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Hurricane Earl Projected to Hit Hampton Roads Friday at 120 MPH

Wow. Earl could be a good one. Details here from weather.com.

TV Reporter Broadcasts with Skype

No need for those expensive satellite feeds anymore, I’m guessing. When you have a story to report just whip out the laptop, throw in the air card from your favorite ISP, and pop open a Skype video connection back to the office / television station. I snapped this photograph real quick tonight with the BlackBerry while watching the 11:00 PM [...]

More Sad Newspaper News

I think a lot of you may already know that I read Mark Cuban’s Blog Maverick blog quite a bit. He’s in my ‘must read’ group in Google Reader of those that I make sure to catch everyday. Mark posted some thoughts today on the newspaper industry’s woes during today’s Internet movement. You can read [...]

More Bad News for the Newspaper Industry

“The Rocky Mountain News, gone. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, gone. Today the Ann Arbor (Michigan) News announced it would publish its last edition in July. Three other papers announced today they’re cutting back to three print editions a week. At least 120 newspapers have shut down since January 2008, according to Paper Cuts, a Web site [...]

AIG Executives get Bonuses and Quit

Geez! This just keeps getting worse. At what point in this disaster does anyone stand up for us little guys that pay taxes? From CNN: AIG execs got bonuses and left, official says AIG paid 73 employees bonuses of more than $1 million, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo told Congress in a letter today. [...]

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