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Craigslist has been extra special of late. Recent threads include "Spider Monkey, Did you Find a Home?" because apparently everyone wants the spider monkey someone is giving away, and "Make $400/hour being attacked by dogs in training" -- which is for the dudes that wear the protective suits and pretend to be intruders so big scary dogs can bite them.
In the more formal world of communication, I've become inadvertantly obsessed with the rivalries within the Murdoch clan over who will eventually assume control of News Corp. Why? Well I love politics, in the broadest sense of the world. News and media fascinates me. And News Corp is parent company to the weirdest array of media stuff ever. And in my eternal curiosity about people, I can't help but wonder what it would be like to be part of a family like that and have to endure contant articles about which of I and my siblings was in the ascendancy for total world domination. Also, the New York Times piece on it included my favourite moment of executive photo journalism ever -- this image from Reuters. Amusingly, other people I know who tend to follow both business and media stories even less than I do, also seem fascinated. I wonder what that's about really.
Seguing out from the subject of business news, my Alexander the Great business leadership theory book came today (I love half.com). I know it will be both really interesting and drive me up the wall (management books are the sort of thing that innately irk me, it's like self-help but extra-pompous), but I've heard awesome things about it over and over, and hey it was $1.99.
In the more formal world of communication, I've become inadvertantly obsessed with the rivalries within the Murdoch clan over who will eventually assume control of News Corp. Why? Well I love politics, in the broadest sense of the world. News and media fascinates me. And News Corp is parent company to the weirdest array of media stuff ever. And in my eternal curiosity about people, I can't help but wonder what it would be like to be part of a family like that and have to endure contant articles about which of I and my siblings was in the ascendancy for total world domination. Also, the New York Times piece on it included my favourite moment of executive photo journalism ever -- this image from Reuters. Amusingly, other people I know who tend to follow both business and media stories even less than I do, also seem fascinated. I wonder what that's about really.
Seguing out from the subject of business news, my Alexander the Great business leadership theory book came today (I love half.com). I know it will be both really interesting and drive me up the wall (management books are the sort of thing that innately irk me, it's like self-help but extra-pompous), but I've heard awesome things about it over and over, and hey it was $1.99.