With all due respect: No. Bringing in someone from outside the newspaper business is a bad idea. Bringing in someone forward thinking from within the industry is a much better idea. If only there was such a person.
Nine American Eagle regional jets were grounded at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Tuesday, because mechanics found damage caused by a TSA inspector that might have caused flight problems.
What's most interesting about this chart is the accompanying story, which talks about a U.S. government policy started in 2005 where the government was no longer going to report how much money they were printing (M3 measurements). Which means we can't see what the government is doing as far as money creation goes. And the value of the U.S. dollar is almost half what it was in 2000.
“I’m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so. ... She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that’s directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us. What she taught me is that the deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain—it’s that the pain is actually a gift. What’s the option? God doesn’t really give you another choice.”
After over a decade of user testing, it is clear that the way we search the web is similar to the way we would search our home for valuables as it was burning to the ground. Frantically.
“We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from shareholder value ... The shift necessitates a fundamental change in our prevailing theory of the firm… The current theory holds that the singular goal of the corporation should be shareholder value maximization. Instead, companies should place customers at the center of the firm and focus on delighting them, while earning an acceptable return for shareholders.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)