From the daily archives:

Friday, June 20, 2008

Why all the Yahoo hate? Plain old-fashioned snobbery

June 20, 2008

Thank goodness that Danny Sullivan is around to take a balanced look at Yahoo. There’s a lot of nonsensical talk – bordering on hate – around Yahoo at the moment. And that makes me wonder whether there isn’t something deeper to it. One of the mildet ones, but fairly typical, is this one, from FriendFeed: [...]

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Why all the Yahoo hate? Plain old-fashioned snobbery

June 20, 2008

Thank goodness that Danny Sullivan is around to take a balanced look at Yahoo. There’s a lot of nonsensical talk – bordering on hate – around Yahoo at the moment. And that makes me wonder whether there isn’t something deeper to it. One of the mildet ones, but fairly typical, is this one, from FriendFeed: [...]

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Print is dying, right? Not so fast

June 20, 2008

Don’t expect this story to get coverage from those who always seem to be claiming that print media is dying. The Economist, the venerable newspaper (which looks like a magazine) has seen revenues, profits and print circulation all rise: "The Economist Group’s chief executive, Helen Alexander, has signed off from her 11-year leadership of the [...]

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Print is dying, right? Not so fast

June 20, 2008

Don’t expect this story to get coverage from those who always seem to be claiming that print media is dying. The Economist, the venerable newspaper (which looks like a magazine) has seen revenues, profits and print circulation all rise: "The Economist Group’s chief executive, Helen Alexander, has signed off from her 11-year leadership of the [...]

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An example of bad, sexist summary writing

June 20, 2008

Stewart Butterfield and his wife? Referring to Caterina as “his wife” is pretty lame. Have we gone back to the 1970′s, when women were defined by their relationship to men rather than their achievements? I really would expect better from The Guardian.

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An example of bad, sexist summary writing

June 20, 2008

Stewart Butterfield and his wife? Referring to Caterina as “his wife” is pretty lame. Have we gone back to the 1970′s, when women were defined by their relationship to men rather than their achievements? I really would expect better from The Guardian.

Read the full article →