David Cazares is an editor for MPR News. He also writes about jazz and Latin music.
Those tap-tap-tap noises you hear are DVD coffin nails. Netflix is trying like mad to get out of the DVD business. Peter Kafka of All Things D nails it: Even though the majority of Netflix’s 24 million subscribers are still paying it to get DVDs by mail, Reed Hastings and company see themselves as Internet Read more →
Weary of the state government shutdown? If not, read Shutdown 11 — MPR News is all over it. But you could use a break, right? We offer the following distractions: 1) How ships are launched 2) Macaque self-portrait That’s one compelling photo — taken by the monkey who grabbed a camera from a nature photographer. Read more →
With the 2011 NHL season nearing its final act (and the Minnesota Wild season a distant memory) MPR News editor Bill Wareham offers this remembrance of a time 20 years ago when professional hockey in Minnesota might have reached its peak.
“I’m not interested in what you had for lunch.”
That’s the kind of complaint I hear often from Twitter skeptics. They’re partially right — there’s a lot garbage on Twitter.
But Twitter can also act as a vital news service, of course.
Soon you won’t have to be without Target on your ventures north of the border. Minneapolis-based Target Corp. is detailing its plans for a big push into Canada. Target announced yesterday it will open the first of 105 stores across 10 provinces in the first part of 2013 — including a store in Winnipeg. Target Read more →
The Minnesota Vikings’ agreement with Ramsey County for a new $1.057 billion stadium includes a $407 million contribution from the team and private financing. A chunk of that, should the stadium be built, would come from corporate naming rights. Same thing goes for a deal to keep the Vikings in Minneapolis. So…which Minnesota company might Read more →
Facebook and public relations firm Burson-Marsteller are parting ways after reporter Dan Lyons (the artist formerly known as “Fake Steve Jobs”) exposed Facebook’s smear campaign against Google. For the past few days, a mystery has been unfolding in Silicon Valley. Somebody, it seems, hired Burson-Marsteller, a top public-relations firm, to pitch anti-Google stories to newspapers, Read more →
In a few years Arden Hills, Minnesota could be one of those cities that national TV audiences hear a lot but know nothing about. You know, like Pontiac, Michigan, former home of the Detroit Lions stadium. Heck, Minnesotans don’t know much about it. So as the legislature considers whether to spend public money on a Read more →
Bob Collins is off today, and no one can do 5×8 like him, so we won’t even try This just in: The rapidly-spreading “Sitting is killing you” meme may killing you faster than sitting is killing you. It’s producing a lethal cocktail of guilt for enjoying sitting and frustration over the inability to do much Read more →
New Yorker Magazine reporter Ken Auletta spoke at St. Thomas University in St. Paul last night as part of MPR’s Broadcast Journalist Series. Auletta covers technology and media, and is author of the recent book Googled: The End of the World As We Know It. Auletta shared some good anecdotes about the tech figures he Read more →
This has been a soul-crushing Minnesota winter but at least we don’t have to worry a great deal about earthquakes and liquefaction.
These days folks who are trying to make money from the whole digital thing talk about market penetration for smart phones, broadband Internet, social social networking and tablet computers. In 1936 it was all about radio.
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