Read the last paragraph and read up on other dead business models which are enjoying a stay of their funerals.

http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/07/13/morgan-stanley-intern-disses-twitter-shakes-up-industry/

Red- The AL used to have a food editor, and he was really good, and funny, Doug Chapman. He used to own a 4-star restaurant in Boston, but moved to SF to be closer to his elderly mother. He was right on with his reviews, but so many restaurants complained about him that the AL stopped using him (he was freelance). I wish I could find an archive of his columns. He wrote this one about a girl making his chocolate shake with a fork, and the way he wrote it, I just about pissed my pants laughing.

Or skip that intersection. It doesn’t bother me, but I know plenty of people who have altered their route just to avoid the camera. When you think about it, you can get almost anywhere via an alternate route.

In re the Argus Misleader: Increasingly irrelevant, a melange of tabloid celebrity gossip, gee-whiz local features (do they actually TRY to find the least flattering photos to put on the cover of the Life section?), and days-old “news.” Every time the invoice comes we ask each other whether we want to renew. One of these days the answer will be no.

As far as letters to the editor go, I do think they have their favorite contributors and topics. Anytime that I used to write a letter to the editor, if it was a few words beyond the 200 limit, it would be returned to me, but I see many letters that are obviously considerably longer than the 200 word limit.

“Some people just need to get the hell over it. I have the same amount of sympathy for those who ran that red light as I do for those who park in a no parking zone or in front of a expired meter… which is exactly none.”
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Blatantly running a red light is one thing. A thing I will NEVER be caught doing. On the other hand, manipulating the timing of controlled intersection lights is another. When the 2002 traffic study was complete our city’s controlled interesections were made MUCH more unsafe. When you live in a city where the “acceptable” speed limit on major arteries is 10 to 15 MPH faster than posted limits, lowering the yellow times by a half second only causes major indecisions and an influx of red light running.

Here in SF, and in many other areas that use red light cameras, the offense is civil in nature and not tied to a specific driver. Instead it is tied to the vehicle just like a parking ticket is.

Some people just need to get the hell over it. I have the same amount of sympathy for those who ran that red light as I do for those who park in a no parking zone or in front of a expired meter… which is exactly none.

Not so sure about that. But it is a SURE FACT the city manipulated the timing of city lights to usher in big brother at that corner. Why I. L. Weidemeyer and his lawyer have never approached it from that angle is a beyond me.

As to the layoffs, Beck can blame this on the economy all day long but that doesn’t make it true. Like it or not newspapers are a dying form of media. People aren’t willing to wait until the next morning to read their news these days – they want it within minutes.

Advertising revenues are down because companies know readership is down. Then the paper decides to cut content or raise prices to compensate and it results in even few readers which in turn results is companies spending fewer advertising dollars with them.

I don’t really think this is a content issue since the basic core of the AL hasn’t changed in decades. Oh sure they try to reinvent themselves from time to time by adding this feature or changing that feature – but the core remains, and the core is the problem.

Reducing the physical size of the paper or making the decision to reorganize the sections or replacing comic strip A with comic strip B or making the call to focus upon Sioux Falls rather than South Dakota is all fine and dandy but it isn’t enough to make it a long term viable product.