William M. Hartnett

And I do mean dollar. As in one. As in one dollar. As in the one dollar per week I’m hoping to make from the addition of a bit of Google Adsense to the site. I know, I know. I too have always thought it was a little cheesy to put advertising, however well targeted [...]

Curmudgeonly resistance goes beyond the newsroom - Readership Institute
“While there is no denying pockets of curmudgeons remain in newsrooms, perhaps it’s time to shine a light on the need for swift change in other departments, as well.” Start with the biz-side whiz who once told me “long-term thinking is a luxury.”
(tags: newspapers readership-institute)

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Newspapers should have launched Google’s ‘Knol’ - Lucas Grindley’s blog
“Google’s new ‘how to’ site, called Knol, is something I’ve pitched to newspapers for the last four months during my job search. Now I’m sharing the plan with everyone.”
(tags: google newspapers knol)

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As ever, I’m only pretty sure that what I have here is the correct view of The Spokesman-Review’s main office and printing plant in Spokane, Washington, as seen in Virtual Earth/Live Maps. Maybe Ryan Pitts or Colin Mulvany is out there and can correct me if I’m wrong.

And in Street View:
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2009 Nissan GT-R: The Arrival of the Fittest - NYTimes.com
“This is the GT-R’s mission: Annihilate nearly every other car on the market at the racetrack while providing seating for four and ample storage space. Somewhat amazingly, it succeeds.”
(tags: auto gt-r nissan nyt)

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The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about Country Club Acres in Delray Beach.
DOWNLOAD THE PRINT SECTION
Print pages in PDF: Right-click and save-as to download (7.9 MB, 6 pages)

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The Road Ahead for Ford Is Full of Smaller Cars - NYTimes.com
Ford is another company in transition that, for my money, will be more interesting to watch than GM. See: Alan Mulally’s decades-long interest in the Toyota Production System while at Boeing.

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Toyota Ahead of G.M. in Auto Sales - NYTimes.com
Why newspapers definitely should NOT, as Scott Karp advocated, draw lessons on “do or die innovation” from GM. The far better lessons are to be learned from Toyota, the company standing on GM’s neck, and its bottom-to-top culture of innovation.
(tags: toyota gm nyt auto)

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A massively overlooked milestone here at Hartnett HQ: The Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros lyrics post turned 1 last Sunday. That stupid thing attracted 13,147 page views in its first year, 24.8 percent of all traffic across the entire site during the same period. Slightly more than 94 percent of visits to the post arrived via Google. [...]