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Outsourcing Hits Tryon Street
As predicted here last week, the Uptown paper of record has followed the lead of other McClatchy outlets and announced layoffs and outsourcing of ad work. A whopping 25 of…
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McClatchy Outsourcing Creeps Closer
The N&O announced that it will outsource advertising work and eliminate as many as 16 jobs in the process. The story is not clear, but it seems that ad composition…
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Why do they hate us?
That’s a good question, regarding the negative view of America and its policies apparent in much of Europe and the rest of the world. But another good question is ?why…
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Right in his diagnoses
RIP John Bumgarner: It was only later, after retirement from his medical practice, that John Bumgarner talked freely about his war years and imprisonment. He wrote four books, among them…
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Lyrics, etc.
I knew a guy at Chapel Hill whose dad’s construction job took him all over the world — Third World. This guy would sometimes tag along to see some exotic…
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Genius at it again
Google’s got a new feature, almost as good as Google Earth. It’s called Google Trends, and it tracks how often a key search term is used to search. The search…
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Just Blame It on Capitalism
In the latest twist on why capitalism is a bad system, author and Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua has written a book based on a thesis with which reviewer…