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I like this MediaPost article a lot. You have to register to read it, but man is it ever worth it.

Actually, I am just posting it so I can find it later when I am looking for it and remember I posted it on the blog.

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Question, Answer and a LOL

Question: why are we so upset by Michael Vick and his dog fighting “issue” yet seemingly indifferent to the bullfights happening Pamplona (et al.) each year? What’s the difference? Kind of a real question, but also kind of a rhetorical one. Deb suggests the issue is simply that dogs are pets and bulls are, well, bulls…

This video is the answer to the question: “What is Colin’s current favorite game.” That’s right… Who hasn’t played a good game of Fall Over in their day.

I had a good old-fashioned LOL when I read the take on Silicon Alley Insider take on the press release Dow Jones issued about some General Manager changes and my coming back to The Wall Street Journal Digital Network.

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Note to Self

Google is no longer a naughty word in the Hobokenite Ellsworth household.

Just sayin’…

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Yahoooooo!

As you may or may not already know Matt started his brand new job at Yahoo! this past week.

Of course this means that we expect you all to install the Yahoo! toolbar and use Yahoo! as your default search. Moving forward the “G” word is a naughty one in this family.

Thank you all for your attention to this matter!

And gratz Matt.

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Extra! Extra! Read All About It

Well, actually, that’s the question. How do you read your news? In the last week or so there have been some interesting pieces of news/opinion that have come out in the media world that prompt my curiosity.

One is an opinion piece from AdAge magazine envisioning a world in which Dow Jones folds the print version of The Wall Street Journal in favor of an online-only edition.

The second is an article from Mediapost announcing topline findings from a recent Pew Research Center for The People & The Press survey that basically states that the web is still a secondary medium for news.

One article seems to contradict the other—although, admittedly, the AdAge article doesn’t give a specific timeline of this imagined conversion to Online-only and the Pew Research study shows an unmistakeable flight to the web from “traditional media”…

In any event, back to the question: how do you get your news?

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Cat Stuck in a Tree?

Fireman Colin to the rescue!

Some colleagues at The Wall Street Journal financial ad sales group got Colin one of his very first toys after he was born. He loves it! We had taken some pictures of him with the fire truck around Christmas, but they are mostly a photographic exploration of mom and dad’s arms and how they vainly try to hide them as we took pictures of him on the truck holding him up. I guess they’re kind of funny in their own way, but these are so much better. Plus, his head is finally big enough to keep the hat from falling down over his face. I think Colin is all about “driving” these days, his current favorite toy is a musical little dashboard with steering wheel that sings (over and over… and over and OVER) “are you driving? are you driving? on-the-road? on-the-road?”

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Are YOU in Techno-Flux?

Although this article—which ran in the April 3rd issue of BrandWeek—is written about teenagers, I find that some of the trends it is talking about are apropos even to myself. Perhaps I’m just a media junkie by trade, but I’m curious who else is “down with the techno-flux”?!?! I’m certainly all about “brain-blur” and “dataddiction,” but I find I am not “chill-challenged” as much as time-challenged. My favorite saying of late is “what is it like to be bored?”

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Puerto Rico (!!!)

We just got back from a trip to Puerto Rico—where we stayed at El San Juan Hotel & Casino—for a Dow Jones Integrated Solutions/Dow Jones Online sales meeting. Since dad works at DJIS and mom works at DJO (when she’s back from maternity leave) and both were in attendance at the meeting, Colin tagged along. The meetings went very well, but we only took pictures of the “fun” stuff…

The main thing we did, of course, was go to the pool. Colin hadn’t ever been in a pool (or anywhere it was warm outside for that matter!), so it was quite an experience for him. I think he liked it, but mom and dad did push it a little by dunking him in the water as you can see in this video:

Mommy didn’t end up spending that much time in the water so it was mostly daddy and Colin. We had lots of fun—but it was too bad it wasn’t a heated pool. I think Colin got cold before he got sick of being in the water. Afterwards, we chilled out (heated up?) in a towel and then sat around contemplating what we thought of the whole experience. I don’t know why, but I just love that last picture of him.

Colin also got to meet some of the folks that mommy (Penny from London) and daddy (Andrea from NYC) work with. He was a huge hit at the sales meeting with everyone from the publisher of The Wall Street Journal to randoms at the resort commenting on his size (huge!), his smile (so cute!), his demeanor (happy!), etc…. We did decide that our theory about people who know daddy thinking he looks like me and people who know mommy thinking he looks like Deb is no longer valid. Now we just think people say whatever pops into their head, because we had people saying all kinds of things about who he looked like—besides, he just looks like a baby.

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