More on the changing advertising landscape

Posted on March 11, 2005 by Jim Zellmer

Several recent articles on the changing advertising landscape (struggling to keep up with our changing habits):

Newspaper quality & quantity circulation continue to decline. More here.
Terry Heaton on what happens when consumers reject advertising.

More on the Bad Bankruptcy Bill that Kohl voted for

Posted on March 11, 2005 by Jim Zellmer

Joshua Trevino calls the bankruptcy bill a “breach of faith,” and observes, “When it passes — and it will — it will be thanks purely to the Republican Party.” via instapundit. More here: red states have it worse under the bill, interestingly enough…. Interesting Republican payback. I still don’t understand Kohl’s support for this…

Malcolm Gladwell at the UW on Blink

Posted on March 11, 2005 by Jim Zellmer

New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and more recently, Blink, spoke a the UW Wednesday evening. Here’s an excerpt of his talk [Quicktime video | mp3] This was an interesting evening.

Kohl’s Odd Vote for the Flawed Bankruptcy Bill

Posted on March 10, 2005 by Jim Zellmer

Senator Kohl cast an odd vote for the flawed bankruptcy bill (getting it out of committee. He’s evidently, according to a staff person, pulling a “kerry”: voting for it, before voting against the final bill). Why would Kohl, “Nobody’s Senator But Your’s” cozy up to the credit card companies? I hope he has a strong opponent in the next election….

The folks at www.downsizedc.org are right on….

Choicepoint files found riddled with errors

Posted on March 10, 2005 by Jim Zellmer

Bob Sullivan:

Pierce said she felt an uneasy twinge in her stomach as she began to flip the pages. A dozen former addresses were listed, along with neighbors and their phone numbers. Almost 20 people were listed as relatives — and their neighbors were listed, too. There were cars she supposedly owned, businesses she supposedly worked for.
But the more closely she looked, the more alarmed she became: The report was littered with mistakes.
ChoicePoint, the now embattled database giant, aggregates data from hundreds of sources on millions of Americans. The reports are then sold to thousands of companies and government agencies that want to know more about their clients, customers, or employees.