Andrew Golis

• Media: Bloomberg sale spells profitable future of journalism by numbers
  Damn, I guess good to see someone’s making money.
  (tags: bloomberg new.media valleywag msm finance)
• GOP Asks Net For Advice, Paulites Answer the Call … and Answer, and Answer | Threat Level from Wired.com
  Ha. The Paul folks are gonna be a pain in the GOP digital side for a long time.
  (tags: ron.paul new.media new.politics gop wired)

• Is Obama Investing Massively in Field Organizing? | The Next Right
  Why yes, it seems he is!
  (tags: organizing obama next.right new.politics)

• Hipsters in Space // Current
  V. funny.
  (tags: hipsters funny current video)
• Morning in America – Where else could a red-meat, right-wing congressman like Joe Scarborough reinvent himself as the liberal’s favorite talk-show host?
  Interesting piece.
  (tags: morning.joe nymag msnbc television msm)
• The Real Banksy? – The Plank
  The unmasking of a guerilla artist.
  (tags: new.yorker art banksy)

Update: H/T to Matt Cordell, who originally came up with the Monty/Churchill concept. Also, thanks for reading the site Matt.  You’ve doubled my traffic.

You decide.

This will be my last dog post.  Back to work and back to very serious/important new media blogging.

• Poynter Online – Romenesko
  “Why aren’t they much worse, when the imminent demise of newspapers seems to be all we ever hear about? The short answer is that reading customers aren’t deserting newspapers at anything approaching the rate that advertising customers are.”
  (tags: newspaper finance new.media msm romenesko advertising metrics)
• Guardian Media Group Buys paidContent for $30 Million | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD
  I love PaidContent and the Guardian, so this is a welcome move.
  (tags: paid.content guardian new.media finance)

Check out that farmer’s tan!

I’m finally getting in the swing of this vacation thing.  Book, dog, girlfriend blogging under the umbrella on the back deck.  Life is good.

• The State of the Web – Summer 2008
  Funny
  (tags: art blogging funny)

• WPer: Merging our print, online newsrooms is a good idea – Poynter Online – Romenesko
  Apparently WaPo thinks this whole internet thing might be a big deal. Who knew?
  (tags: new.media romenesko msm newspaper wapo)
• Cooper: MSM, New Media are in a marriage of convenience – Poynter Online – Romenesko
  EVERYONE RELIES ON EVERYONE ONLINE! THAT’S THE POINT!
  (tags: new.media hyperlinks latimes blogging newspaper)
• Recommended Flaw: 31% of Digg Homepage submitted by 10 Users | popFAIL
  Huh.
  (tags: digg statistics web2.0)
• Is nonprofit newsroom’s shaky start an omen? – 07/07/2008 – MiamiHerald.com
  Argues that Pro Publica isn’t the right model cause there’s no shortage of national investigative reporting, but state and local reporting on bad school, corrupt judges and the like as regional papers are gutted.
  (tags: pro.publica journalism new.media newspaper miami.herald)

Monty declares victory on the green in Oak Bluffs before going to the beach to learn to swim.