• Could tighter copyright laws help save newspapers? The contrast between the business models for aggregators and originators is dramatic: Newspaper publishers need the same number of journalists to produce one newspaper or 400,000. Advertising revenue depends on producing and circulating 400,000 newspapers. While advertising has declined, production costs have not. Meanwhile, parasitic aggregators reprint or rewrite newspaper stories, making the originator redundant and drawing ad revenue away from newspapers at rates the publishers can't match. The inevitable consequence: diminished revenue and staff cuts. "It's unfair competition with unjust enrichment."
• When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week. Link.
• MythBuster Adam Savage Leads Twitter Revolt Against AT&T. Link.
• I wholly endorse this idea...well, except for my employees.
• Your tax dollars at work.
• Oh, and a little something to make your head hurt.
• A comic book artist who wrote a script about a a guy who gets wrongfully harassed by the government for writing fiction about terror attacks that came true...gets detained at an airport. Ironic, huh?
• Our question of the week on the Tribune site is getting pretty one-sided.
• A funny list of one-liners from Hollywood Squares. Link.
• You can thank Jim for coming up with our new teaser idea.
• I'll be announcing another change to The Tribune later this week.
• That handsome fellow at the top is the winner of 2009's ugliest dog award. Seriously.
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