"While U Slept" is Jeff Israely's night version of the news for waking readers in North America

New media guru and Columbia journalism profesor Sree Sreenivasan wrote a wonderful piece in DNAinfo last week about "a week week without newspapers" while he was on vacation in Florida. In the piece, picked up by Jim Romenesko's blog and PaidContent's Amanda Natividad in her Quick Hits corner, Dr Sreenivasan cited Jeff's "morning news bundler" tagged While U Slept.

I've been getting While U Slept now for several weeks, and I recommend it highly. It's not only timely (no pun intended, as Jeff is a Time correspondent in Italy and gets the news much earlier than his subscribers do in the USA -- thus the WHILE U SLEPT tagger), it's also short and sweet: 5 items of important news, Jeff's choices and he's usually right on the money with each post. Check it out. It's free. I am not sure why Jeff is doing this, and how he expects to make money from it in the future, but maybe he will explain here in the comments. For now, it's free, and worth pixel!

It's billed as The Big 5 Stories Breaking Since U Logged Off Last Night. Your Head Start on the News Cycle

http://twitter.com/whileuslept

http://whileuslept.wordpress.com/

‘Romenesko’d’: Danny Bloom’s musical obit for ‘snail’ newspapers—or at least his op-ed about it

David Rothman in DC area blogs: ‘He's been Romenesko’d’-- re Danny Bloom’s musical obit for ‘snail’ newspapers—or at least his op-ed about it



For the op-ed page of the Prov­i­dence Jour­nal, Danny Bloom wrote about his song hon­or­ing old-fashioned newspapers, aka ”Snailpapers.”
He con­fessed that not every­one loved this “musi­cal obit,” as ex-Washington Star gos­sip colum­nist Diana McLel­lan dubbed it.
Lo and behold, how­ever, Danny’s op-ed drew a link from Jim Romenesko’s pop­u­lar news­pa­per blog on the Poyn­ter Insti­tute site.
Mean­while, some­where along the line, Danny dis­cov­ered a neol­o­gism that has been in use already for over 5 years, ‘Romenesko’d,” as in: “Wow, Jim Rome­nesko linked to my oped piece in the LA Times today, first time that ever hap­pened! Can’t wait to tell my friends on Facebook that I’ve been Romenesko’d.” Urban Dic­tio­nary has even picked up the verb. Who knew?

I see by the snailpapers that "burt wolf" (lowercased) is coming to Taiwan on April 4 to do a TV show -- so why did the newspaper lowercase both of his names?

burt wolf is an american journalist, writer, chef and tv producer. He is the host of the pbs series travels and traditions. he will be visiting taipei from april 4 - 16 to produce a new tvshow for his series. the headline in the local paper read: "Ameican TV director burt wolf will visit Taipei next week"

PEOPLE MAGAZINE said in 1979

when burt wolf was just 41 years old.....[so that makes him 59 now]

He's 20 times quicker than the 'Galloping Gourmet'



As a man who wants to wean America from TV dinners and fast food, Burt Wolf has found the perfect medium: fast information on the tube. "In 90 seconds," he says of his new What's Cookin' show, "no one can get bored." The series got into syndication just last month and is now seen five days a week in 20 million households in 26 cities.



In the gourmet world, Burt, 41, was already well known as one of the indefatigable editors of The Cooks' Catalogue, a much-consulted 570-page tome which lays out the uses and delights of over 4,000 pieces of kitchen equipment. "With 2,000 cookbooks a year we don't need more recipes," says Burt. "What we need is some basic goddamned information about what happens in cooking." Wolf has a near evangelical zeal for demystifying and simplifying haute cuisine, and he is a self-confessed "maniac about a high-fiber, no candy, no sugar diet." He's also antisodium ("Salt is an addiction almost like alcohol"). A proselytizer and irresistible hustler, he finds time, too, for a weekly column on food equipment syndicated by the Washington Post and to supervise "Cooks' Kitchen Shops" in department stores across the country.



Between his sermons about the sins of sugar and the rewards of whole grains, his TV series is loaded with instant info, from how to season a pot ("Wipe the inside with vegetable oil, add another tablespoon and heat on a stove for 20 minutes") and buy mushrooms ("bigger doesn't necessarily mean better") to cleaning copper ("use a mix of white vinegar, a little salt and flour").



Pots and pans have been part of Burt Wolf's landscape ever since he unpacked can openers and melon bailers in his grandmother's housewares store in the Bronx after school. "But I thought a grown-up responsible person doesn't become a cook," says Burt, who instead got a B.A. in English from New York University, then quit law school to become the writer-publisher of a series of self-help books. In 1968 he sold out his publishing house to Swiss-based financier Bernie Cornfeld's IOS (and had to sue to collect his $500,000).



Transplanting his family first to Switzerland then to France, Wolf began hanging around the kitchens of French chefs like Michel Guérard and Paul Bocuse. The upshot was the Cooks' Catalogue, a project which cost him seven years and his marriage.



These days Burt lives on Central Park West with the producer of his TV show, Emily Aronson, and two of his three sons. They constantly entertain celeb gourmets who have learned to put up with Burt's preaching about diet just as have the TV stations and sponsors that carry his show. "I don't see myself as antibusiness," says Wolf. "People who get cancer and die make lousy consumers."

Do you screen your ebooks or do you READ on paper surfaces?

Who is this actor? I'm pretty sure he's famous but I need to know who he is....

NEW SPAM COME ON: "Who is this actor? im pretty sure hes famous but i need to know who he

is?"
S.P.A.M means = Special Promotion Asswipe Media

Urban Dictionary accepts "I've been Romenesko'd" as a new slang term

I've been Romenesko'd


When Jim Romenesko's news industry blog mentions your name or your newspaper's name with a link to your website.

"Wow, Jim Romenesko linked to my oped piece in the Times today, first time that ever happened! Can't wait to tell my friends that I've been Romenesko'd."



-- overheard in a newsroom in Manhattan, March 12, 2010

accepted on Mar 29, 2010

refs

I See By the Snailpapers ...: I've been Romenesko'd !!!! - [ 翻譯此頁 ]29 Mar 2010 ... I've been Romenesko'd !!!! RE PAUL SIMON SONG lyrics here: ... Andy Warhol won't you please come home? I've been mother, fathered, ...


zippy1300.blogspot.com/2010/03/ive-been-romeneskod.html - 21分鐘前

取得更多過去 24 小時內的搜尋結果

I See By the Snailpapers ... - 24 個瀏覽次數 - 3月15日 - [ 翻譯此頁 ]Urban Dictionary accepts "I've been Romenesko'd" a new slang term. I've been Romenesko'd ..... You can find it on YouTube. The reviews have been mixed. ...

zippy1300.blogspot.com/ - 類似內容



顯示更多來自 zippy1300.blogspot.com 的結果

Franklin Avenue - [ 翻譯此頁 ]29 Jun 2005 ... We've Been Romenesko'd! They say you always remember your first time. Being linked on Romenesko, that is. posted by Mike
10:53 AM
>>>>>>>> ...

franklinavenue.blogspot.com/2005/.../weve-been-romeneskod.html - 頁庫存檔

Idea Peepshow » Blog Archive » Do Bloggers Owe A Duty to Society? - [ 翻譯此頁 ]19 Jun 2008 ... You've been writing books about these topics for years, ... You even got Romenesko'd. Here's a positive suggestion if you feel you must send ...

www.fasthorseinc.com/blog/.../do-bloggers-owe-a-duty-to-society/ - 頁庫存檔

The Mechanic & the Muse: Jealousy as Inspiration - [ 翻譯此頁 ]8 Feb 2006 ... "Who inspires you?" Collins replied: "Because I've been teaching so long ... afoul of your employer, you are less likely to be Romenesko'd! ...

poynter.blogs.com/the...the.../jealousy_as_ins.html - 頁庫存檔 - 類似內容

News aggregator
rout communications - [ 翻譯此頁 ]Once you have a model, you can connect the data sets with confidence. .... Environmental groups have been warning for years that global climate change could make already-tense ... were among the first to get Romenesko'd out of our jobs. ...

www.rout.ca/news/aggregator?page=61 - 頁庫存檔

nature physics portal - research collections - astrophysics (2001) - [ 翻譯此頁 ]由 S WOOSLEY 著作 - 2001 - 被引用 2 次 - 相關文章

Astronomers have now imaged a stellar microlens as it speeds across the sky. .... S. RICHTER, J. RODR GUEZ MARTINO, P. ROMENESKO, D. ROSS, H. RUBINSTEIN, ... How do you measure the mass of the Universe? You can't use a balance to ... Dating the Universe has always been a tricky business with unsatisfying answers. ...

www.nature.com/physics/archive/01_astro_2001.html

[PDF] NATURE VOL. 409, NO. 6819; 25 JANUARY 2001 - [ 翻譯此頁 ]檔案類型: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - 快速檢視

22 Mar 2001 ... Caring for lab animais/ Can you bank on DNA databank?/ US Forest ..... structure have been lacking. A model for this has now been proposed. ... Rhode, A. Richards, S. Richter, J. Rodríguez Martino, P. Romenesko, D. ...

www.insp.mx/biblio/alerta/al0201/57.pdf - 類似內容

Romenesko and the Dawning of Gossip Journalism - [ 翻譯此頁 ]23 Jun 2008 ... In little more than a century, journalism has been conducted under ... With HP wireless printers, you could have printed this from any room ...

www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/.../portfolio_0623 - 頁庫存檔 - 類似內容

North Coast Post - [ 翻譯此頁 ]27 Jul 2007 ... Then you have the folks content to simply, oh, do good work. .... The perenially understaffed print media outlets have been especially desperate of late -- even the ... T-S repoeter gets Romenesko'd · Does it fly? ...

northcoastpost.blogspot.com/ - 頁庫存檔

I've been Romenesko'd !!!!

RE PAUL SIMON SONG lyrics here:




"A simple desultory philippic (or how I was Lyndon Johnson'd to death)"







I was Romenesko'd, Union Jacked,





John Birched, stopped and searched









Rolling Stoned and Beatled till I'm blind









I've been Ayn Randed, nearly branded









Communist 'cos I'm lefthanded:









That's the hand they use, well, never mind!





















I've been Walt Disneyed, Dis Disleyed









John Lennoned, Krishna Menoned



















I've been James Joyced, Rolls Royced









Mick Jaggered, silver daggered









Andy Warhol won't you please come home?









I've been mother, fathered, aunt and uncled









Tom Wilsoned, Art Garfunkled

Jim Romenesko - ''snailpapers'' song gets plug on Romenesko via PROJO.com

Jim Romenesko -- Your daily fix of media industry news, commentary, and memos.
"Snailpapers" song gets mixed reviews.
[via]  http://www.projo.com/

I've been Romenesko'd !!!!

RE PAUL SIMON SONG lyrics here:

"A simple desultory philippic (or how  I was Lyndon Johnson'd to death)"

I was Romenesko'd, Union Jacked,
John Birched, stopped and searched

Rolling Stoned and Beatled till I'm blind

I've been Ayn Randed, nearly branded

Communist 'cos I'm lefthanded:

That's the hand they use, well, never mind!



I've been Walt Disneyed, Dis Disleyed

John Lennoned, Krishna Menoned



I've been James Joyced, Rolls Royced

Mick Jaggered, silver daggered

Andy Warhol won't you please come home?

I've been mother, fathered, aunt and uncled

Tom Wilsoned, Art Garfunkled





 

The world's first musical obit for newspapers

http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/CT_bloom27_03-27-10_7MHPJL4_v19.4056cd4.html

CNN's Latest Crash Blossom On Screen News Crawl: "Fish Nets Shock Victory Over Murray"

CNN Crash Blossom: "Fish Nets Shock Victory Over Murray" -- March 28, 2010

Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate, at work on his latest Times column... [who knew?]

A new word for print newsapers: snailpapers

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:53:36 +0800

Subject: new word for print


new word for print newsapers: snailpapers



http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/CT_bloom27_03-27-10_7MHPJL4_v19.4056cd4.html


End of SHARP-L Digest - 26 Mar 2010 to 27 Mar 2010 (#2010-77)

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Tiger Woods Sex Tape and Sex Talk with Veronica Siwik-Daniels

Tiger Woods to Veronica Siwik-Daniels: Sent: 5:46 pm  July 30, 2009:
Heading back from the course now.





Tiger:Sent: 05:52 PM 07/30/2009:

How close are you?





Tiger:Sent: 06:01 PM 07/30/2009:

I will leave an envelope at the front desk under ms daniels. Your room will be 305. Get settled and let me know when you are ready to see me. I will be i





Tiger:Sent: 06:01 PM 07/30/2009:

n room 201. You can come down the stair well next to your room. Make sure absolutely no one sees you





Tiger:Sent: 06:17 PM 07/30/2009:

Just so you know i have to get up at 415 tomorrow.





Tiger:Sent: 07:30 PM 07/30/2009:

Just let me know when you are headed down





Tiger:Sent: 09:46 PM 07/30/2009:

What time is car picking you up tomorrow





Tiger:Sent: 01:14 AM 07/31/2009:

Yes





Tiger:Sent: 01:27 AM 07/31/2009:

Did you get lost. Door is open





Tiger:Sent: 02:16 PM 07/31/2009:

What time do you leave. Im trying to leave. Im trying to get back





Tiger:Sent: 03:57 PM 07/31/2009:

Will back in 5. Let me take a shower and i will text you after





Tiger:Sent: 04:18 PM 07/31/2009:

Oh i know. Not at all. Just glad and suprised i can do that to you Im all clean. Come on down:)





Tiger:Sent: 04:22 PM 07/31/2009:

Hurry:)





Tiger:Sent: 05:08 PM 07/31/2009:

I'm glad you came out





Tiger:Sent: 06:36 PM 07/31/2009:

Awesome baby. Be Safe





Tiger:Sent: 03:13 AM 08/01/2009:

Thank you sexy





Tiger:Sent: 06:34 AM 08/06/2009:

In ohio playing





Tiger:Sent: 05:54 AM 08/09/2009:

I told you im playing these two weeks





Tiger:Sent: 06:50 PM 08/09/2009:

In about a month





Tiger:Sent: 06:51 PM 08/09/2009:

Maybe sooner. Can't talk now. Will text when i can





Tiger:Sent: 01:53 PM 08/13/2009:

Me to





Tiger:Sent: 10:27 AM 08/20/2009:

I hope not. So you have been with others huh since?





Tiger:Sent: 10:35 AM 08/23/2009:

I hope so





Tiger:Sent: 10:45 PM 08/23/2009:

Not a bad thing thinking about me





Tiger:Sent: 11:00 PM 08/23/2009:

I totally agree





Tiger:Sent: 11:03 PM 08/23/2009:

In conn





Tiger:Sent: 11:07 PM 03/23/2009:

Ditto





Tiger:Sent: 11: 08 PM 08/23/2009:

I like when you do that to me





Tiger:Sent: 11:11 PM 08/23/2009:

Ditto sexy





Tiger:Sent: 04:06 PM 08/28/2009:

I want to be deep inside you





Tiger:Sent: 04:10 PM 08/28/2009:

Maybe in two weeks in chicago





Tiger:Sent: 03:19 PM 08/29/2009:

I need that so bad





Tiger:Sent: 03;29 PM 08/29/2009:

Now:)





Tiger:Sent: 03:30 PM 08/29/2009:

Me to. I would wear you out





Tiger:Sent: 03:32 PM 08/29/2009:

I have no idea. I would love to have the ability to make you sore





Tiger:Sent: 03:35 PM 08/29/2009:

In a week. I will try to wear you out





Tiger:Sent: 03:36 PM 08/29/2009:

After i cum you better start sucking my cock to get it hard





Tiger:Sent: 03:37 PM 08/29/2009:

Do you ever hook up with other guys or girls





Tiger:Sent: 03:41 PM 08/29/2009:

You didnt answer the question





Tiger:Sent: 03:43 PM 08/29/2009:

Ok. I would like to have a threesome with you and another girl you trust





Tiger:Sent: 03:48 PM 08/29/2009:

Does that excite you at all or no





Tiger:Sent: 03:52 PM 08/29/2009:

God girl. You better want to take care of me





Tiger:Sent: 03:56 PM 08/29/2009:

You do. Need more of it





Tiger:Sent: 03:59 PM 08/29/2009:

of you





Tiger:Sent: 04"02 PM 08/29/2009:

I want to treat you rough. Throw you around, spank and slap you





Tiger:Sent: 04:06 PM 08/29/2009:

Slap your face. Treat you like a dirty little whore. Put my cock in your ass and then shove it down your throat





Tiger:Sent: 04:07 PM 08/29/2009:

You are my fucking whore





Tiger:Sent: 04:08 PM 08/29/2009:

Hold you down while i choke you and Fuck that ass that i own





Tiger:Sent: 04:10 PM 08/29/2009:

Then im going to tell you to shut the Fuck up while i slap your face and pull your hair for making noise





Tiger:Sent: 04:21 PM 08/29/2009:

Where do you want to be bitten





Tiger:Sent: 04:24 PM 08/29/2009:

Ok. Now your talking. Whatever i want. You are mine





Tiger:Sent: 04:39 PM 08/29/2009:

Whatever else turns you on





Tiger:Sent: 04:43 PM 08/29/2009:

You tell me what you like





Tiger:Sent: 04:48 PM 08/29/2009:

You are. Always will be. Don't trust people





Tiger:Sent: 04:48 PM 08/29/2009:

But you still have not told me what turns you on





Tiger:Sent: 04:53 PM 08/29/2009:

I know you have tried every positing imaginable but what turns you on besides a dp





Tiger:Sent: 5:00 PM 08/29/2009:

I really do want to be rough with you. Slap you around





Tiger:Sent: 05:12 PM 08/29/2009:

For years. And punish you for not seeing me more





Tiger:Sent: 05:15 PM 08/29/2009:

I want you to beg for my cock. Kiss you all over to convince me to let you have it in your mouth





Tiger:Sent: 05:18 PM 08/29/2009:

We will see how bad you want me





Tiger:Sent: 05:26 PM 08/29/2009:

Next time i see you, you better beg and if you don't do it right i will slap, spank, bite and fuck you till mercy





Tiger:Sent: 09:20 AM 09/03/2009:

Was playing sexy





Tiger:Sent: 04:17 AM 09/04/2009:

Maybe you can fly out to chicage on monday night and leave early wed





Tiger:Sent: 04:23 AM 09/04/2009:

I land at 930 or 10 monday night





Tiger:Sent: 11:57 AM 09/04/2009:

Great. What time so you land





Tiger:Sent: 12:06 PM 09/04/2009:

I land at the earliest at 8 and the latest will be 10





Tiger:Sent: 12:08 PM 09/04/2009:

Midway





Tiger:Sent: 01:42 AM 09/07/2009:

I cant wait to see you as well. What time do you land again





Tiger:Sent: 03:15 AM 09/07/2009:

You are going to be headed to the hyatt lodge. 2815 jorie blvd oak brook, il 60523. Phone 630 990 5800





Tiger:Sent: 11:38 AM 09/07/2009:

Did you get my text with all the info





Tiger:Sent: 11:41 AM 09/07/2009:

I will text you the room number when i get there. Im still in boston





Tiger:Sent: 11:43 AM 09/07/2009:

I have to check in to get the room





Tiger:Sent: 11:44 AM 09/07/2009:

I should get there before you anyways





Tiger:Sent: 12:27 PM 09/07/2009:

In about 3 hours





Tiger:Sent: 12:30 PM 09/07/2009:

I will be there before you for sure





Tiger:Sent: 12:35 PM 09/07/2009:

You just make sure you take care of me when you get here





Tiger:Sent: 06:28 PM 09/07/2009:

Great





Tiger:Sent: 06:30 PM 09/07/2009:

Let me know when your about 20 out i will order dinner. And what would you like to eat





Tiger:Sent: 06:33 PM 09/07/2009:

I am pretty tired after today. I am going to go to sleep early





Tiger:Sent: 06:53 PM 09/07/2009:

How close are you





Tiger:Sent: 07:09 PM 09/07/2009:

What do you want to eat





Tiger:Sent: 07:10 PM 09/07/2009:

Anything simple





Tiger:Sent: 07:12 PM 09/07/2009:

No turkey unless it's a club sandwich





Tiger:Sent: 07:32 PM 09/07/2009:

How close





Tiger:Sent: 07:38 PM 09/07/2009:

Head to the elevators and go to 334. Thats your room. The door will be open with the dead bolt. I have to get back here to wait for the food. Im in room 358.





Tiger:Sent: 07:42 PM 09/07/2009:

Let me know when you are in the room. Food just got here





Tiger:Sent: 07:47 PM 09/07/2009:

Sweet. Dont come down here yet. Lots of people in the hall. I will let you know when it clears





Tiger:Sent: 08:16 PM 09/07/2009:

Are you close to being ready





Tiger:Sent; 08:32 PM 09/07/2009:

Come on down. Its quiet here in the hall now





Tiger:Sent: 08:35 PM 09/07/2009:

There is a room service cart in my hall. Be careful





Tiger:Sent: 08:35 PM 09/07/2009:

Room358





Tiger:Sent: 09:59 PM 09/07/2009:

Make it ok





Tiger:Sent: 10:01 PM 09/07/2009:

Ok. Lights out. Good night sexy





Tiger:Sent: 08:49 AM 09/08/2009:

Hope you slept as good as i did. I just woke up which is un heard of





Tiger:Sent: 10:23 AM 09/08/2009:

So when can i have that ass again





Tiger:Sent: 12:40 PM 09/08/2009:

I will be back in a couple hours





Tiger:Sent: 12:42 PM 09/08/2009:

I have to leave for an appearance at 430 but i will be back at 730 for dinner and lots of dessert with you. How about a quickie before i go:)





Tiger:Sent: 01:28 PM 09/08/2009:

Have you ever had a golden shower done to you





Tiger:Sent: 01:29 PM 09/08/2009:

Just morbid curiosity





Tiger:Sent: 01:30 PM 09/08/2009:

Really. You. You have done just about everything havent you





Tiger:Sent: 01:32 PM 09/08/2009:

Never done it. I think i would get stage freight





Tiger:Sent: 02:28 PM 09/08/2009:

Maybe





Tiger:Sent: 03:38 PM 09/08/2009:

I will be over in 10mins





Tiger:Sent: 03:40 PM 09/08/2009:

Why dont you come over here now instead





Tiger:Sent: 03:41 PM 09/08/2009:

Enter thru room 360. Its next door





Tiger:Sent: 03:42 PM 09/08/2009:

Hurry so i come in that ass





Tiger:Sent: 03:54 PM 09/08/2009:

Let me know when you leave your room





Tiger:Sent: 07:32 PM 09/08/2009:

You felt amazing to baby. How much was your flight by the way





Tiger:Sent: 07:35 PM 09/08/2009:

Having a few issues at home. Might be a little later before i see you tonight





Tiger:Sent: 07:39 PM 09/08/2009:

Parent hood melt down:)





Tiger:Sent: 08:01 PM 09/08/2009:

How much was your flight





Tiger:Sent: 05:03 AM 09/09/2009:

Shit i fell back to sleep. just woke up. I have to leave in about 15 mins. I tee off at 700





Tiger:Sent: 07:43 PM 09/09/2009:

Great thing is we have a life time of this





Tiger:Sent: 05:44 AM 10/01/2009:

I know that. Thats why i wont do that.





Tiger:Sent: 06:02 PM 10/01/2009:

Baby im not going anywhere or doing anything. You please me like no other has or ever will. I'm not losing that. You have to understand people love to tal





Tiger:Sent: 06:02 PM 10/01/2009:

k about me. sometimes its good and sometimes its bad. I have learned to just roll with it no matter how much it upsets me when its not true. My life is a











Tiger:Sent: 06:02 PM 10/01/2009:

fish bowl





Tiger:Sent: 10:40 AM 10/04/2009:

Guys from dubai. Investors. So my agent being suggested that we go back to my room at the mansion for lunch. He doesnt know about us, obviously





Tiger:Sent: 11:31 AM 10/04/2009:

This has been a total shit trip. Im sorry i fucked up last night. And this shit. We will get it right next time so we can spend more time together.





Tiger:Sent: 12:06 PM 10/04/2009:

Oh my god. If they were with me. You would have ruined everything





Tiger:Sent: 12:07 PM 10/04/2009:

I told you. Oh my god. I cant believe what just happened





Tiger:Sent: 12:08 PM 10/04/2009:

Don't Fucking talk to me. You almost just ruined my whole life. If my agent and these guys would have seen you there, Fuck

Drudge Report Could Save Print Newspapers

snailpaper song on Youtube mentions DRUDGE








''LET DRUDGE WORD MINT'' - in lyrics











http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnZKIk1Krp8















http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/CT_bloom27_03-27-10_7MHPJL4_v19.4056cd4.html

Novelty song on Youtube mentions DRUDGE REPORT in lyrics

snailpaper song on Youtube mentions DRUDGE







''LET DRUDGE WORD MINT'' - in lyrics











http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnZKIk1Krp8















http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/CT_bloom27_03-27-10_7MHPJL4_v19.4056cd4.html

Humor song on Youtube mentions DRUDGE

snailpaper song on Youtube mentions DRUDGE








''LET DRUDGE WORD MINT'' - in lyrics











http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnZKIk1Krp8















http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/CT_bloom27_03-27-10_7MHPJL4_v19.4056cd4.html

snailpaper song on Youtube mentions DRUDGE

snailpaper song on Youtube mentions DRUDGE







''LET DRUDGE WORD MINT'' - in lyrics











http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnZKIk1Krp8















http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/CT_bloom27_03-27-10_7MHPJL4_v19.4056cd4.html

Let Drudge Word Mint

snailpaper song on Youtube mentions DRUDGE

''LET DRUDGE WORD MINT'' - in lyrics


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnZKIk1Krp8



http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/CT_bloom27_03-27-10_7MHPJL4_v19.4056cd4.html
 

Vietnamese Endangered by French Loan Words? Mais non! Je Suis Kidding!

In an article by Dr. Nguyen Dan Tet entitled "Vietnamese language damaged by invasion of French words" published this month in the Daily News,
a Vietnamese official expresses grave concern over the invasion of
French words in his nation's language.



Dr Nguyen makes this alarming prediction: "If we do not pay attention

and we do not take measures to stop French mingling with Vietnamese,

Vietnamese will no longer be a pure language in a couple of years." He

goes on to state, "In the long run, Vietnamese will lose its role as

an independent language for communicating information and expressing

human feelings."



To ensure that such a horrible fate does not become a reality, Dr

Nguyen brought forward stern recommendations before the Vietnam

People's Political Consultative Conference that was held recently in

Hanoi. Dr Nguyen's proposals would ban publications from using French

slang and other French words in daily conversation, such as pho mat

for cheese -- fromage in French -- and bo for butter -- la buerre in

French. Other French words that have invaded Vietnamese daily life

include bia for beer, moto for motorcyclette, ca vat for necktie

(cravate) and others.)





Incidentally, I know Dr Nyugen personally. He prides himself on his

French and was, in fact, a French major when he went to university at

Brown. He was was my brother David's boss at Foreign Language Press

back in the 1970s. His entire professional career has been intimately

involved with the study, teaching, and translation of French and other

foreign languages. Since he has been enormously effective in his

chosen profession of Vietnamese-French translation, he should not be

surprised at the inroads of French in Vietnam and in Vietnamese.



Thanks to Ellen Fontaine for bringing Dr Nguyen's article to my attention.

The world's first musical obit for print newspapers

http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/CT_bloom27_03-27-10_7MHPJL4_v19.4056cd4.html



World's first 'musical obit' for snailpapers

-- OPED commentary in the Providence Journal, Editorial Page


March 27, 2010

By DAN BLOOM


I’ve been working in and around newspapers for most of my life, beginning as a newspaper-delivery boy in western Massachusetts, in the 1950s.

During my teenage years, the massive edition of the Sunday New York Times would arrive at the doorstep with a welcome thud, and I’d spend the rest of the morning devouring every section of the paper, lying on the carpet of the living room.

This was a good 40 years, of course, before the Internet shook up my world, and maybe your world, too. You see, the print newspaper that you might be holding in your hands now is headed for the garbage heap of history by 2025, maybe sooner. Well, at least that’s what the doomsayers say as the Digital Age stands up proud with its Kindles and state-of-the-art iPhone e-reading apps and says good riddance to paper.

But wait a minute, I want to say, hold your horses! Print newspapers are not dead yet, and they don’t have to die. As the American writer and newspaper publisher Dave Eggers has said, there’s no reason that print newspapers and online news sites cannot co-exist.

I love print newspapers so much because, yes, of course, I grew up with them. Early life in Springfield, college years in Boston.

For the young generation today growing up with Facebook and Twitter and YouTube, it’s a totally different story, and I understand that story, too. I also have a Facebook page and a Twitter account, so I am not against pixels or E Ink or screengrabs. I just love “snailpapers,” that’s all, and I use that word as a term of endearment, as you will see.

Recently, I wrote a novelty song about newspapers called “I Just Can’t Live (Without My Daily Snailpaper)”. You can find it on YouTube. The reviews have been mixed. First the good news.

Diana McClellan, a retired Washington, D.C., gossip columnist who rose to fame at the now-defunct Washington Star — defunct, in fact, since 1981 (it had a 128-year run, beginning in 1852) — listened to the video and told me: “This is the world’s first musical obit for newspapers!”

Carl Bernstein’s in the song, in the second verse (along with Bob Woodward and Ben Bradlee, their boss at The Washington Post during Watergate days), and after he listened to it, he told me in a brief e-mail about a week later: “Your newspaper love song is delightful, the message is right and your voice is on target.”

Full disclosure: The dude singing the song is not me. I hired a retired dentist in Texas named J. Gale Kilgore to record the song in his home studio and a video firm to make the scrolling lyrics video.

Jeffrey Jolson-Colburn, publisher and editor of the online news site Hollywood Today (and the grandson of Al Jolson, by the way), said the lyrics resonated with him. “I’ve been publisher or editor of 12 newspapers, about half of them print newspapers and half of them online news sites. I wish all were print papers. I’ve got ink in my veins. However, online is only way to stay alive now.”

But not everyone agrees with the song’s intent. Every song has its critics.

I asked a young woman in Australia, screen name Bella Kyee, who I met by chance on Facebook, if she reads any newspapers Down Under and if had any advice on how to help the song go viral on the Internet. She replied in a succinct one-line note, which I reproduce here in its entirety, verbatim: “Noooo! . . . I don’t do newspapers . . . HAHAHA!”

Will print newspapers survive the current onslaught of the Digital Age? I don’t know the answer, but I sure hope they do.

I am not anti-Internet and I am not a Luddite, all humor in my song aside. I embrace digital as much as I embrace paper and print. E Ink is amazing. The blogosphere lights up my life 24/7. I can’t imagine a world without computers or screens or iPods or iPads, and while the coming roll-out of Apple’s iPad might put several more nails in the coffin of print newspapers, I still want to stand up for newspapers and say: “Long may they live!”

So what is the purpose of my song? Hopefully, it will prod newsroom people and news consumers and Brown and Tufts professors to reflect on just where the future of good journalism lies. Like Dave Eggers, I feel it lies in both paper and on screens.

As for the term “snailpapers” that I coined for the song, Paul Gillin, of the Newspaper Death Watch blog, said it well: “[Bloom] thinks maybe if newspapers poked more fun at themselves instead of getting all righteously indignant about new media, they would generate more sympathy.”

It’s true. Print newspapers arrive on our doorsteps in the morning with news that is already perhaps six hours old. That’s a snailpaper, by definition.

But as the song says, “I just can’t live without my daily snailpaper!”

Can you?

On the Web: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnZKIk1Krp8


Dan Bloom is the creator of this blog.

The Post-Craiglist Newspaper Will Survive in its own Right

or.....The Post-Craiglist Newspaper Will Survive as a Radical Rewrite?

The overwhelming consensus among Americans who still read newspapers

The overwhelming consensus among Americans who still read newspapers
is that there are two great dailies left standing and, with apologies
to the largely emasculated Washington Post, they’re easily identified
as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. There’s an overlap,
of course, as hundreds of thousands still subscribe to or buy both
papers, but increasingly the lines are drawn: you’re in one camp or
the other. I’m a long-standing Journal partisan—it’s the first deluge
of news and opinion that I read each morning—and although the Times is
still delivered to my doorstep every day, it often goes untouched,
save for a scan of the front page and then my wife clipping out the
crossword puzzle.

Print media is not on deathbed

Print media is not on deathbed

ON THE RECORD

By Michael Giusti
mdgiusti@loyno.edu

Michael Giusti is the Maroon adviser and teaches journalism in the
School of Mass Communication.









If you listen to the media critics, you might think it is time to stop the presses and go home.

The critics will tell you that newspapers across the country are bleeding money. They will say paper is too expensive. They will point out that readership of newspapers has fallen, which must mean the industry is dying.

They will say that college students don’t read paper newspapers anymore. They will point to newsroom layoffs and buyouts and say that the end is nigh for paper-based journalism.

The problem is, they are wrong.

In a typical newspaper, the actual paper and ink accounts for less than 15 percent of total expenses. The real cost is the people, the journalists who gather and deliver the news day in and day out.

Those people would still be necessary even if you publish online only, which is why I call myself platform agnostic. As long as I am being paid to be a journalist, I don’t care if my work comes delivered on paper or through pixels. But for now, paper is the best and most profitable delivery method. Don’t believe me? Read on.

Setting your focus on the ink and paper is short sighted and shows a lack of understanding in how the news industry operates.

In one sense, though, the media critics are right — there is something that is ailing newspapers. But it is not the paper they are printed on. The problem with newspapers can be summed up in one word — Craigslist.

From a consumer’s standpoint, Craigslist is great. It offers free classifieds — something that used to cost money for the typical landlord, or potential employer, or seller of used dishwashers. And how could getting that service for free be a bad thing?

Well, from the news industry’s perspective, those $30 ads used to add up to big money. They used to pay the top salaries for the experienced and best reporters — journalists who are now losing their jobs.

But you know what? Craigslist is a better product than the majority of print classified advertising, and we need to accept that the classified revenue stream is gone and will never come back.

The problem is that classifieds added up to a significant portion of a typical newspaper’s profits each year. To see just how much money we are talking about, lets look at Lee Enterprises.

Never heard of Lee Enterprises? That’s what makes them the perfect bellwether for the typical newspaper. Lee Enterprises owns about 350 small newspapers all across the nation. Since their biggest newspaper is the St. Louis Post Dispatch (and not a behemoth in New York or Washington, D.C.), Lee gives us a snapshot of what is going on under the hood of a typical newspaper.

In 2006, before Craigslist went fully mainstream, Lee Enterprises earned close to 40 percent of its annual revenues from classified advertising — more than $300 million. By 2009, that number had plummeted nearly in half to $162 million, cutting the heart out of Lee’s balance sheet.

By comparison, Lee’s traditional advertising accounted for $464 million in 2006 and only fell by about 20 percent in that same timeframe (which, if you remember, includes the Great Recession).

Absent that post-Craigslist drop in classifieds, things would not necessarily be looking rosy in our nation’s newsrooms, but we wouldn’t be seeing the bloodbath going on today at newspapers across the country.

Classifieds and traditional advertising fell a combined 30 percent over three years. In response, newspapers had to cut their expenses accordingly and slashed their staffs by a similar number.

By any measure, it hurts to see veteran news reporters leave their longtime posts. There is no denying that. But, with the dominance of Craigslist, there was also no avoiding it.

The reality, however, is that, far from being an ominous sign, those cuts are actually a healthy move for the industry.

With their leaner personnel roles, newsrooms can continue operating within their tighter post-Craigslist budgets.

Most publicly traded newspapers are now posting positive numbers, and many are even on track to post profits for the first quarter of this year.

And the best news is that advertising traditionally follows the overall economy, and both the economy and advertising are looking up for this year.

Saying that newspapers’ woes can be chalked up to the Internet is short sighted and naive.

For now, the business model for print publications is solid, and I plan to read my newspaper in its paper edition long into the future — or at least until something comes along that does the job better. But that’s a discussion for another day.

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7 comments \

Anonymous Fri Mar 26 2010 08:48 see my song about print media and snailmail and snailpapers, humor here
Anonymous Thu Mar 25 2010 11:10 Newspapers are the first and still the best wireless, portable news devices available. Newspapers have higher profit margins than oil companies, and larger audiences in their markets than the super bowl. Consolidation of newspaper companies and the subsequent debt service is the biggest reason their profits are down, far obscuring the drops in ad revenues. Union contracts in newsrooms and production facilities make it difficult for newspapers to cut their costs to match revenue's ebb and flow. The average reporter contributes less than one story per issue in non-union shops, and less than one story per week in union shops. Unions kill every business they invade, and newspapers are no exception. The newspapers with the most union employees are in the most financial peril. But newspapers will survive, despite unionized journalists and disgruntled former journalists.
Ben Thu Mar 25 2010 09:52 No offence, but it is opinions like yours that are leading newspapers into a full sense of security. Newspapers and newspaper advertising in their current form is all but dead. Its team papers relished the future, the journalists are the blood of the organisation, whether they stay in print form or internet or ipad etc. Without them the paper goes no where except bust, if they turn to the net for instance they will still have an audience (and an ever expanding one). As they say, for every newspaper reader who dies they are not replaced, newspapers and their distribution cycle simply are not cost effective any more and the standard advertising model does not work. With proper effort and skills online papers and lower circulation newspapers do work and do hugely turnaround profits, if done right.
Tim Windsor Thu Mar 25 2010 06:58 The old saw goes: "You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts" is due for an invocation here. While it may be true that paper and ink account for 15% of some newspaper's budgets, that's a meaningless figure, not unlike citing the price of sheet-metal and paint in the car manufacturing process. In truth, the entire print production process -- printing it, binding and baling it, and driving it to your home or to the newsstand -- accounts for something much more like 60% of a typical newspaper's cost. The journalists themselves represent a much, much smaller slice. So your base assumption is just wrong.
As for *whether* newspapers should survive in print, that's opinion. In my opinion, strong environmental and business efficiency arguments can be made against the paper part of a newspaper company. Why saddle the business with 19th century technology for the sake of nostalgia? True, papers have made a mess of the digital transformation so far, but that doesn't mean they should just give up and re-embrace the wasteful medium of print.

Anonymous Wed Mar 24 2010 02:14 The most shocking thing about your commentary is that you are "paid to be a journalist." How can that be? I've never seen your work before, but I'm not impressed. You are right in pointing out that Craigslist usurped a big chunk of revenue (and provides a better delivery vehicle), and you are correct in saying that humans are the biggest cost of newspapers. However, you are dead wrong about staff cuts being better for the industry. Newspapers are relying more and more on inexperienced freelancers and agenda-driven readers to fill their pages. More mistakes are getting into newspapers -- and not just typos because the copy desk is shorthanded, but huge gaffes made by people who don't understand or care about journalistic ethics. Newshole is shrinking, and papers across the country are all starting to look like an AP-dominated USA Today. Arts critics are often the first to be laid off, with papers filling the gaps with so many wire reviews that only a handful of critical voices remain. Meanwhile, the profits that you mention are being recycled into bonuses for the same editors and executives whose bad decisions aided the economic decline of news organizations. You apparently still have a platform to address these issues, and yet you use it to say, "Hey, it's OK -- I've got a job." It will be interesting to see if your voice will still be heard once you're relegated to the vast wasteland of the blogosphere.
Anonymous Sun Mar 21 2010 12:42 Who needs paper? newspapers s*ck
Anonymous Sat Mar 20 2010 01:40 Hogwash
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Crash Blossom Here: "Google deals in doubt amid PRC spat" - spotted by Tim Maddog

A good example of a bad ''crash blossom'' headline, spotted by Tim Maddog in Taiwan today:

"Google deals in doubt amid PRC spat"


http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2010/03/26/2003468999

Tim asks: Does this mean"Google deals in doubt," or are their deals in doubt? Verb or noun?

French loan words in Vietnam today memorialize colonial days in Indochina

IN REMEMBRANCE OF LOAN WORDS PAST

French loan words in Vietnam today memorialize colonial days in Indochina.
Danny Bloom explores

[ * (hat tips to language maven Ben Zimmer of the New York Times to steering me in the
right direction; MaryJo Pham at Tufts for same, and Andrea Q. Nguyen for same! and Chi-Minh De Leo in Vietnam for same! And Anhycakes for corrections! And Minh T. Reigen.) ]

http://lnat1001.blogspot.com/2010/06/tu-vay-muon-cua-tieng-phap.html





Hanoi in 2010 in northern Vietnam was celebrating its
claimed beginnings as a city in
the year 1010. One can imagine the fireworks and festivities that
occurred nationwide, but especially in the north, and particularly in Hanoi.

According to legends handed down to the current city fathers of Hanoi
today, it was in 1010 that a king by the name of
Ly Thai Tho claimed to have seen a
dragon rising up from a nearby river, and he decided to call his
temporary settlement along the banks of that river Thang Long: "rising
dragon." Hanoi itself gets its name from the Vietnamese word "hanoi,"
which means ''a bend in the river'.' Welcome to the name game in
southeast Asia!

LOAN WORDS GALORE...

Before the Americans got involved in a long and protacted war in
Vietnam in the 1960s and 70s, the French had been heavily involved in
the country for over 300 years. From 1853 to 1954, France ran Vietnam
as an
overseas colony. As a result, as one can imagine, Vietnam's French
colonial past has left
its mark on the country's language. The Vietnamese word for cheese,
''pho mat'', comes from the French word ''fromage,'' and cake is called "ga to",
from the French word "gateau."



During a recent research expedition via keyboard and Internet, this

non-Vietnamese non-French yet curious reporter came across over 50


"loan words" from French still used in Vietnam today, in addiiton to

pho mat and ga to. To understand

what follows, it helps to know a little French, but even if you never

studied French in school and you don't

know bonjour from bonsoir, take a look at what some erudiate word

sleuths have unearthed.





Liver pate is called "pa" in Vietnam today. Pate chaud, according to
foodie with a website Andrea Nguyen, is called "pa so."



"Ba" -- father -- comes from the French word "papa."



"Va li" comes from the the French word for suitcase -- valise.


"Bo" (beurre), and "ri-do" (rideau, drapes, curtain), I learned from Andrea Q. Nguyen today, too.
[ See Andrea's great blogs here: http://www.vietworldkitchen.com/ and http://www.asiandumplingtips.com/ ]





"Bia" comes from the French word for beer, "biere."



A doll is called a "bup-be" in Vietnam, from the French word "poupee"

for puppet.



What to call a necktie on that senior civil servant giving a press

conference on Hanoi TV? It's a "ca vat" -- from the French word

"cravate."



There's more. I think French speakers would find this topic

fascinating, and while my high school French is very rusty indeed after 40

years in the field, researching and writing this article has been a

trip down memory lane. Our high school teacher Mlle. Landry, who was

an American who looked like a bit like Brigitte Bardot -- or so we

freshman boys felt -- started me off on this quest, and I hope she is

reading this, too. Merci, Mlle. Landry, vous avez aidze moi tres

beaucoup pendante ma vie completelment interesante!



Now back to Vietnam and the French.


"Phim" means "movie" and comes from the French word "film".



A "pha" is a headlight on your car or motorscooter, from the French

word "phare".



Motorscooters and motorcycles are themselves are called "moto" -- from

"motorcyclette".



Did I make a mistake? In French, they call it a "faute". In Vietnam

today, people say "phot".



"Bit-tet" is of course from the French term "biftek" -- beefsteak, or

just plain steak. Oishii!



Coffee is called "cà phê" from the French word "cafe".

There is also '' cà rem '' for ice cream.


Wine is called "vang" (le vin). Soap is called "xa bong" (savon). A

circus is called "xiec" (from the French word "cirque").

Another loan word, according to Anhycakes, is "bôm" (alternative to táo) for apple, from the French word "pomme." She tells this blog she has also heard "đầm" for a lady, from the French word "dame."



I never knew any of this. I have never been to Vietnam. But being an armchair traveller is fun, too,

and I can dream, n'est-ce pas?



Much of my research came from the work

of Dr Milton Barber (via New York Times "On Language" columnist Ben Zimmer's wonderful hat tip direction!), whose "The Phonological Adaptation of French Loan

Words in Vietnamese" was my main resource here. He wrote that in 1963

during America's military operations in Vietnam.



I didn't go to

Vietnam. But I did go to France. For a year. I dropped out of college to go

travelling for a year in France, mostly drinking coffee in sidewalk

cafe in Paris all day and going to the movies at night at the

Cinemateque Francais. Those were the days. A year in paradise,

oo-la-la! Oui, oui.It was cold and raining every day!



Now I have several Vietnamese friends in Taiwan where I dwell in a computer-less cave with no WiFi. These women have married Taiwanese men and number in the tens of thousands in Taiwan

now. More then 90 percent of new foreign brides in Taiwan are from

Vietnam.

So every day, I practice some of these French loan words with

my Vietnamese neighbors and their children, and sip '' cà phê ''  while

eating some good delicious ''pho''. Noodles. Lamen.



Welcome to the Global Tower of Babel, where we are one people, one

race, many genepools, billions of souls. I love it.



Amusez-vous bien! Or as my grandmother Bella say from her perch in Heaven -- "Enjoy!"


(c) 2010 Dime Store Novels
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NOTA BENE: for a fuller list of loan words, email the author of this article at bikolang@gmail.com

'''Oh my, there's bo (beurre), ri-do (rideau, drapes)''

NOTES: MaryJo Pham, a junior at Tufts University in Boston tells me:  ''This topic has always interested me, since I'm an American-born Vietnamese who still uses this (to many of today's Vietnamese youths) old-fashioned way of speaking. A brief list off the top of my head to add your very good one:

Piscine is still in use for swimming pool....

café = cá phê = coffee

cyclo = xích lô = bicycle drawn rickshaw

yaourt = da ua = yogurt

creme = cà rem = ice cream

fermeture = phẹc mỏ tua = zipper

jupe = jupe? = skirt

soutien = sú chiên = brassiere

pin = pin = battery

Motor = Môtô = motor bike, motorcycle, etc.

[You can see what came along with the introduction of the actual transliteration of the words -- batteries, brasseries, coffee -- things indispensable to daily life in Vietnam. And foodstuffs that have long been incorporated into the national menu -- banh mi pate (french baguette with pate, meats, very good!), Vietnamese-style frozen yogurt, Vietnamese drip-coffee with condensed milk, etc.]
[I feel as if some of the vocabulary is used (esp. concerning clothing) among certain classes/neighborhoods (urban vs. suburban/out of Saigon/Hanoi areas). ]
 
MaryJo adds: ''I've never heard of doc-to, I feel that it's always been the Vietnamese "bac si."


Pate = pate, pate so for pate chaud; pa itself doesn't refer to pate.

Bo is still definitely in use -- no other word for it! :)..BUTTER! ''
 
and...''Phim, for movies, film , yes!




'Pa' has no meaning in Vietnamese, as far as I know. I looked it up on www.vdict.com to check. (useful site)

Greetings are not usually used; although -- I think it depends on generations -- I know my grandparents who until recently lived in Saigon still use 'merci' and 'bonne nuit.' It depends. A lot of the people who would use those terms were educated/part of the French colonial system (my mom went to Lycee Marie Curie, etc.) and were of a different, directly westernized/colonized class. Very interesting. Most of those people left Vietnam very early, around 1975 - 80 after the fall of Saigon. Few remain...

Jim Brozina, Kristen Brozina - NEWS BELOW

The Times article was deftly written and a great read. "And if any of you are Hollywood producers, we suggest you quickly snap up the rights to this lovely story," said Mark at storybird blog.

i read NY Times reading STREAK story, i wanted to help pay for Kristen Brozina's grad school education at grad school this fall....

UPATE: According to sources, Kristen has a chance now to write a book about her experiences reading reading reading (as detailed by the Times story) and if a book deal comes through -- you can imagine that a few literary agents reading that great Michael Winerup story in the Times over their morning coffee that day immediately JUMPED at the IDEA to contact Dad and Daughter and ask them if they might be interested in a BOOK DEAL.... I don't know the details, but my guess is that a good book deal with enable Kristen to attend grad school this fall with the advance she will earn -- the book might be co-written by Dad and Daughter, I don't know details, just guessing -- so all is well in New Jersey today and Kristen will go to grad school after all and she will pay for it by herself with advance and royalties from the book and whatever other spinoffs happen, like TV appearances etc. Go get em, Kristen, and God bless! What  a nice happy ending to a nice happy story in the snailpapers last week!

RE:


BECAUSE the Times article said she did not have the money to go to grad school this fall even though she has been accepted with flying colors.....So I offered to help with the finances......

DEAR NY TImes snailpaper and online:
i read Michael Vinerup's heart-lighting ''ReAding STREAK'' story, i want to help pay for Kristen Brozina's education at grad school, please contact me

DAN BLOOM, Tufts 1971,


or FWD to her father jim Brozina  and her


re
".....and recently Kristen was accepted to the


master’s in liberal arts program at the University of Pennsylvania.

She doesn’t have the money to go. But certain as that jertain, the


young woman has a plan: She’s going to get a job when she graduates,


save and reapply in a year or two.

I see by the snailpapers that Jules Quartly in Beijing has penned an interesting article about ....."you are what you search for on the Web"...

He writes, on March 17, before news surfaced that the sale was NOT going on as planned....

On Thursday we should find out whether love or money is more important to us, when an auction for the domain name sex.com goes ahead in New York. Currently, sitting on top of the most expensive domain name pile is insure.com, which was bought for US$1.6 million in 2001 and fetched 10 times that figure last year when an insurance company bought it.



The clairvoyant owner of a dating website first registered the name sex.com in 1996 and it fetched US$14 million in 2006. The smart money is on it once more becoming the most expensive domain name in the world. Bidding starts at US$1 million.



Do the math and domain names look like blue-chip investments, recession proof and a guaranteed earner without having to do any work, beyond sending an e-mail and credit card number to the registrar.



As for the world's other most costly domain names, Friedrich Nietzsche was most insightful: “When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you”. He obviously wasn't thinking of the Web, but he might as well have been. As soon as we start searching for what interests us, it shows us who we are.






Therefore, we shouldn't be too surprised to find that domain names relating to sex and money top the charts, while beer, diamonds, gambling, toys and, oddly perhaps, Israel, are the other candidates for what fetches top dollar in terms of Internet searches.






There will be a revolution in the world of domain names, however, when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) introduces addresses with non-Latin characters, sometime later this year.






For the first time, Web addresses written in Chinese, Arabic and other languages will be allowed.






It will be the biggest transformation in ICANN's existence because, of the approximately 1.6 billion Internet users, more than half use languages that are not Latin-based.



According to Internetworldstats.com the number of English users is 27.6 percent, while Chinese-language users are 22.1 percent.






While those who do not write in English were previously sidelined by having to use the language or Latin-based characters, a new universe will open up to these people. Instead of being predominantly English or ABC-centric, the World Wide Web will become what it says it is.






It will be like the Tower of Babel all over again.






China is ahead of the curve on this one. It has been testing systems that allow users to enter Web addresses in Chinese characters for some time, and you can bet there are a million and one people out there shaping up to register the most popular character domains.






For sure, they will be the Chinese-language equivalents of sex, money and the rest. Some things never change.

[By Jules Quartly, China Daily/Asia News Network]

A new Facebook trend: telling FBers which famous person you share a birthday with....

Which famous person or people do you share a birthday with? I predict this will be the next FB craze......



 for example, William Norman Messman tells FB that he shares a mirthday , strike that, birthday, with Maryanne Faithful over at Mr Hammond's page today....the beginning of a FB trend?

and now Teresa Leigh Roberts at FB now tells this page that she shares a mirthday, er, birthday, with Mae West. [Cool. A trend is born. New York Times and NPR to report soon. !]

I see by the snailpapers that Rory Fitzgerald understands a few things about Jews and the Irish.....

He writes in a piece titled "Danny boys - a firm Irish and Jewish kinship".....




The Irish writer Brendan Behan once remarked: "Others have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis." That may be a little harsh, but he was on to something.


These two ancient peoples were destined to wander the world as outsiders, knowing suspicion and derision wherever they went. Through it all, both maintained tight and close bonds with their own kin, even in the farthest corners of the earth.



Both peoples have suffered at the hands of cruel oppressors. Both have homelands that are small, sacred and contested. And very ancient: Ireland and Israel both boast monuments far older than the pyramids of Egypt. Some even dare to speculate that the Irish may be connected to one of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Stone burial chambers called dolmens, dating from around 4,000 BCE, are found in both Ireland and Israel.



In more recent times, the Irish and the Jews have inordinately swollen the ranks of genius. A disproportionate number of Nobel laureates have Jewish or Irish origins. And it is no accident that Leopold Bloom, the central character in James Joyce's novel, Ulysses, is an Irish Jew. As Professor Thomas Casey of the Gregorian University in Rome argues, "surely Joyce was struck by parallels between the Jewish and Irish experience: persecution, a lost homeland, exile and a global diaspora."



Other reasons for the choice of Bloom, Casey suggests, "may have been the fact that a Jewish 'good Samaritan' named Alfred Hunter came to Joyce's rescue when he was mugged in Dublin in 1904" and --- "probably the most significant reason" -- Joyce's 16 years in Trieste, where he befriended many Jews, "the most famous of them being Italo Svevo, whom Joyce took under his wing, championing this previously ignored writer."



While many Irish and Jewish people now live in the beautiful, small, intense homelands of Ireland and Israel, the greater portion of both remain scattered to the four corners of the Earth --- most notably in the United States.



From the humblest of beginnings, the Irish and the Jews rose to prominence in America by the mid-20th century. By the time of President Kennedy's election in 1960, Irish and Jewish Americans were two of the wealthiest and most successful ethnic groups in the United States.



And Jewish and Irish collaboration in America has contributed to some of the most extraordinary human achievements: the space race, the moon landings, and the defeat of communism and, before that, Nazism. This last is attested to in cold white marble at the American cemetery in Normandy, where many Irish-Americans and Jewish-Americans lie side by side.



For Irishmen, this past week's celebration of St Patrick's Day 2010 commemorates more than just the coming of Christianity to Ireland. Irish Christians are particularly conscious of their religion's Jewish basis --- monotheism, the Torah, the Ten Commandments, and the fact that Joshua ben Joseph, aka Jesus, was a Jew.



As we strive to achieve lasting peace in our respective homelands, it is heartening to note that the Irish and the Jews share far more similarities than differences.



Rory Fitzgerald is an Irish journalist. Long may he live and prosper!

International ational Snailpapers Day on April 7 hopes to help save print newspapers

PRESS RELEASE - International Snailpapers Day on April 7 hopes to help save print newspapers.



contact DAN BLOOM danbloom@gmail.com
AVAILABLE For INTERVIEW 24/7 antyime , email me

http://zippy1300.blogspot.com/2010/03/national-snailpapers-day-hopes-to-help.html




Snailpapers Day hopes to help save print newspapers. April 7

is the day.





Embargoed Until Published: April 6, 2010





For Danny Bloom, longtime newspaperman and lover of all things

newspaperish, April 7 will be what he hopes will become an annual day

of reflection.



That's exactly what he is is trying to promote with the

first annual INTERNational Snailpapers Day on April 7.





The experiment, which begins tomorrow, is the brainchild of Bloom, a

60 year old newspaper fanatic -- who even collects front pages from

around the world-- for whom the day will be a good way to add some

humor and reflection to the issue of where newspapers -- he calls them

snailpapers as a term of endearment, not derision -- are headed.









Bloom said that reading

a print newspaper is vital in today's world.









Organizers hope the day of will draw attention to Bloom's novelty song

titled "I Just Can't Live (Without My Daily Snailpaper)", now getting

lots of hits at YouTube.











“The topic that was on my mind was whether there was room for an

annual Snailpaper Day within our increasingly hectic lives,” Bloom

said. “I was feeling like, as we were

getting more and more plugged-in, and our interactive experience was

getting richer, there was something that was disappearing as well. We

need to save print newspapers.”







The Snailpaper Statement, [GOOGLE IT], was written to remind people that

print newspapers play a vital role in our lives.





Bloom said the idea of a international Snailpaper Day is very important for

all Americans.







“As a retired newspaper editor and reporter, and as a contemporary

American, never before in my life has there been such an awareness of

the way that technology and contemporary culture have a tug at every

aspect of our being,”he said. “I don’t think we’re aware of the manner

in which technological innovation is changing the way we think and

read, the way we process information, the way we engage in

relationships with meaning." Celebrating international Snailpaper Day is “a

powerful action in the face of a fast-paced way of living,” he added.







Bloom is promoting theday day via (what else?) Twitter, Facebook and

YouTube. But he emphasizes direct personal interaction, for example

going cold turkey with one's Internet news sites and spending the

entire day reading only print newspapers and magazines.







Bloom said he estimated only a few hundred people around the world

would participate in various ways at first, but hoped the publicity

would increase those numbers in coming years. Observers of the day are

being encouraged to share their experiences online at

http://zippy1300.blogspot.com/2010/03/national-snailpapers-day-hopes-to-help.html


once the day is over.

"National Snailpapers Day" on April 7 hopes to help save print newspapers

PRESS RELEASE

National Snailpapers Day hopes to help save print newspapers. April 7 is the day.


ToBe Published: April 6, 2010





For Danny Bloom, longtime newspaperman and lover of all things newspaperish, tomorrow will be what he hopes will become an annual day of reflection.

That's exactly what he is is trying to promote this weekend with the first annual National Snailpapers Day on April 7. Tomorrow!


The experiment, which begins tomorrow, is the brainchild of Bloom, a 60 year old newspaper fanatic who even collects front pages from around the world, and for whom the day will be a good way to add some humor and reflection to the issue of where newspapers -- he calls them snailpapers as a term of endearment, not derision -- are headed.




Bloom said that reading
a print newspaper is vital in today's world.




Organizers hope the day of will draw attention to Bloom's theme song titled "I Just Can't Live (Without My Daily Snailpaper)", now getting lots of hits at YouTube.





“The topic that was on my mind was whether there was room for an annual Snailpaper Day within our increasingly hectic lives,” Bloom said in a recent phone interview. “I was feeling like, as we were getting more and more plugged-in, and our interactive experience was getting richer, there was something that was disappearing as well. We need to save print newspapers.”



The Snailpaper Statement, GOOGLE IT, was written to remind people that print newspapers play a vital role in our lives.


Bloom said the idea of a national Snailpaper Day is very important for all Americans.



“As a former newspaper editor and reporter, and as a contemporary American, never before in my life has there been such an awareness of the way that technology and contemporary culture have a tug at every aspect of our being,”he said. “I don’t think we’re aware of the manner in which technological innovation is changing the way we think and read, the way we process information, the way we engage in relationships with meaning." Celebrating national Snailpaper Day is “a powerful action in the face of a fast-paced way of living,” he added.



Bloom is promoting theday day via (what else?) Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. But he emphasizes direct personal interaction, for example going cold turkey with one's Internet news sites and spending the entire day reading only print newspapers and magazines.



Bloom said he estimated only a few hundred people around the world would participate in various ways at first, but hoped the publicity would increase those numbers in coming years. Observers of the day are being encouraged to share their experiences online at danbloom at gmail dot com once the day is over.

I see by the snailpapers that Carl Hoffman has a new book out about "the malodorous undercarriage of travel" called THE LUNATIC EXPRESS.....

Yes, and "The Lunatic Express" is coming into a station near you very very soon!

The Lunatic Express was pubbed (that's booktalk for "published") on March 16  and there was a book party Washington DC on March 20. Later, on April 17, be there or be square, there will be a book signing at Politics and Prose on Connecticut Avenue. Will Ben Bradlee stop on by? Stay tuned.
Says one unabashed fan, and all fans should be unabashed, for sure:

"Throw away the luscious tour brochures and dive into the malodorous undercarriage of travel. This not transformation; this is transportation in all its glorious bastardy.
Carl Hoffman has reinvented the travel log as the supreme theater of paradox. At its most successful his travels are a search for an unholy grail -- something freakish, something dangerous, something authentic.
Hoffman is a romantic and an adventurer who adheres to the great Cartesian principle: 'What we perceive clearly and distinctly is true.' Like Sam Beckett he explores the corrosive loneliness of being alive, and the courage it takes to continue, no matter the fallowness of the landscape; no matter the heavy sweat of movement; no matter the eructable smells; no matter the clanky haulage.
Hoffman is a great explainer. But his explanations are not reductive. He regroups both the unfamiliar and what we think we know about the world and makes the eye fresh. He stands for what is articulate, independent, exploratory and for humanity as a work in progress.
Forget the inoculations, disregard protection, take this ride and find the way to interconnectedness. Verity and understanding."



Oh, that was Richard Bangs,  Producer, Host of the Public Television series "Adventures With Purpose."



hat tip to the Wall St Journal  03/15/2010 Planes, Trains And Miseries

A Randy Newman-style novelty song to help save newspapers a la Weird Al Yankovich

A novelty song to help save newspapers in the digital age



For Danny Bloom, longtime newspaperman from Springfield, Mass., the prospect of seeing print newspapers disappear someday as they are replaced by Internet news site, got him to thinking. And
humming. And a song was born!

Bloom calls the song "I Just Can't Live (Without My Daily Snailpaper)". He asked a retired dentist
in Big Spring, Texas -- J. Gale Kilgore -- to record the song and arrange the music, and the it's now on
YouTube for all newspaper-lovers to see and listen to.

The video displays the lyrics of the song in a scrolling fashion as the words are sung. It's fun to watch,
and also food for thought.

Bloom, who used to deliver newspapers on his bicycle as a part-time job after school, and later went on to study journalism at Tufts University in Boston, has lad a long career working for print newspapers around
the world, from Washington D.C. to Alaska, with side trips as well to English-language newspapers in Tokyo and Taipei.



"This song is a nostalgic trip down memory lane," Bloom says. "I hope it makes people realize how important newspapers are in American life, and what a sad day it will be if we ever lose print newspapers completely. I'm not
a Luddite, and I love the Internet, too, but I am a big fan of print newspapers, and this song is my love song to
newspapers and newspaper people (and newspaper readers!) everywhere."

One wit in Washington told Bloom his song was "the world's first musical obit for newspapers." Although he realizes
the remark was made in jest, he also knows that time will tell what will happen to newspaper culture in the futrure.

"We might be reading all our news on the Internet by 2025," Bloom says. "So my song is a love song, and maybe a swan
song as well. Still, I soldier on with my love for print. I hope newspapers survive."


To hear the song and see the lyrics, go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnZKIk1Krp8
 

Three YouTube videos tackle the "How to Save Newspapers" theme

-- Ted Rallo, Jesse Brown and Danny Bloom zero in on the meme in separate videos making the Internet rounds (as mentioned on Romenesko, Eqentia, Newspaper Death Watch and other newspaper blogs)

TED RALL's video  -- 3,200 hits
Stop the Presses: How to Save Newspapers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7qd8v8v2qk


JESSE BROWN"s video -- 16,000 hits
Save the Newspaper!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huuNHtbp1oE



DANNY BLOOM"s Video and Song  -- 1,200 hits
"I Just Can't Live (Without My Daily Snailpaper)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnZKIk1Krp8

Stop the Presses: "How to Save Newspapers" by Danny "Snailpaperman" Bloom

Danny "Snailpaperman" Bloom, age 10, Springfield, Massachusetts, newspaper delivery boy for the Springfield Union owned by the Newhouse family

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnZKIk1Krp8

can a mere novelty song save newspapers? no. but it can go a long way to putting a nostalgic smile on your face. take a listen.
 
BE PART OF THE ... 10,000 PEOPLE hit views ... SOON TO VISIT THIS HUMOR SONG SITE, [WITH BITE!]

口政策白皮書自民國97年3月迄今，實施已近2年，為了解人口政策白皮書實行的具體成效，並因應國內外社經環境變遷，內政部部長江宜樺於今(15)日下午召開「內政部人口政策委員會第42次委員會議」。會後，他轉述與會成員一致認為，鼓勵生育需要一個響亮的口號，因此內政部打算透過公開徵選的方式，砸下百萬重金，提供最高獎金新台幣一百萬元，徵求各界提供一個有創意、能引起社會共鳴，「讓大家聽了想生小孩」的口號。

Dear Mr. Daniel,


Greetings from MOI (Ministry of the Interior). Taiwan

Your mail sent on 3/18/2010 has been received. First of all, thank you so much for paying close attention to this big issue with us together in Taiwan. We appreciate your efforts on willing to help us contributing a creative slogan to increase birth rate.

However, the contest has not opened yet right now. Our staffs are processing the contest rule and all details will be announced once ready. In addition to the slogan, your idea or any suggestion of how to boost falling birth rate to Taiwan is always welcomed.

Once again, thanks for being enthusiastic and supportive to Taiwan.

With gratitude,

Ministry of the Interior(ROC).
 
口政策白皮書自民國97年3月迄今，實施已近2年，為了解人口政策白皮書實行的具體成效，並因應國內外社經環境變遷，內政部部長江宜樺於今(15)日下午召開「內政部人口政策委員會第42次委員會議」。會後，他轉述與會成員一致認為，鼓勵生育需要一個響亮的口號，因此內政部打算透過公開徵選的方式，砸下百萬重金，提供最高獎金新台幣一百萬元，徵求各界提供一個有創意、能引起社會共鳴，「讓大家聽了想生小孩」的口號。




江部長表示，此次會議主要針對97至98年執行之各項措施進行檢討，並審議如何修正「人口政策白皮書」之具體措施。由於我國少子女化及高齡化問題日趨嚴峻，與會委員皆一致主張應深入檢討人口政策白皮書各項具體措施，妥為增刪或修正，並排定優先順序。因此，江部長責成內政部同仁針對少子女化、高齡化及移民社會等三個議題，邀請人口政策專家學者，召開專案會議，對白皮書修正措施一一檢視，再送人口政策委員會第43次會議審議後報請行政院核定。



江部長說，97年至98年人口政策的主要執行成效，除了政策規劃研議外，第一階段的執行成果在於法案的通過與執行。他舉例，為了讓父母親能夠無後顧之憂地育養子女，配合「育嬰留職津貼」的規劃，修正通過攸關勞工的「就業保險法」與保障公教人員的「公教人員保險法」；為因應高齡化社會來臨，通過「國民年金法」，並於97年10月開辦國民年金保險；移民部分則是制訂「人口販運防治法」。



江部長表示，未來研修人口政策白皮書的具體措施，在因應少子女化部分，將過去著重於發放津貼的方式，進一步修正為「不只是發放津貼」，進而全面性的完成各項政策配套措施，包括完成幼托整合政策；研議現行各項兒童托育津貼之整合；研擬學前教育指標，建立學前資料庫，進而與國際資料庫接軌；推動普及多元之教保服務；建構多元化生育保健服務網絡等等。他說，過去大家以為發放津貼就可以鼓勵生育，但民調顯示，要鼓勵年青人養育子女，除了每個月數千元的育兒津貼外，更需要其他政策配套措施與社會氛圍的營造。



江部長說，在高齡化部分，除了推動長期照顧保險外，未來將由「以房養老」的規劃，朝向「以不動產養老」來進行可行性評估，並提出試辦模式。他解釋，「以不動產養老」是個範圍較大的定義，不動產可包括房屋、土地等，將不侷限於房屋，對於中南部擁有土地的老年人，較為有利。



移民部分則包括建構生物特徵辨識系統，落實國境維安，兼顧便民與通關安全；研議鬆綁我國所需專業人才及投資人士申請永久居留資格要件、加強延攬國際專業人才等等。



江部長並轉述，與會人員一致認為推行人口政策需要一個響亮的口號，內政部已決定砸下重金，向社會各界徵求一個「聽了想生小孩」的口號，至於具體徵求規則，將於近期內召開記者會對外說明。

My entry is: _____________________.