January 2008
40 posts
Bill Clinton: 'Slow Down Economy' to Fight Global... →
Bill Clinton, who we just learned will be visiting three Arkansas cities on behalf of his wife’s campaign soon,
Instapaper: Bookmarking Evolved →
Instapaper is a new Web bookmarking service from the folks who helped bring you Tumblr, the scaled-back blogging platform….
The Hillary We Know in the Chicago Tribune →
Some Arkansas political stars turn up in this Chicago Tribune piece looking at the Democratic prim…
Ladies Heart Huckabee →
News and notes on Mike Huckabee in the wake of last night’s Republican debate at the Reagan Library: Huckabee gets love from the …
Clinton's Wal-Mart Past Examined →
ABC News takes apart Hillary Clinton on her six years on the board of Wal-Mart Stores: In six years as a me…
How to Pay for Those Big-ticket Items →
Ready for a new car? A new house? Got a baby on the way? Digerati Life has tips …
Fix Your PC Posture →
Lifehacker today links to advice on how to sit at your PC. For the millions of us who are chained to our desks most of the day, p…
Investor Calls for Hard U.S. Recession →
Fortune magazine talks to commodities investor Jim Rogers, who’s been calling for a recession for months, and now says the coming economic downturn is going to be bad. “Conce…
Syntroleum Shares Up on Buy Rating →
Syntroleum, Tyson Foods’ partner in creating synthetic fuels from animal fats, has seen its shares rise 66 percent due on a “buy” rating from a key broker: Merriman ana…
How to Return from Vacation →
It ain’t easy, is it? Coming back to the office after a good, long, relaxing vacation. It’s a shock to the system that almost makes you second-guess even leaving the office in the first place. All …
Clinton Third in Battle for Campaign Coverage →
Bill Clinton’s not running for president, but for the week of Jan. 21-27, he was ranked third among newsmakers in that race, according to a study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. That means Clinton got more media exposure than John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, John Edwards and Mike Huckabee.
Clinton’s wife Hillary was second. Her rival for the Democratic nomination, Barack...
Small Business and the Blog →
Should small businesses blog? There are certainly upsides — obtaining news business, staying in touch with clients, positioning yourself as an expert on a certain field — but there’s also the dow…
10 Ways to (Cheaply) Improve the Home Office →
Many of you are lucky enough to work from home and know how important it is to have a solid home office setup that encourages productivity. The Business Opportunity blog shares 10 ways to che…
How the Economic Stimulus Plan Affects Small... →
Congress’ economic stimulus plan is now working its way through the Senate. But how will that plan affect small businesses? Entrepreneur Daily thinks it over
Make Presentations Like Steve Jobs →
Whether you’re a Machead or not, you gotta admire Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ presentation skills. Now BusinessWeek pa…
Wal-Mart Shutters 2 Divisions in Bentonville in... →
The New York Times today notes t…
Barington Takes on Dillard's -- Again →
You might have read that the Barington Capital folks, who we’ve written about before, struck again on Tuesday, once again firing off a letter to Dillar…
Target: We Don't Talk to Bloggers →
Here’s an interesting approach to dealing with bloggers: Don’t deal with them! It’s an approach that Target is trying,
Hillary in Arkansas on Wednesday →
Hillary Clinton is due in Arkansas tomorrow at a campaign event at North Little Rock High School’s West campus. The event begins at 10:30 a.m. You can see event details and a map
Arkansas Business on THV This Morning →
Better set my alarm.
Starting Feb. 4, Arkansas Business will be doing a segment each weekday on KTHV’s “THV This Morning” show. Our daily business news forecast will air at about 6:40 a.m. As it stands now, I’ll appear on Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays, and Arkansas Business Publisher Jeff Hankins will appear Tuesdays and Thursdays. Of course, we’ll cover for each other if one of us can’t make...
What To Do When Your Buddy Becomes Your Boss →
Got a friend at work who just got promoted to be your boss? The Huffington Post has advice:
Got What It Takes to Lead? →
Tony Hawk, not the professional skater, but the former director of business development for the Soderquist Center for Leadership & Ethics (he gets that all the time…
Tips: Get Better at Selling →
Our partners to the northwest, the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal, have a great focus this week on sales. Among the articles are some great tips on improving how to improve yourself in that ar…
Simple Steps for Beginning Investors →
Looking to invest in the stock market? The Simple Dollar has some advice for you, just make sure you’ve got all that debt under control first.
Forbes: Little Rock 15th Best City for Jobs →
All those new industry announcements last year paid off. According to Forbes magazine, Little R…
Scientology Writes; Gawker Rises - New York Times →
Scientology has been good to Gawker.com. It’s post of Tom Cruise now infamous Scientology video has been traffic bait like nobody’s business. According to the New York Times:
But according to the Internet tracker Site Meter, unique visitors to the six-year-old site more than doubled, to more than 13.6 million so far this month, from 6.7 million last January, because of popularity of the posts...
New Video At ArkansasSports360.com →
I’ve just posted three new videos to ArkansasSports360.com. I’d embed them here if Wordpress supported Brightcove embeds.
Anyway you can see them here. We’ve got video of Ray Tucker talking about expansion at the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame and Jim Harris’ two-part interview with Kentucky Derby winner Calvin Borel, one of the top jockeys appearing at Oaklawn this year.
Covering the Horse Race →
Seriously, Jack Shafer isn’t the only person I read.
But his piece in Slate today is on a subject I’ve been thinking about lately as we wind our way toward the Democratic and Republican national conventions. Today, Shafer notes hand-wringing among journalists who worry that the media is too focused on the horse race aspect of the race for the presidency, and doesn’t focus enough on the issues...
WSJ: Won’t Be As Free As We Thought →
Not long after his purchase of the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, Rupert Murdoch hinted that he’d open up the entire WSJ.com for free access. The majority of the site has been completely locked down to subscribers who pay a $99 subscription fee. But as other online newspaper subscription plans fail (notably the New York Times’ TimesSelect), most suspected Murdoch would open WSJ.com...
John Brummett on ‘Unconventional Wisdom’ →
David Sanders, an Arkansas News Bureau columnist, “Arkansas Week” panelist and host of AETN’s “Unconventional Wisdom,” says John Brummett will join him on tonight’s show:
Stephens Media columnist John Brummett will be my guest tonight on Unconventional Wisdom. We’ll talk about the Democratic and Republican presidential contests and why Arkansas Republicans aren’t interested in challenging Sen....
The Best Companies to Work For →
Fortune is out with its list of the best companies to work for. You can see the list here. Of course, many companies on the list have a presence in Arkansas.
First Time Real Estate Investors, Take Note →
The Digerati Life has some tips for first-time real estate investors he…
10 Unusual Jobs →
You didn’t know you wanted jobs like these, did you. But here they are, a list from Fast Company…
Does David Simon’s Sun Vendetta Deaden ‘The Wire’? →
Slate media writer Jack Shafer had a piece this week on how “The Wire” creator David Simon, a former Baltimore Sun reporter, apparently misses the boat on the state of the newspaper industry. At the heart of his argument: the decline of the Sun came not because newspapers — faced with the growing prominence of the Internet — weren’t sufficiently hungry, ambitious or worried about their future to...
Sports Lead of the Day →
Here comes rhetoric more drastically flip-flopped than a politician leaving chambers of corporate contributors profiting from hiring illegal immigrants then addressing a rally of folks in a froth about illegal immigration.
Wha?
Hog Calls: Petrino promises the running game still matters at UA [WholeHogSports]
Godin: What Every Good Marketer Knows →
From the Seth Godin blog, some nuggets on marketing. What every good marketer knows: Anticipated…
Why You Never Just Pay the Minimum Due on Credit... →
The Prosper Blog gives Blogging Away Debt blogger Tricia some bandwidth to show us
Be Smart About Technology for Your Business →
With all that changing technology out there at small businesses’ disposal, it would be easy to lose sight of your real mission amid a jungle of new tools that might not be right for you enterprise….
Worst. Transition. Ever. →
Forwarded to me by a copy editor friend, who calls this the worst transition ever:
Because of this combination of machismo and sensitivity, like a more handsome Russell Crowe, he was in demand. He just wasn’t sure that he wanted to be. “Heath,” a studio boss once told me, “needs to decide who he really wants to be.”
He won’t have to, now that he has been found dead in an Manhattan apartment,...
WatchMy buddy Jonathan. Har-har!