
A couple of interesting tidbits come out of Daniel Lyons' Newsweek piece on Arianna Huffington. Most interesting is the fact that for all Huffington's supposed digital age savvy, her HuffingtonPost site is having the same problem every other news website is having - namely, figuring out how to monetize content (in plain English,...

When you ask Dan Rohn, founder of JournalismJobs.com, how his job listings website is doing these days, he summons an automotive analogy.
At its peak, in the mid 2000s, he says, it was like a Rolls Royce, it was so busy. Then around 2008 it dropped down to a Lexus. These days it's back up to a Mercedes - "a very nice Mercedes," he adds.
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There has been a tragic fire in a rowhous on
Elgin Avenue in Centerville.
The fire broke out about 11:15 last night in the bottom floor of the rowhouse. It quickly spread to the second floor where three people were sleeping.
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I was just thinking to myself, "why has no one ever made a movie about Stax?" Then I learned that apparently someone has - Respect Yourself: The Stax Story - so the only question is, why was I not informed? I guess I know what I am doing this weekend. In any case, the story of Stax is one of those music industry stories that is just begging to be told. Shady deals, foreclosures, Wattstax, Otis Redding, Green Onions - Stax's story is one of big highs, big lows and some of the most influential music around - there are both lessons and inspiration to be found here. Learn...