Time waits on no man`

I find myself enjoying Time Magazine. Ain't that quaint. OK, so it isn't Wired. Or Monocle. Or any one of dozens of seriously hip magazines on the racks. But as a weekly read I always find something of value. If you can read the article about Rupert Murdoch (July 9 cover date - read the article online). It contains a number of insights and clues about media in the near future.

One phrase caught my eye: "He has always said that craving respectability is the beginning of the end for a journalist. "Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs,""Rang bells for me - I've noticed that many journalists get a little starstruck and imagine that having access to their subjects makes them a part of the inner circle. Before you know they're wearing pinstripes, stop reporting the hard news and start becoming 'commentators'.

The article discusses Murdoch's vast empire but I found the conversation about the future of the Internet in the mix quite telling - there is a certain ambivalence and pragmatic acceptance. If you publish on paper and ink or TV you have a dependence and will find it hard to quit. I hope.

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Addict-o-matic

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Johnny Bunko competiton

The Great Johnny Bunko Challenge from DHP on Vimeo . There's a young chap in Indiana, one Alec Quig , who has written to me about creating a career based on a polymathic degree, from which he has recently graduated. He's an interesting young man and his concerns about going forward in life are the anxieties we all face at crossroads in our lives when we are forced to make choices. Dan Pink's latest book The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need might help: "From a New York Times, BusinessWeek, and Washington Post bestselling author comes a first-of-its- kind career guide for a new generation of job seekers.There's never been a career guide like it.the fully illustrated story (ingeniously told in Manga form) of a young Everyman just out of college who lands his first job. Johnny Bunko is new to parachute company Boggs Corp., and he stumbles through his early days as a working stiff until a crisis prompts him to find a new job. St

Shoulders of giants

"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience." "Life is just one damned thing after another." (Both from Elbert Hubbard - look him up on the wikipedia . If it's wrong - change it)

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