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Print is dead. Long Live Print.

July 28th, 2008 — Ajax, Blogging, Business, Community, Design, Marketing, Stranger than Fiction, Wordpress

the New York Times, panting to the finish line?

On Wednesday, New York Times Co. (NYT) reported disappointing second-quarter earnings, and on Thursday the stock continued in its steep descent.

At the end of trading it stood at 12.48, or virtually half the price it commanded one year ago.

Web 2-uh-oh.

This part of the story is unsurprising, given how the Street is slamming any newspaper stock.

What’s startling is something else: If you back out much of the rest of the company’s portfolio, you arrive at a surprisingly teeny valuation for the vaunted New York Times itself, despite all the respect the brand commands.

How Can The New York Times Be Worth So Little?

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Geeks Wanted

July 22nd, 2008 — Ajax, Blogging, Books, CMS, CSS, Community, Design, Fireworks, How-to, Humor, Marketing, Microsoft, Photoshop, Pimp that App, Politics, Programming, Ruby on Rails, Stranger than Fiction, Wordpress

Calling all geeks!

It’s time to band together and drop the funk.

Geek is the new hip, haven’t you heard?  Geek tattoos are chic.  Librarian glasses are sexy.   Weird is in.  And you can be, too.

geek chicOddly Zen is seeking collaborators and guest-bloggers for full-time, part-time, or one-off content contributions in the areas of:

  • Ajax (tips, tricks, tutorials, or opinion)
  • Apple
  • Blogging (the business, the practice, or general coverage)
  • Books (ebooks, free chapters, or book reviews)
  • Business
  • CMS (reviews, open-source projects, WordPress, etc.)
  • Community (open source, Ruby or Rails, social media, etc.)
  • CSS (tips, tricks, tutorials, or opinion)
  • Design (UI, HCI, UX, etc.)
  • Graphics (Photoshop or Fireworks tips, tricks, tutorials, or opinion)
  • Humor (geek is funny)
  • Linux
  • Marketing
  • Microsoft
  • Open source software
  • Pimp that App (case studies, tips, tricks, tutorials, or opinion)
  • Politics (active and apathetic)
  • Programming (mainly Ruby & Co. — possibly C#, Lisp, Erlang, etc.)
  • Stranger than Fiction (truth be told, geeky situations are weird and funny)
  • WordPress (development, customization, plug-ins, etc.)
  • Your Ideas (if it’s geek, or plain good, we’ll post it)

Increase your reach.  Enhance your image.  Be flagrantly geeky.

And get some link-backs all from the comfort of your cube.

Note:  Think of this as an open-source blog.  Contribution should make you feel good.  :-)

Also, I’m looking for someone (preferably one other person) to build a Rails application with.  It will be a gift to the community as well — and if it makes any cheese, we’ll donate it.

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