Penheaded: 12/01/2006

About the finest example of what is wrong with newspaper ownership today: Way past fostering debate nor even allowing debate, an individual's benign expression is cause to draw a lawyer.

Every citizen should obey the law. Not just the black letter law or the law that passes a lawyer's laugh test but the law of the land that says a person has a right to an opinion about what affects their community. McCaw must have one hell of an inferiority complex if a shop window is considered a threat against the claxon of her printing press.

¶ 12/19/2006 02:23:00 AM 0 comments

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Edwards up on his game

We like Edwards and, with some reservations, his strong ties to labor unions.

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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Emanuel to handle Dem's message and response

For the party as a whole, a positive move; this is, however, more telling in the struggle within the party.

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Monday, December 04, 2006

Via Romenesko: Journalists, officials mistake caretaker role for entitlement

For the sake of emerging citizen journalism and a much needed realignment of the journalism profession, somebody should be telling these Maricopa County officials that public information meetings should be open to all citizens.

We in the press have significant rights of access to government only because we exercise those privileges in the name of the citizens. We have acted only as caretakers of the right to access and it is not an entitlement granted for membership in nor apprenticeship to some guild.

¶ 12/04/2006 07:25:00 PM 0 comments

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Bloggingheads dingalink

The money shot:

Just as many loonies on the left but without the political clout of those on the right.

Kinda speaks for itself.

¶ 12/03/2006 08:05:00 PM 0 comments

Rock the digital dreidel and tip the tech tree

The tech sellers don't seem at all nervous this holiday season. All the fanfare of Black Friday has faded along with the deep discounts merchants had made.

The evolutionary change to multi-core based PC's together with the wait for Vista had already put downward pressure on mainstream PC pricing. The price of LCD screens had also been falling. These slides have halted for the holidays.

Other than what appears to be some minor inflationary pressures on system memory pricing, the increases (that we anticipate) have not begun to appear. Chip manufacturers are reportedly expanding their capacity in anticipation of demand caused by the requirements of Vista.

Update: It should be noted that online auction prices for PC's have been trending up with the holiday demand.

¶ 12/03/2006 04:28:00 AM 0 comments