Bloggers must disclose freebies
october 2009 by jimray
This strikes me as a good thing - bloggers have existed in an ethical gray zone for a while, many all too happy to reap the benefits of free stuff.
bloggers
ethics
business
tumbl
october 2009 by jimray
Mike D has a great post on the end of the Seattle P-I
march 2009 by jimray
A thoughtful, respectful but realistic look at the news business. Dispenses with easy snark and instead focuses on the future of media.
newspapers
business
media
economy
tumbl
march 2009 by jimray
The last six editors of the LA Times talk to Los Angeles magazine
may 2008 by jimray
Not much love for the mother Tribune but some good, candid responses
newspapers
media
via:macdiva
tumbl
business
latimes
tribune
may 2008 by jimray
If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo
april 2008 by jimray
Really excellent breakdown on what might happen with the Microsoft Yahoo deal from Marc Andreessen.
business
microsoft
yahoo
tumbl
via:waxy
april 2008 by jimray
Getty sold to a private equity firm
february 2008 by jimray
San Francisco based Hellman and Friedman has offered $2.1B plus will be assuming $300M in debt to acquire the Seattle stock photo agency.
photography
media
business
tumbl
february 2008 by jimray
The Sharper Image files for bankruptcy
february 2008 by jimray
But... but... where will I get my shiatsu ionic scalp massaging raygun with electronic organizer and sudoku puzzle generator?!!?! Also, good riddance.
dumb
awesome
business
tumbl
february 2008 by jimray
Samuel Adams hop sharing program
february 2008 by jimray
The price of hops has gone through the roof due to increased demand and worldwide shortages - to help out micro and craft breweries, Sam Adams is selling 20,000 pound of hops at cost! I'm not a huge Sam Adams fan, but this is awesome.
beer
awesome
business
food
via:revgeorge
tumbl
february 2008 by jimray
How the candy lobby got an extra hour of daylight on Halloween
october 2007 by jimray
Apparently, moving daylight savings time past Halloween is something they've long lobbied for and only the completely ill conceived Energy Policy Act of last year was able to deliver.
business
funny
dumb
politics
tumbl
october 2007 by jimray
eBay's $4 billion lesson in the value of hype
october 2007 by jimray
"Just because a company has a huge and growing audience doesn’t mean it can find a huge revenue source." Especially when that audience is fickle college students who don't want to pay for anything and hate ads.
business
money
web2.0
via:daringfireball
tumbl
october 2007 by jimray
LJWorld launches local business directory
april 2007 by jimray
Aims to compete with bigger players (Google, Yahoo) by being hyper focused and knowledgeable about the community. Not a bad model for newspapers.
media
newspapers
business
local
april 2007 by jimray
BusinessWeek suggests Apple should start a venture capital firm
march 2007 by jimray
I like the idea, but disagree with the premise that there's no interesting small-scale development happening on the Mac. How many popular Mac apps (quicksilver? textmate?) don't have Windows equivalents?
apple
business
vc
march 2007 by jimray
Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal
october 2006 by jimray
Google placated the major content owners fora bout $50 million a piece, which also bought a six month head start. Google needs to drop the "do no evil" thing, if only because all the cranky bloggers keep throwing it in their face when the act like a corpo
google
video
youtube
via:waxy
business
copyright
october 2006 by jimray
Job losses, big changes coming at NBC News
october 2006 by jimray
MSNBC East (Cable and dotcom) moving to 30 Rock, consolidation of news divisions (CNBC, MSNBC, NBC News), layoffs. Ride the wave!
business
nbc
msnbc
work
media
october 2006 by jimray
Media ownership study ordered destroyed
september 2006 by jimray
"The Federal Communications Commission ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage, a former lawyer at the agency says."
media
business
politics
september 2006 by jimray
ChiTrib story on the Threadless guys
september 2006 by jimray
Yeah, this story's about 2 years late, but holy CRAP Threadless made 6.2 MILLION DOLLARS in sales last year!
tshirts
business
awesome
september 2006 by jimray
David Brendt comes to Microsoft
august 2006 by jimray
"So, what's the vibe here?"
funny
video
via:metafilter
microsoft
business
august 2006 by jimray
Times to Reduce Page Size and Close a Plant in 2008
august 2006 by jimray
Cutting the page size down by an inch and a half will save $12M a year!?!! Newsprint's 'spensive.
via:werty
business
media
newspapers
nytimes
august 2006 by jimray
Stock photo cliches
may 2006 by jimray
"Our operators are standing by to take your call…and your heart."
brilliant
funny
business
photography
design
may 2006 by jimray
The Development Abstraction Layer - Joel on Software
april 2006 by jimray
"Software is a conversation, between the software developer and the user. But for that conversation to happen requires a lot of work beyond the software development."
programming
business
startup
design
2read
april 2006 by jimray
Caterina.net: It's a bad time to start a company
march 2006 by jimray
I've always had this sneaking suspicion that Caterina is full of shit - this post confirms it for me. I think what she really means is that it's a bad time to try to jump on the web2.0 VC bubble bandwagon, but, duh.
dumb
startup
business
webdev
march 2006 by jimray
Behind the FitzSimons story | Chi-Town Daily News
february 2006 by jimray
Geoff Dougherty's citizen journalism efforts appear to be taking off...
media
citizenjournalism
newspapers
business
february 2006 by jimray
Anil Dash: Alt Weeklies, San Francisco, Curiosity, and Bullshit
february 2006 by jimray
"...a business model predicated on nickel-and-diming for rent ads or charging brokers a premium price for ALL CAPS in a listing, combined with some edge-of-legality back pages full of ads for whores is certainly not contributing to a community."
brilliant
media
newspapers
craigslist
weblogs
advertising
business
february 2006 by jimray
Online Invoicing & Web Based Billing Service Includes Employee Timesheets
february 2006 by jimray
The free plan looks perfect... (via The Deck)
business
startup
february 2006 by jimray
The Six Apart Affiliate Program
january 2006 by jimray
Get paid when you set someone else up with SA weblog tools
weblogs
business
webdev
sixapart
movabletype
january 2006 by jimray
Disney buying Pixar for $7.4 billion
january 2006 by jimray
Jobs is on the board, Disney just might survive the horror of the Eisner era after all
disney
pixar
business
entertainment
january 2006 by jimray
Disney in talks to buy Pixar Animation Studios - U.S. Business - MSNBC.com
january 2006 by jimray
"Deal would make Steve Jobs largest individual Disney shareholder"
disney
pixar
film
business
january 2006 by jimray
Google buys radio advertising firm
january 2006 by jimray
Pretty soon the "I, for one, welcom our new Google overlord" jokes aren't going to be funny. Not. One. Bit.
advertising
business
google
marketing
radio
january 2006 by jimray
Behind the magic curtain
january 2006 by jimray
An insider look behind the Apple keynotes
keynote
presentation
apple
stevejobs
business
design
marketing
work
january 2006 by jimray
John Battelle's Searchblog: With AOL Deal, Google May Get to Go Public Again
december 2005 by jimray
Google's investment in AOL sounds really smart if AOL gets spun off
aol
google
business
via:daringfireball
december 2005 by jimray
Court Rules Against Mom in Download Suit - Yahoo! News
december 2005 by jimray
"Gonzalez, a mother of five, contended she had downloaded songs to determine what she liked enough to buy at retail."
law
music
business
p2p
riaa
dumb
december 2005 by jimray
Adobe completes acquisition of Macromedia
december 2005 by jimray
"Our long-term plan is to develop a 'universal client' by combining PDF, Flash and HTML in a single, integrated runtime." Crap. You know, when other companies try to be Microsoft, Microsoft wins.
adobe
macromedia
design
dumb
business
via:daringfireball
december 2005 by jimray
Joel on pricing
november 2005 by jimray
"The entertainment industry has to maintain a straight face and tell you that Gigli or Battlefield Earth are every bit as valuable as Wedding Crashers or Star Wars or nobody will go see them."
apple
itunes
business
entertainment
evil
burnhollywoodburn
november 2005 by jimray
Six Apart does their customers right
november 2005 by jimray
You choose how much free service you want in return for last month's service interruptions - though, I can't seem to find this for our corporate account...
sixapart
marketing
business
weblogs
november 2005 by jimray
Google Analytics
november 2005 by jimray
So this is what they did with Urchin...
business
google
marketing
stats
webdev
november 2005 by jimray
The Ups & Downs of a Successful Service
october 2005 by jimray
Honesty and transparency are great and all, but really, I want them to fix the goddamn servers so my people stop yelling at me
weblogs
sixapart
business
october 2005 by jimray
Wal-Mart Memo Suggests Ways to Cut Employee Benefit Costs
october 2005 by jimray
"Among the recommendations are hiring more part-time workers and discouraging unhealthy people from working at Wal-Mart."
evil
walmart
healthcare
business
october 2005 by jimray
Detailed look inside your iPod (pdf)
october 2005 by jimray
Includes who makes what, their current stock valuation, and whether your should pick up a few shares. Smart.
business
ipod
investing
october 2005 by jimray
The Hidden Cost of Documentaries
october 2005 by jimray
New York Times on the ridiculousness of having to get clearance for every snippet of copyrighted work in a documentary
copyright
idiocy
film
business
october 2005 by jimray
Anil Dash: The Flip 2K5
october 2005 by jimray
The new new economy
startup
business
webdev
via:daringfireball
october 2005 by jimray
Blockbuster Could Have Bought Netflix for $50 Million
october 2005 by jimray
Instead, inked a deal with Enron - the sooner those bastards die, the better
via:waxy
netflix
film
media
entertainment
business
schadenfreude
october 2005 by jimray
Treehouse · A Web Development Magazine
september 2005 by jimray
From the minds behind ParticleTree. Looks great!
business
webdev
design
september 2005 by jimray
Wells Fargo Buys 'Second Life' Island
september 2005 by jimray
The gamers are going to inherit the (virtual) earth
gaming
property
business
september 2005 by jimray
Garrett Dimon: Steps to Becoming a Freelance Web Developer
september 2005 by jimray
Some good tips in there
business
startup
freelance
productivity
september 2005 by jimray
Y Combinator: Startup Resources
september 2005 by jimray
Good startup starts
business
startup
wingmanifesto
wanderpad
september 2005 by jimray
Find-A-Human -- IVR Phone S... - Approved*
september 2005 by jimray
Stop navigating phone hell!
awesome
business
productivity
september 2005 by jimray
The $50 Million Giveaway
september 2005 by jimray
Business 2.0 found a bunch of VC's with money to burn
startup
business
webdev
wingmanifesto
september 2005 by jimray
Campaign monitor
august 2005 by jimray
Bulk email made dead simple with a brilliant pricing model
business
email
marketing
webdev
work
brilliant
august 2005 by jimray
Wired News: Comics for Geeks on the Go
august 2005 by jimray
Comics on your cell phone
supermodified
comics
business
mobile
japan
august 2005 by jimray
Americans should stop bitching about the price of gas
august 2005 by jimray
We pay less than anyone other first world country in the world
gasoline
politics
business
august 2005 by jimray
The Newspaper of the Future
august 2005 by jimray
The newspaper of the future is a media conglomerate that monoplizes small towns? Interesting...
media
business
newspapers
august 2005 by jimray
The Costco challenge: An alternative to Wal-Martization?
july 2005 by jimray
Said one Wall Street analyst: "Costco’s corporate philosophy is to put its customers first, then its employees, then its vendors and finally its shareholders." And this is why I will *never* understand investment bankers' bullshit.
business
walmart
politics
work
july 2005 by jimray
Nike offers mea culpa over stealing from Minor Threat
june 2005 by jimray
Meh, they're still wankers
advertising
business
music
dumb
june 2005 by jimray
The idiocy of copyright
june 2005 by jimray
The indie documentary Mad Hot Ballroom spent 45% of their budget clearing crappy music -- including thousands of dollars for a fucking ringtone! These people are crooks -- I feel like I should hit Limewire right now and download as much music as possible
copyright
politics
film
dumb
music
business
law
june 2005 by jimray
Bush Backer Sues RNC Over 'W' Logo
april 2005 by jimray
See, that's what happens when your base is a bunch of money grubbing assholes
republicans
politics
business
hilarious
irony
via:sploid
april 2005 by jimray
Adobe to acquire Macromedia in $3.4 billion dollar deal
april 2005 by jimray
Since the two really haven't been competing in the same space for a while (does anyone use Fireworks? Did anyone use LiveMotion?), I'm not sure this is bad. Hopefully we'll just get some kickass software out of Macrodobemedia
business
adobe
macromedia
multimedia
webdev
via:natedawg
april 2005 by jimray
The Josh Kaufman "Personal MBA" Program
march 2005 by jimray
Everything you need for an MBA in 30-40 books [via Merlin Mann]
productivity
business
march 2005 by jimray
Summer Founders Program
march 2005 by jimray
Paul Graham is giving out seed money this summer for startups [via Daring Fireball]
startup
business
march 2005 by jimray
How to Start a Startup
march 2005 by jimray
Find the right people, build a product people want, grow slowly and spend wisely. Sage advice [via /.]
startup
business
wingmanifesto
march 2005 by jimray
"Hire" the right clients (Signal vs. Noise)
february 2005 by jimray
Knowing when to say no
design
business
february 2005 by jimray
Apple announces a 2-for-1 stock split
february 2005 by jimray
I'm still clueless as to how they're valued as highly as they are
business
investing
apple
february 2005 by jimray
Cluetrain 2005
january 2005 by jimray
Another look at the Cluetrain Manifesto, what still holds, what needs some tweaking [via zeldman]
business
copywriting
january 2005 by jimray
The accidental guru
january 2005 by jimray
Fast Company profiles Malcom Gladwell
business
marketing
books
january 2005 by jimray
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