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  • commenter
    Aug 05 05:53 PM
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    Too Late for Newspapers to Turn the Tide? [view article]
    As a former project director/consultant for a mega city media group, I often come across many small and large newspaper groups who provide web video links to their glocal audience. So, not ALL publishers ignore beneficial and justified advice/recommendations... Reply
  • Too Late for Newspapers to Turn the Tide? [view article]
    About two years ago I was the webmaster for 8 (now 4) papers in Central California. I told the Publisher, that I was putting video online and gave him a target date. I was ignored. Then I did it on the target date. I was shooting local video and putting it online. A month later I was told to pull the video because we had no policy and ad people did not want the extra work of selling commercials. I now work for a Business publication in the Central valley in which 75% of the feature stories we do is with video. Reply
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    Aug 05 09:12 AM
    Bad Week (and Decade) for Newspapers [view article]
    Newspapers and traditional media compete via litigation not by inovation. It's their culture.... That is why the legal budgets for news exceeds the editorial budgets.

    What is worse is that the national news media in the USA is still predominantly a monopoly controlled by the associated press...and we all know how they feel about the internet.
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    Aug 04 03:27 PM
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    31 S&P 500 Stocks with Negative 3 FY Net Income [view article]
    No I mean average Reply
  • commenter
    Aug 04 01:18 PM
    31 S&P 500 Stocks with Negative 3 FY Net Income [view article]
    I think you mean cumulative 3 year losses, not average.
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    Aug 03 04:07 PM
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    31 S&P 500 Stocks with Negative 3 FY Net Income [view article]
    There are reasons to question the significance of the S&P500, at least in terms of what it actually represents. For an interesting view on the subject see article and comments at:
    www.clusterstock.com/2...
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  • commenter
    Jul 30 03:16 AM
    Dividend Yields Soar [view article]
    Correct me if I'm wrong but Since you're buying the stock for the div, then why not hedge your stock purchase with some puts? Any errosion in the stock will bet off set by the puts. Any sign of a bull market, you can cover lower your puts and benefit some form the stock appreciation. Reply
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    Jul 29 11:02 PM
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    9 Questions on Newspapers' 2Q Reports [view article]
    No, other's will take Google's ad model and do it one better. But as a dominant market facilitator they do have time and have done wonderful preparing for the future mid and long-term. Just like K-Mart became less dominant then Wal Mart or Yahoo less dominant for Google. Was Google so wizbang or did it do something so simple and powerful to save a web-surfers time?

    Online ad vendors are crooked in general. Fraud is rampant and Google was not fully except from this behavior. See Google's class action lawsuit. They are cleaning up there act fast and they should, search is about the only decent performing sector of online ads.

    Consolidation of major companies such as Omnicom combined with online ad networks like Ad.com and then throw in data companies like Alliance and your form some pretty serious competition. Right now, like Google for the short term and mid-term, we'll have to see what the longer term brings in economic correction that effects the entire ad market across the board.

    I have no position in Google but am in Consumer Healthcare/Online Marketing, Clinical Trials etc.
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  • commenter
    Jul 29 08:13 PM
    Could Google Buy The New York Times? [view article]
    The NYTimes is the number ONE source of news links that appear at the top of Da Drudge Report. They may be maliaigned, but everyone who is anyone smart reads the NYTimes as part of their day. I choose online M-Sat and purchase a Sunday paper at the coffeeshop. Nothing better on Sunday's than reading the Magazine and Week in Review sections. Reply
  • Could Google Buy The New York Times? [view article]
    When Arthur Sulzburger Sr. handed the reigns to Jr., that was the start of the down fall. He brought in all of his college buddies who thought they could take the wheel of a great American icon. The rest is history, now the family is too proud to realize they need outside help and need it fast. I own over 5000 shares of stock. The dividends are still being paid, but I will be averaging out on my brokers advice as are many of my friends who retired with stock holdings in their 401K's also.. Bye bye Sultz Jr., will you go down with the ship? I doubt it, I think you'll be the first on the life boat before the women and children!!! Reply
  • commenter
    Jul 29 02:36 PM
    Could Google Buy The New York Times? [view article]
    why should they spend on garbage whice is fit to print? Reply
  • commenter
    Jul 29 02:13 PM
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    Bad Week (and Decade) for Newspapers [view article]
    Newspapers really have a lot of opportunity to lock in current customers and gain new ones, especially the young adults that read online.

    1.Stop hardcopy print and buy all current and future customers computers.
    2. Have the IT dept control and lock in the Newspaper for the default home page.
    3. Have the IT dept run a screen saver with clients’ ads 24/7 that are clickable.

    This would allow ads to run 24/7 in millions of homes and the locked-in home page would be priceless. These tasks can be done through coding. This would give the newspapers a fighting chance.
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  • commenter
    Jul 29 01:54 PM
    Could Google Buy The New York Times? [view article]
    Wow, i love the assumption that the NYT is liberal, and the ensuing dripping contempt. Damn, got some on my shoe...

    The only thing more intellectually bankrupt would be the idea that it is somehow offset by Fox news, that two prejudiced news sources somehow balance each other and provide Truth.
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  • commenter
    Jul 29 01:37 PM
    Could Google Buy The New York Times? [view article]
    I think that was on purpose...a little play on words. Reply
  • commenter
    Jul 29 01:04 PM
    Could Google Buy The New York Times? [view article]
    this article lost all credibility when i read the title. it woudl be 'BUY' not "BY'... Reply