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Simon and Garfunkel at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert : Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Simon and Garfunkel at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert : Sounds of Silence
Voodoo and Lone Star are the Beatles and Rolling Stones of donuts, but when it comes to packaged goods, Entenmann’s donuts are top notch.
The Banana Crunch Cake and Marshmallow Iced Devil’s Food Cakes are also personal favorites. I’m not the only one who leaves the knife in the box for convenience sake, am I?
The Ghost of Tom Joad — Bruce Springsteen with Tom Morello
I caught The Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Concert on HBO tonight and was absolutely blown away. All those legends on stage together, rocking out for rock’s sake.
Except for Bruce. He had a message that would save the world. As I’ve said, Bruce Springsteen for President. And Tom Morello, who absolutely shredded this song, for Secretary of Labor (uprising).
Loved everything about this performance, especially Morello’s solo but when he goes into that fake turntable scratch on the guitar it just seems out of place. He’s easily one of the greatest guitarists of his generation and a few others, but that trick should be used sparingly.
There is no real connection between this video and the purpose of this blog, but does it really need one?
Sometimes, you just need little random things to make you happy.
so so so cute
Mike Huckabee Granted Clemency To Maurice Clemmons, Man Wanted For Questioning In Ambush That Killed 4 Cops.
A convicted felon granted clemency nine years ago by former Arkansas Governor and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, is wanted for questioning in the shooting deaths of four police officers in Washington state. Maurice Clemmons, the man wanted for questioning, has been convicted of five felonies in Arkansas and has been charged with eight felonies in Washington state.
For them, New York is not an island sinking, but one that is rising on a fresh, ferocious wave.
- David Carr on Manhattan media and the “cabals of bright young things” that are reshaping it. http://bit.ly/69qzbz (via thedeadline)
Palin Quits, Again.
Is there anything she won’t quit?
Content Revenue Models: Pay Per View vs. Ad Supported
Question posted to Martin A. Nisenholtz, senior vice president, digital operations for The New York Times Company. (via @cvvalencia) Q. Do you see online newspaper and magazine content becoming pay-per-view (or pay-per-month, etc.) in the future? With newspaper and media revenues declining, we hear that idea thrown out every once in a while as a way to stabilize the industry. What are your thoughts? — David N., Minneapolis A. Martin A. Nisenholtz: The short answer to your question is “yes.” We’ve experimented with many different versions of online payment over the years. For example, when we started the Web site in early 1996 we charged for international usage. Our thinking was that Times content was unavailable outside the United States, hence, users would be more likely to pay for the online version. After about 18 months we had generated under 4,000 subscriptions, so we ended the experiment in July 1997. Our most ambitious effort in paid content was TimesSelect, where we charged for access to Times columnists, arguably our most exclusive content (since, for example, Tom Friedman is only available from The Times.) This was much more successful, generating more than 200,000 subscriptions and around $10 million in annual revenue. However, we decided to end TimesSelect after careful analysis suggested that the ad revenues resulting from increased traffic from offering this content free through the exploding search and blogs sectors would exceed $10 million over time. Today, we continue to carefully analyze the question of how paid content (subscriptions, micro-payments, membership tiers) can augment our core advertising business. The trick, of course, is to garner incremental revenue from the user without significantly cannibalizing the high rate ad pages that now account for a very significant amount of money. Unlike many local news Web sites that still depend mostly on declining classified ad revenues, NYTimes.com has a very large national display revenue stream. As we develop new pay-for-content ideas, we must carefully balance our ability to generate meaningful dollars from both sources.
