Ramblings
Call For Citizen Proofreaders
A reader of the St Paul Pioneer Press asks online today, “Do newspapers do any proofreading anymore?” My answer to him: newspapers today rely on readers like you to do their proofreading for them. To that end it would do well for all readers everywhere to get copies of the Associated Press Stylebook — also [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )No Lovin’ Feeling In Duluth
On the Northern Front: An uncouth moment for Duluth. City is one of the five worst in the country for romance, according to social network Foursquare, reported by NorthlandsNewsCenter Lovelorn In Duluth. Makes no sense. Duluth is considered by some to be the San Francisco of the North Country, what with its hilly views of Lake [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Haste A-Pace
“Make haste slowly.” Said to be coined by Augustus, the Roman emperor who succeeded Julius Caesar. Excellent bumper sticker material (or something to stick on the side of a sedan chair, a favorite conveyance of the Roman well-to-do back in the day), and often quoted by poets, philosophers and other pundits living and dead. Excellent [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Is Financial Ruin The Cure?
…fear sells today. It always has – whip up some healthy paranoia and all that to get people’s attention. But this is getting to be out of all proportions.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )What’s In The Daily Newspaper? Does Anybody Know?
Not a good sign for newspapers – even public relations professionals iffy about reading the print copies.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Narrow Escape From The Shack
Customer service. We all hate it. (Not the service, the lack thereof.) So yesterday, Saturday, I’m prowling around a Radio Shack outlet. Just kind of browsing, indulging my inner geek a bit I guess. And I’m checking out the telephones on sale – I need a new business level phone, one that has the buttons [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )All the data fit to scan
Cisco says they’ve got a network piece that can copy all the searchable data on the internet in 7.5 seconds or something like that. How about that for a global brain scan? Seems like the CIA and NSA and FBI would be their first customers, along with of course the big telecoms. It staggers the mind [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Party Time 1929-style
Time to party like it’s 1929. Are we ready for depression-era fun? Remembrance of recessions past…what worked? I seem to recall one strategy that worked was to keep your head down and work like your life depended on it. Amazing how a little economic pain focuses the mind. The early 80s, one marketing allure was [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Who’s This? « Doug Hovelson Weblog
Who’s This? « Doug Hovelson Weblog
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Down With Risk; No Blood, No Late-Night Radio Foul
Posted on February 13, 2011. Filed under: Media Commentary, Public Relations, Ramblings | Tags: Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevski, Dow 36 000, DOW 36 000 : The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock Market, Howard Marks, investing, James K. Glassman, Jason Zweig, talk radio, Wall Street Journal |
http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://prstar.wordpress.com/?p=810 The Weekend Report: Writing in The Wall Street Journal Weekend, Jason Zweig has a rip roaring good time poking holes in the latest work of investment wisdom from James K. Glassman. It was Glassman who co-penned the notorious “Dow 36,000” book, published in 1999 or not long before the start of one of the most dismal [...]
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