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The Best Articles We’ve Read This Week: The March 6 Hitlist

Every Friday The Daily Anchor offers up the best articles we’ve read all week. Most are recent, some are old, but hopefully they’ll all be useful, interesting or entertaining. The list isn’t huge and it isn’t exhaustive, because if it were there’d be no chance you’d read them all.

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How Will Print Publications Survive?

For a while the print industry was doing an okay job of rolling with the punches being delivered by online media, but with the decline of our economy it would seem that print is on the ground for the final knock out.

Is it too late to save print?

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The Best Articles We’ve Read This Week: The Feb 27 HitList

Every Friday The Daily Anchor offers up the best articles we’ve read all week. Most are recent, some are old, but hopefully they’ll all be useful, interesting or entertaining. The list isn’t huge and it isn’t exhaustive, because if it were there’d be no chance you’d read them all.

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All Hands On Deck: 4 Editors on the SF Chronicle Implosion

Fridays hold a very special place in our hearts, so in honor of our 3rd favorite day of the week we’re going to shake things up a little… From now on, every Friday all 4 Daily Anchor editors will weigh-in on a recent development, event or trend. Our first topic is Hearst’s threat to end the San Francisco Chronicle.

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A Little Bit of Good News in a Bad News World

It seems like every time we turn on the news these days, we hear a glass-half-empty attitude about everything. And for good reason. There are a lot of bad things going on in this world right now. It has gotten to the point where I can hardly bear to watch the nightly news. Lately, I just turn it off, because it can be so [...]

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The Best Articles We’ve Read This Week: The Feb 20 HitList

This is the second in a series of Friday posts in which we’ll cover the best articles we’ve read all week. Most will be new, some will be old, but hopefully they’ll all be useful, interesting or entertaining.

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Recession Proof Industries: A Few Unexpected Industries That Are Up When the Economy is Down

A while back we wrote about how to find a job in a recession, and we recommended you look into industries that are expected to keep growing despite the downturn. Most of those industries were pretty obvious, though, so here’s a look at some unexpected industries that continue to rock through the recession.

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The Best Articles We’ve Read This Week: The Feb 13 Hit List

This is the first in a series of Friday posts in which we’ll cover the best articles we’ve read all week. Most will be new, some will be old, but hopefully they’ll all be useful. The list isn’t huge and it isn’t exhaustive, because if it were there’d be no chance you’d read them all.

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A Conversation With Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey

Yesterday fellow Daily Anchor Ella Keeven and I met with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey for a little chat over a cup of coffee. Well, a latte, drip coffee, and cappuccino, respectively.

Here’s a look at how Twitter got started, what’s changed, and the recent buzz about how they’re planning to monetize the site… and Jack’s favorite iPhone Twitter client (there’s like 30.)

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Twitter to Begin Charging Brands for Use. Maybe. Sort of. Not really.

Yesterday the mediaverse was abuzz with talk that Twitter was going to start charging for commercial use of its service. I just met with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, and not only is that old news (they’ve been talking about it for a year,) but most “news” reports yesterday missed the mark. Here’s the real story.

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EXCLUSIVE: Restoration Hardware Planning Top-Level Layoffs

Inside sources are reporting that home furnishings giant Restoration Hardware is planning to consolidate its upper-management in a last-ditch effort to reduce costs by cutting high salaries. Recent layoffs of low-level employees have shifted the workload to managers, leaving middle-management stretched too thin while not staving off the company’s financial crisis.

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Life On Demand: MIT’s Wearable Computer

Students at MIT have developed some impressive technology, Wear Ur World, a computer-vision based wearable and gestural interface – a wearable computer that lets you use natural hand gestures to augment the physical world with digital information. While not nearly commercially available yet, it is piquing my interest as a marketer.

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Google and NASA Launch Singularity University

Google, NASA and a handful of other science and tech companies are combining forces to form Singularity University. The school’s mission is to solve “humanity’s grand challenges” and will be based near Mountain View, CA. Since we’re all a little ADD, here are the key takeaways, some pretty pictures, and a video…

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Rapp Layoffs: Agency Culls Freelancers and High-Salaried Employees

The Daily Anchor has just received an inside tip that heads are being culled at Rapp Ad Agency in Ogilvy-style. Higher salaried employees and freelancers are getting the boot, but managers are said to be safe for now. Thus far I’m hearing reports of 13 layoffs in New York and 6 in Chicago, but 10% of the workforce is said to be targeted for layoffs.

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Pfizer Layoffs: Pfizer to Merge with Wyeth and Layoff 10% of Workforce

On Friday we reported that Pfizer was in talks to takeover Wyeth, and over the weekend the $68 Billion deal was finalized. The AP reports that Pfizer is cutting 10% of its workforce, slashing its dividend, and reducing the number of manufacturing sites. Inside sources exclusive to The Daily Anchor are saying that the layoffs will focus on Pfizer’s sales team, and that 50% of its pharmaceutical sales positions will be eliminated to make room for Wyeth.

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Pfizer to Takeover Wyeth? $60B Merger Discussions Underway

Pfizer is in talks to takeover rival drug maker Wyeth in a deal valued at $60 billion. The companies have reportedly been in talks for months but the deal is said not to be imminent. Here’s a rundown of the facts and numbers…

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Microsoft Layoffs: 5,000 Jobs to be Cut Over Next 18 Months

This morning Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent an email to all Microsoft employees announcing plans to layoff 5,000 employees over the next 18 months. Most news sources are saying “an internal email was leaked to the press,” which makes this sound like the email was intended to be kept private. However…

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California: State Needs to Honor Committment to UC

The UC Regents voted Wednesday to curtail undergraduate enrollment growth for Fall 2009. To many of us who knew then-UC President Clark Kerr and then-Gov. Pat Brown, developers of the 1960 master plan for higher education in California, this is a sad day. However, as a former UC regent, I cannot lay fault with either the UC Regents or UC President Mark Yudof…

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Google Layoffs 2009: Google Cuts 100 Positions yet Manages to Redeem Itself

Earlier this week Google closed several engineering offices and eliminated 100 recruiting positions (Googlers, not contractors this time), but handled it such a way that it actually serves as a model for how other companies should manage layoffs…

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Pfizer Layoffs 2009: New Details Emerge and Rumors Abound

Pfizer has announced a new round of layoffs. The cuts target 800 research positions, 556 sales positions in Italy, and nearly 1,000 sales positions in France. I’ve compiled the hard facts that have been reported thus far, as well as unsubstantiated but seemingly credible details on how Pfizer will determine who gets laid off…

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