Quickies
A few things I've been meaning to link:

*My friends in Tsar have a new single out, "Straight" available to order for $5. Only if you know how to rock.

*A week ago, Steve Outing in E-Media Tidbits surveyed the online California fire coverage and lauded the work at the San Diego Union Tribune. They were able to order up more bandwidth, add videos, a fire blog and other fancy stuff about a day or so after it was clear the fires were a major story. He asks: "Are you that prepared for the Really Big Local Story?" ... On the same topic, the LA Times (via Romenesko) has a story about "Ranger Al," a retired firefighter who defied evacuation orders near Arrowhead Lake and built a website, fireupdate.com, about the fire from within - checking specific address to determine what was destroyed. Incredible resource.

*Tony Pierce is using his blog to pitch blogging business ideas, at a rate of about one a day. He wants to run a blog for a company and he's telling them why. So far he's made a case for blogging for the Chicago Cubs, Playboy, Blogger/Google (duh,) and his local strip club.

*I was in Strand bookstore earlier this week and let's just say the guys working there are none to excited about "the daughter's" plan for a coffeeshop. Their reference was Dante-like.

*Am I the only one who's disgusted by all this fake media contempt about Shattered Glass which is just thinly veiled "I wish they'd make a movie about me" envy. (Is that like overpaid media critic Michael Wolf who criticizes media owners because he wishes he were one of them?)

*And while I'm on the topic of New York magazine writers I don't like, anybody know if Jim Cramer has come up with a lame defense yet for the mutual fund masters cheating on behalf of its favorite hedge fund owners? I mean, how could someone like Cramer not know stuff like this has been going on? He runs a hedge fund, he owns TheStreet.com, he has his own crap talk show on CNBC and his own Go, Wall Street, Go rah-rah column in New York mag. How can a guy be that connected and not know or not tell? I really don't know because I no longer have the patience to read more than a paragraph or listen to more than a few sentences before his spin drives me nuts. Has he apologized for this like he did after the bubble burst and he told CNBC viewers all his prior advice really wasn't intended for mom-and-pop investors? Whoops, sorry.
- posted by Amy @ 11/06/2003 10:12:00 AM