Is it over for RSS readers?
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Is it over for RSS readers?
An interesting Tweet from Paul Kedrosky gave me pause for thought: @pkedrosky i haven t opened my RSS reader since June. Does that mean I am officially over that sort of thing? Am I a trend? When Paul said that, I suddenly realized that I too am using RSS readers much less than I was say six months ago. In one sense, the conversations in which I am most interested and which get my attention are occurring in the Twitterverse. But there are still plenty of folk I know who are sceptical about Tw
Mervyns Secures Financing
Mervyns LLC, the mid-tier department store chain that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, received approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for $465 million in interim financing provided by Wachovia Capital Finance Corp. The Hayward, Calif.-based department store chain, which operates about 175 stores primarily in California, on Thursday said the financing will be used to continue operations and to pay vendors as it restructures under Chapter 11. The final hearing on the debt
Billion dollar bankruptcies increasing, more expected in 2008
Whatever you do, please don’t even consider questioning the economic policies of the Republican party because they are the masters of the universe. As long you ignore the facts on the ground you will be fine.Fremont General Corp, which was one of the largest U.S. providers of subprime mortgages before regulators ordered it to stop making the loans, was the largest filing of the year with $13 billion in pre-petition assets, BankruptcyData.com said. Fremont filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protecti
Addicted to Email? You re Not Alone
A couple of days ago I was chatting with SitePoint s Managing Editor Matt Magain over instant messenger. That s a daily occurrence, but what made this chat a bit different than usual is that it was about 3am in Australia where Matt is located. What was he doing up so late? Clearing out his email inbox. If that sounds like a familiar scenario it does to me then you too might be an email addict. The results from AOL s fourth annual email addiction survey revealed that Americans, at least, ar
