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Jim Prosser, Twitter’s head of corporate, revenue, and policy communications, is leaving the company. He’s headed over to SoFi to run communications and policy, he said on Twitter. |
It’s noteworthy that three of Twitter’s top communications executives have left in the past month. The highest profile departure in the past few weeks was longtime Apple veteran PR executive Natalie Kerris. Kerris joined the company in February in the middle of a critical time for the company, which basically had to pr... |
But, these kinds of moves are pretty common. Prosser was at the company for four years (and, while there, was fantastic to work with). SoFi is also a quick-rising startup, which my colleague Katie Roof and I figured was probably well on its way to going public — though, that was before The Reckoning in tech happened an... |
Twitter CMO Leslie Bernard is taking over the duties of leading communications for now. That’s going to be tough. Twitter is a very hard story to tell right now. Its last quarter didn’t go very well, sending shares diving 10 percent. It’s barely growing, if that, and is dealing with a host of issues like online abuse a... |
Momentum is building for online music companies that are looking to tap into ad-based Internet music downloads. |
Here's a new way to download hit singles over the Internet without paying a dime: give up a corner of your computer screen to advertising. |
Dataquest analyst Sujata Ramnarayan says free content is more attractive than any payment plan, so demand for advertising-supported music will increase faster than demand for subscription services. |
scrambling to find profits in the swelling online music trade. |
"Consumers are generally pretty wary of limits on the use of content once they have it in their hands," Jupiter Communications analyst Aram Sinnreich said. "But this is definitely worth a try as far as the (intellectual property rights holders) are concerned because they have to find a way to make money on digital dist... |
EverAd, a start-up founded in Israel two years ago on the strength of technology for delivering banner ads along with downloads, is going after this market. The company is slowly gathering momentum, signing up about a dozen Internet music sites to distribute its content, along with 60 independent record labels and abou... |
Today, online music site Listen.com joined EverAd's partnership list as it searches for potential revenue streams, giving EverAd a broad new platform for its proprietary PlayJ format. |
Although advertising may appear to be a long shot for music downloads, Web companies are ready to try almost any experiment to squeeze cash out of online music, which has not sold well. When Hewlett-Packard agreed to pay online music retailer EMusic $3 million in a cross-marketing deal, the sum exceeded the aggregate s... |
Many analysts believe that subscription services, in which record labels give unlimited access to content for a set rate, offer the best hope for a sustainable business model for music on the Internet. For example, Sony Music Entertainment and Seagram's Universal Music Group in May unveiled plans to launch a joint subs... |
In the meantime, music Web sites and record labels aren't ready to write off other strategies. |
"I think long term, the bargain of free music supported by advertising is one that consumers will accept," said Brian Gonick, EverAd vice president of business development. "Subscriptions will be a component, but ultimately it will be about giving consumers a choice. They will be able to decide whether they want to pay... |
EverAd's encryption technology places restrictions on the use of downloaded music files so they can be played only by accepting a feed of banner advertisements. The company's PlayJ technology places a security envelope around popular compression formats such as MP3. |
The ads shut off with the music and do not run when other formats are played. |
The company offers a free plug-in that works with Microsoft's Windows Media player and America Online subsidiary Nullsoft's Winamp player. Gonick said a plug-in for RealNetworks' RealPlayer will be available in the future. |
EverAd collects consumer data, although Gonick said the company does not create identifiable profiles of individuals. |
A privately held company with headquarters in New York City, EverAd received a $22 million investment in February, Gonick said. "Nobody is doing what we're doing," he said. |
While Gonick said the company's digital rights management format is unique, Jupiter's Sinnreich downplayed the company's technology advantage. |
"The technology is trivial," he said. "The hard part comes with the consumer." |
North Carolina, a “basketball school,” beat FSU in football in Tallahassee. |
Indiana, a “basketball school,” beat No. 17 Michigan State in football in overtime. |
There are many reasons University of Kentucky football has not often succeeded at the level its fans desire. Of those, UK’s prominence in men’s hoops is one of the least telling. |
How else do you explain that a “basketball school” such as Louisville has gone 44-13 since 2012 in football? |
Or that U of L, led in 2016 by transcendent quarterback Lamar Jackson, has arguably been the “buzziest” football program in the land this season? |
“Basketball school” UCLA is 40-18 in football since 2012. |
“Basketball school” North Carolina is 36-21 since 2012 in football. |
Duke, the pre-eminent college basketball program in the country during Mike Krzyzewski’s coaching reign, is 35-23 since 2012 in football under the resourceful David Cutcliffe. |
Heck, “basketball school” Indiana — long a pigskin laggard — is now 9-8 in its past 17 football games. |
Those seeking to explain Kentucky’s 16-37 record in football since 2012 need to look farther than Rupp Arena. |
Now, rival football coaches have long used UK’s reputation as a “basketball school” against Wildcats football recruiters. They have done that for eons. |
Back when the original Joe B. Hall Wildcat Lodge basketball dorm was new, it was said that then-Tennessee football coach Johnny Majors would instruct prospects UT was wooing who were about to visit UK to make a point of comparing where Wildcats football players lived (a “regular” dormitory or in off-campus housing) to ... |
In 2013, before Kentucky hosted Alabama in Commonwealth Stadium, a Crimson Tide assistant coach caught the eye of then-John Hardin High School defensive lineman Matt Elam — who was on the field during pregame warmups while on an “unofficial” recruiting visit. |
At the time, Elam was the subject of an intense recruiting battle between Bama and UK. |
Once the Alabama coach had Elam’s attention, he pointed at the mostly empty stands (a late-arriving crowd eventually filled the pre-renovation Commonwealth with 69,873). |
Then, raising his arm, the Tide assistant mimicked the motion of shooting a basketball. |
However, those kind of recruiting tactics can be overcome. UK did sign Elam, after all. |
In his spiel on Kentucky basketball overshadowing UK football, CBS’s Danielson cited hearing a caller to a Lexington postgame radio call-in show ask a hoops question immediately after the football Cats had upset No. 1 LSU in triple overtime in 2007. |
Fact is, there are plenty of football questions on UK basketball postgame radio call-in shows, too, especially around football’s national signing day on the first week in February. |
Yet, somehow, that pigskin interest doesn’t seem to penetrate national perceptions of UK sports fans. |
Kentucky backers relish the success that the winningest men’s college hoops program of all time has produced and yearn to be associated with it. |
The difference in victory frequency explains the varying levels of fan passion associated with UK football and men’s basketball. |
If the pigskin Wildcats ever gave Kentucky fans a sustained stretch of gridiron glory, the fan reaction would match the basketball hoopla, maybe even exceed it due to the pent-up demand created by decades of football frustration. |
Kentucky’s historic struggles in SEC football — no winning league record since 1977; only seven winning conference marks since 1933 — owe primarily to the fact that UK does not have an in-state recruiting base sufficient to ensure long-term success in the league in which it plays. |
Needing, therefore, to go out of state to lure the level of talent it takes to win in the Southeastern Conference, Kentucky has not been able to do so because it doesn’t win consistently enough. |
As cycles go, it’s a vicious one. |
Yet that hard reality, not UK’s basketball success, is the main reason Kentucky football has lagged. |
They don't like that it's revenue neutral. |
Dr. Yoram Bauman, who is leading the effort to pass a carbon tax ballot initiative in Washington state, is nobody’s idea of a conservative, and his ballot initiative is hardly conservative, either. It will raise an estimated $1.7 billion annually in carbon taxes, eventually (after a slow build over many years) generati... |
“This would certainly be one of the most aggressive — if not the most aggressive — carbon taxes that we have on the books globally,” MIT professor and carbon tax expert Christopher Knittel told the Seattle Times. According to Bauman, the initiative could raise gas prices immediately by 25 cents a gallon rising to $1 pe... |
So imagine Bauman’s surprise that his initiative, with its approach that has long been endorsed by economists as the most cost-effective way to reduce carbon emissions, was opposed by the state Democratic party and virtually all of the state’s leading environmental groups. The reason for their opposition points at the ... |
Bauman (whom, in full disclosure, I have known personally and professionally for almost two decades) has earned environmentalist and Democratic-party ire by committing the grave sin of making his tax swap “revenue neutral.” Revenues gained from the carbon tax would be offset with a one-cent reduction in the state sales... |
There is a lively debate among conservative economists about the possibility of carbon tax swaps — some are open to them and some hate them — but it’s not a pie-in-the-sky prospect or an inherently radical left-wing scam. In fact, Bauman has won the support of several Washington State GOP legislators for his proposal. ... |
None of this is surprising to me. In my academic research, I focus primarily on energy issues. In the most recent issue of the peer-reviewed journal Energy Policy, along with my Hoover colleague David Fedor, I published an empirical analysis on all of the carbon-pricing regimes worldwide. |
In our research we find a clear, though not uniform, relationship between the ideology of the government enacting a carbon tax and the percentage of revenues recycled (i.e. refunded to the taxpayer through other tax cuts) and/or used in general funds. We show that conservative governments are far more likely to return ... |
In other words, rather than using price signals and market forces sort out the best way to make reductions, they demand that we grow government while making payoffs to labor unions and minority politicians (who would otherwise generally have this issue low on their priority list). |
For power players on the environmental left, virtue-signaling, Republican-bashing, and state control are ultimately more important than emissions reductions. |
As one Washington progressive put it, “Revenue neutrality is one of the last things this state needs.” So much for bipartisanship. The real deal the Left offers the right on carbon is to trade something that conservatives generally don’t like (a carbon tax) and add to it something else conservatives don’t like (green c... |
Mankiw is correct of course, but “build[ing] a political consensus to tackle climate change” is not the primary goal of the most politically powerful forces in the climate movement. There are, of course, genuine “climate idealists” in the movement such as Bauman and many other groups and individuals that have broken wi... |
#related#Bauman is seeing what those of us on the right have long observed. If the only way to express concern about the environment and potential climate risk is to grow the government and empower the Left, conservatives will quite sensibly reject this approach. Too many liberals are dishonest about the left-wing poli... |
A warm front will bring a taste of summer back to CNY. |
I hope you're enjoying fall so far. It's been very warm here in Central New York. Another round of warm weather is expected Tuesday and Wednesday as a warm front moves through. A few breaks of sunshine are expected over these days too, allowing for temperatures to climb into the 70s during the day with overnight lows i... |
A cold front brings heavy rain to the region on Thursday, followed by a big drop in temperature for Friday and into the weekend. |
South Charlotte residents, and high school sweethearts, Glenda Parrish, 56, and her husband Preston, 56, are still coping with the trials of losing their child at age of 25 in early 2006. Only a day after burying Preston's father, they received the phone call that their son Nathan had passed away during a rock climbing... |
"Part of the struggle of walking through grief is not only the fear or anger you have, or the questions you have, but it's also that so few people seem to get what you are going through," said Preston. |
Everyone accepts grief differently and manages it in their own way. No matter if it's your first holiday without a loved one or your 10th, loneliness, pain or sorrow can overcome the joyous time. |
Understanding that there is always hope and that you are not alone is the first step in coping through the holidays, making this time of year special but in a different way than it was before. |
"For the first Christmas, actually for the first three Christmases, we didn't do anything the same as before Nathan's death," said Glenda as they celebrated with their other children, Hannah, 36, Gregory, 32, and JesseRuth, 17. "What you knew is not going to be able to be replicated. |
"Be patient with yourself and do what is best for you because everyone is going to have an idea of what is best for you but it's your walk, and you must be free to walk it," said Glenda. |
In the fall 2009, Preston was approached by his publishing company, having written in the past, to see if he was working on anything. Folks continuously asked Preston if he would be writing about Nathan and the years following, and it was with Glenda that "Finding Hope in Times of Grief was developed." |
Published in March 2011, their book gives hope to the process of grieving. |
From a passage in their book, Glenda details the shock of finding Nathan's Christmas stocking several years later while decorating the Christmas tree. |
"In talking with many others who have lost children and in hearing how things have gone in their lives afterward, I have accepted that these moments will probably happen for the rest of my life," she said. |
"Of course, everyone is different, and you will figure out what is best for you. Be affirmed, though, that it isn't dishonoring to approach the seasons a little differently than before. Just do what seems most helpful for you - even if others may not understand." |
The Parrishes refer to the past six years as a "walking journey." Their book reflects their personal experience, their faith in God and is filled with encouragement for others. |
"Finding Hope in Times of Grief" is sold on Amazon.com or locally at the Billy Graham Library. |
In addition to the company’s commitment to satisfying guests, Sterling Hospitality (the parent company of Marlow’s Tavern and Sterling Spoon Culinary Management) has been committed to community service since the opening of its first restaurant in 1997. Sterling’s partnership with Special Olympics Georgia (SOGA) has hel... |
An outcry from the police and the public is ringing in lawmakers’ ears: do something about this deadly outbreak of juvenile car thefts and reckless driving in Connecticut. |
The crisis continued with the death of an innocent driver in Hartford on Saturday, on the heels of the death last month in Durham of the 17-year-old passenger of a stolen Mercedes that crashed at high speed and flipped. |
The judiciary and public-safety committees have responded with four bills that make it easier to detain juveniles who steal cars and have a serious record, or to transfer them to adult court. |
One of them, sponsored by Sen. Len Fasano, a Republican of North Haven, may have the best chance of passage in June. |
Christine Rapillo, the state’s chief public defender, said the bill has something for both the police and child advocates. The bill more narrowly targets a group of repeat offenders and it gives judges guidance in determining whether to detain these young car thieves before trial as risks to public safety. |
Police officials have told lawmakers that judges need to have more latitude in detaining repeat offenders, while advocates question the value of detention without treatment. |
Fasano’s bill also requires the young offenders to be evaluated for behavioral-health treatment and allows for the postponement of the case for up to one year while the juvenile, under supervision by probation officer, pursues that treatment. The judge could dismiss the charges if the teen successfully completes the pr... |
Saturday, 44-year-old Jose Mendoza of Hartford was killed when his SUV was rammed by a stolen car with juveniles inside. |
At least four people were in a silver four-door Chrysler, stolen from East Haddam, that slammed into Mendoza’s SUV at Broad and Grand streets about 12:45 p.m., police said. The impact sent the SUV into a parking lot, where it smashed into a parked car. |
Rescue crews worked for more than 15 minutes to help Mendoza, who was trapped in the SUV. Firefighters freed him and performed CPR before an ambulance took him to Hartford Hospital. Police announced later that he had died. |
The Chrysler, along with a another vehicle stolen from Bristol, had encountered troopers on Route 2 on March 31. The cars raced away. The car stolen from Bristol was stopped, and its 15-year-old driver arrested, but the Chrysler -- which had left the highway and sped around Glastonbury – slipped away, only to resurface... |
How far should the state go in overhauling juvenile court when all other juvenile crime continues to decline? In fact, there’s a proposal in one of the bills that would prohibit kids under 18 from being held in adult jails by July 1, 2021. That flows from an investigation by Child Advocate Sarah Eagan into substandard ... |
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