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The Wall Street Journal

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Revenue Bowl: Let's See What Kind of Cash Cow Football is At UW and WSU

    Just 1 percent of the total campus revenues collected at Washington's two largest universities are generated by its football teams, which puts them in the same company as a few other top gridiron programs, including California, Michigan and Maryland, according to the Wall Street Journal.

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Amazon Continues War on Libraries With Netflix-Esque Book-Borrowing Program

    ​Using weapons of mass convenience, Amazon.com is continuing its assault on the concept of physical libraries, now with a reported new program planned that would let users rent books digitally much as Netflix users rent films.

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    This Week in Starbucks Crime: The Patriotic Thief!

    ​Welcome back to another exciting installment of This Week in Starbucks Crime, in which we catalog the bad acts occurring at Starbucks' 16,000-odd worldwide locations over the past seven days, as well as the week's fallout from prior Starbucks-related misdeeds. The slowness of this news week ( ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    Potato Industry Pins Hopes on School Vegetable Bars

    ​The state's potato industry, now fighting proposed regulations to limit starchy vegetables in school lunches, is hoping to put hot vegetable bars in 10 Washington schools. The bars, modeled after salad bars, would feature an array of vegetables and legumes that students could use to top thei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    Today Reverb Recommends You Check Out MobileVids.org, and Consider the TV Industry's "Napster Moment"

    Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. has an interesting column in Sunday's Wall Street Journal in which he snickers at the notion that the cable industry is being innovative in their iPad apps and other recent developments. He wraps things up by paralleling the struggles film and TV are having with piracy with th ... More >>

  • News

    March 30, 2011

    Small Harvest

    Washington's medical-marijuana industry isn't as big as you think.

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Harry & David, Northwest Overpriced Fruit Basket Deliverery Company, Declares Bankruptcy

    ​Who would have thought that sending people pears and oranges for $3 apiece would become unpopular in a recession?

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Medical-Marijuana Market in Washington State Is Still Relatively Tiny, According to First-of-Its-Kind Report

    ​With dozens of medical-marijuana dispensaries proliferating all around town, authorizing doctors openly advertising their services, and a newly opened cannabis farmers market, it often seems as if the local medical-pot business is going gangbusters. But according to the first methodical analy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2011

    Even The Seattle Times Thinks Pot Should Be Legalized in Washington

    ​When even the closest thing Seattle has to a right-wing rag is calling for the end of marijuana prohibition, it's probably time to start listening.

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Kindle Is Top-Selling Product of All Time on Amazon

    ​Amazon sold 13.7 million items in one day on Nov. 29. About 9 million of those were Kindle 3's. That makes it the No. 1, all-time, super-best-selling thing on Amazon ever.

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Microsoft Adds Anti-Tracking Software to Explorer 9, Advertisers Cry: "But We Love Spying"

    ​Most folks would likely agree that companies' abilities to track every move you make online, then custom build an advertising strategy designed to flood your cerebral cortex with uncontrollable desires to buy stuff is a bad thing. It took a while to convince Microsoft of this, but it appears ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 1, 2010

    David Rohde & Kristen Mulvihill

    ​Most folks would likely agree that companies' abilities to track every move you make online, then custom build an advertising strategy designed to flood your cerebral cortex with uncontrollable desires to buy stuff is a bad thing. It took a while to convince Microsoft of this, but it appears ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    UW Employees Empty Trash, Dip into Student Fund, in Order to Get Around Budget Cuts

    ​Times are tough at the University of Washington, which like every public institution is hurting for funds. Employees are subject to an out-of-state travel freeze instituted by the state legislature. And the university has been scrimping even on bare necessities--like vacuuming the floors. So ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Zynga's Farmville and Other Facebook Apps Are Sharing Your Personal Info

    ​According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Facebook's most popular applications have been sharing user information with advertisers. How is this happening? Why is this happening? To answer those questions go here. If you're a web developer, that link should give you a helpful explanati ... More >>

  • News

    August 18, 2010

    The Wall Street Journal Can't Handle the Truth About I-1098

    ​According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Facebook's most popular applications have been sharing user information with advertisers. How is this happening? Why is this happening? To answer those questions go here. If you're a web developer, that link should give you a helpful explanati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Your Average Seattleite Is $1,500 Poorer Than Last Year

    ​Times are tough. Jobs are scarce. People are running each other over with tractors. Shit is, to put it lightly, getting real out there. The Wall Street Journal reports that personal income in Seattle fell by 3.2 percent last year, nearly double the national average and a loss in real dollars ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    I Have Officially Bowed to the Information Age

    Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what music is circulating through his space every Monday.​Last Christmas, my wife bought me a Kindle. To be honest, I had to sort of fake that I was stoked to get this present. As most of you probably know by now, I am an old ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    iPad Reviews Say Amazon's Kindle Soon to Be E-Relevant

    Steve's is prettier.​The greatest product in the history of anything comes out this Sunday. Before you buy an iPad, you can read what a bunch of lucky tech writers have to say after spending weeks toying around with it. Among their many conclusions: Apple's new e-everything is serious troubl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    SeaTimes Breaks the Top 20 Rankings

    ​The Seattle Times has lost about 26,000 of the subscribers it gained when the P-I print edition folded earlier this year, according to new figures released today. But it has nonetheless hung onto the majority of P-I faithful and is now the 20th largest daily newspaper in the U.S, 2nd larges ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    Flickr Pool Photo of the Day: Maybe They Shouldn't Have the Zune Logo up There

    ​ Note to Photo of the Day hopefuls: From now until Thanksgiving, we'll grant unwarranted favor towards any picture that features one of the following: foliage, foliage or foliage. For now though, here's the sign blocking view of Microsoft's first retail store in Scottsdale, AZ. A sign that wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    The Food Section: Local Foods in the Schools & Investment Portfolios

    ​Maybe it's just the fact that everyone in the country is coping with an overabundance of late-summer produce, but this week's food stories are almost all about local foods: In the New York Times, Kim Severson reports that the USDA's new "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" initiative (which th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    The Food Section: Fresh Fruit, Canning Across America, and Other Warm Fuzzy News

    Because Voracious has been feeling mighty cranky all week, this week's news roundup is devoted to stories that warm our hearts. First off, the Seattle Times has two interesting articles: Linda Mapes writes that while European honeybees, the species most used by farmers to pollinate, are still dy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    A Stronger FDA, a More Perfect Recipe, and Other Food News

    Starting off this week's food news digest with some very good news, the House of Representatives finally passed a bill that greatly strengthens the FDA's ability to regulate and enforce food safety laws. If the bill becomes law, the agency will be able to make farmers and food producers beef up thei ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 10, 2009

    Seth Kinmont

    Starting off this week's food news digest with some very good news, the House of Representatives finally passed a bill that greatly strengthens the FDA's ability to regulate and enforce food safety laws. If the bill becomes law, the agency will be able to make farmers and food producers beef up thei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2009

    Hearst to Charge for Content

    A memo by Hearst Newspapers president Steven Swartz says the corporation's newspapers, apparently including the P-I, plan to start charging readers for some online content. The company-wide memo has been floating around the Internet a few days. But it was the Friday Wall Street Journal blog that dr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2007

    Yachtspotting We Will Go

    A memo by Hearst Newspapers president Steven Swartz says the corporation's newspapers, apparently including the P-I, plan to start charging readers for some online content. The company-wide memo has been floating around the Internet a few days. But it was the Friday Wall Street Journal blog that dr ... More >>

  • Film

    August 22, 2007

    The Nanny Diaries: Scarlett Johansson Becomes the Che Guevara of the Upper East Side

    A memo by Hearst Newspapers president Steven Swartz says the corporation's newspapers, apparently including the P-I, plan to start charging readers for some online content. The company-wide memo has been floating around the Internet a few days. But it was the Friday Wall Street Journal blog that dr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2007

    Is Green the New Red, White and Blue?

    A memo by Hearst Newspapers president Steven Swartz says the corporation's newspapers, apparently including the P-I, plan to start charging readers for some online content. The company-wide memo has been floating around the Internet a few days. But it was the Friday Wall Street Journal blog that dr ... More >>

  • Film

    June 20, 2007

    Take Two: There Is an Embedded Thriller in a Mighty Heart

    A memo by Hearst Newspapers president Steven Swartz says the corporation's newspapers, apparently including the P-I, plan to start charging readers for some online content. The company-wide memo has been floating around the Internet a few days. But it was the Friday Wall Street Journal blog that dr ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 14, 2007

    Friday 2/16

    A memo by Hearst Newspapers president Steven Swartz says the corporation's newspapers, apparently including the P-I, plan to start charging readers for some online content. The company-wide memo has been floating around the Internet a few days. But it was the Friday Wall Street Journal blog that dr ... More >>

  • Arts

    June 28, 2006

    The Tank Rolls at SSO

    Symphony shakeup. Plus Wing Luke Asian Museum news and no love for Intiman.

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2006

    Monday Telegraph Room

    Symphony shakeup. Plus Wing Luke Asian Museum news and no love for Intiman.

  • News

    February 15, 2006

    NYT Finds Beacon Hill

    Also: The latest Sonics number-crunching.

  • News

    May 5, 2004

    Media, Boeing, and Quote

    Also: The latest Sonics number-crunching.

  • News

    May 5, 2004

    The Outsourcing Source

    For the latest rhetoric against sending tech jobs overseas, Seattle-based WashTech is a national journalist's first phone call.

  • News

    April 14, 2004

    Media

    For the latest rhetoric against sending tech jobs overseas, Seattle-based WashTech is a national journalist's first phone call.

  • Diversions

    September 10, 2003

    Down and Out

    For the latest rhetoric against sending tech jobs overseas, Seattle-based WashTech is a national journalist's first phone call.

  • News

    June 25, 2003

    Media, State Politics

    For the latest rhetoric against sending tech jobs overseas, Seattle-based WashTech is a national journalist's first phone call.

  • News

    December 4, 2002

    A Day in the Life

    For the latest rhetoric against sending tech jobs overseas, Seattle-based WashTech is a national journalist's first phone call.

  • Arts

    August 21, 2002

    War as Cartoon

    Was Desert Storm ironic?

  • News

    February 6, 2002

    Needle Exchange

    "News about Seattle from far and wide."

  • News

    September 5, 2001

    News Clips— Needle Exchange

    "News about Seattle from far and wide."

  • News

    July 18, 2001

    The revolution may be wireless

    Northwest networkers work toward a complete communications grid, minus the corporate interest.

  • News

    April 11, 2001

    The Browser

    Pay for content online? Pffffff!

  • News

    March 21, 2001

    News Clips— Needle Exchange

    Pay for content online? Pffffff!

  • Music

    May 3, 2000

    The Column That, Unlike High Fidelity, Is Actually Set in England

    Pay for content online? Pffffff!

  • News

    October 6, 1999

    The Imperial Patty

    Pay for content online? Pffffff!

  • Diversions

    September 22, 1999

    Fatboy's Forest Service

    Pay for content online? Pffffff!

  • News

    April 28, 1999

    Stump the butler

    Pay for content online? Pffffff!

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