Gov. Mitch Daniels' new book has passages bashing a part of the state I'm very familiar with:
But Daniels uses a few pages to take aim at Northwest Indiana, a region that has a decades-long loyalty to the Democratic Party. In one passage, Daniels writes about his futile attempt to make inroads in the region by bringing jobs.
An interesting phenomenon explored: Why have journalists, who spent so much time and energy bashing blogs, been so taken with Twitter?
I find the question especially interesting because Twitter seems to have all the bad aspects of blogging and none of its strengths. Smith offers two reasons why he tweets so much despite being paid to blog: Twitter is faster and it is now the dominant medium of online political “conversation”.
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For the "well, duh" file:
If you woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning, then try to find comfort in the fact that you're not alone.
Monday is officially the most miserable day of the week, a survey has found.
A sensible thought expressed in a New York Times op-ed piece and echoed by a blogging mom:
(Note: I wrote a column about work back in 2003 that I just re-read and still like. So here it is, in celebration of Labor Day on Monday.)
There's a guy who visited with our editorial board a time or two several years ago. He'd worked for whoever was mayor at the time, then became involved in some government job-training program.
``Our goal is not just to get people jobs,'' he told us once, ``but good jobs, something besides being a janitor.''
He didn't exactly sneer when he said it, but the disdain was there in his voice.
Well, this is better than using them to line birdcases or wrap fishes:
The Internet is delivering a slow death to newspapers, but many of us still have piles of the stuff around the house that a microbe called TU-103 will convert to butanol, a biofuel that is nearly as energy dense as unleaded gasoline.
Mike Dooley, a reporter who covered Fort Wayne for 25 years before his retirement in 2006 and worked for both The Journal Gazette and The News-Sentinel, has died at 65:
Reporter Kevin Leininger worked with Dooley at The News-Sentinel and competed against him during Dooley's time at the Journal Gazette.
Time for the annual "Boy this makes me feel old" self-flagellation ritual:
The current freshmen entering college who will make up the Class of 2015 have no remembrance of what life was like before the Internet, what this whole Communist Party fuss was about in Russia and that Amazon was once just known as a river in South America.
With Steve Jobs' retirement announcement, a lot is being said about his tremendous successes. But he had a lot of spectacular failures, too, like the Apple I and Lisa. We could learn something by concentrating on those:
