bourke-White, Weegee and others try Masters of Photography web site.