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32 years young, my friend! 20 years ago, I was in middle school, listening to the Beastie Boys "License To Ill," trying to figure out ways to sneak Eddie Murphy's "Delirious" into the VCR, and thinking I looked rather trendy wearing my colored leather ties to school.
I'm telling ya, I was beefcake in the making...
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I said 5- 10 years, I don't know where the 20 years came in. Kevin, I heard you still wear diapers. Oh i forgot that's just on the weekends. Were you really in Diapers 20 years ago. Judging from your picture You would have been 7 or 8, am I right.
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Who, when did I ask the 20 years ago question? I just mean now. I thought EVERYBODY here was in diapers 20 years ago (except Capers).
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Oh, and to answer your question on whether or not I read less newspapers now than I did 20 years ago, I'd have to say, "probably not." I was in kindergarten 20 years ago, Kevin. I was a smart kid, and all, but I didn't have a subsciption to the Wall Street Journal.
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I read the local papers for the sports, and sometimes for the gossip. But, I absolutely can't stand any of the local channels. They drive me insane with their repetitiveness and sensationalism and tacky anchors. They spend more time on promos than they do on news. But, in terms of RSS/podcasts, etc. that takes way too much time for me. It's hard enough to find time to keep up with what's going on with adholes! I do really look forward to my subscription to the Week, which gathers the best articles from all news sources over the week and re-publishes them in one magazine. I definitely recommend it to everyone.
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Kim, You're right i probably underestimated my use of local media sights, but truthfully when i look at my media habits over the last 5-10 years, local media has taken the biggest hit. If i were in Sacremento, I'm sure my local media usage would be much higher :) I'm curious is that just me or have others seen a decrease in their local news consumption?
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Thursday, July 21, 2005. 07:35AM
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Kim S
Actually Capers, Local tv news websites do very well. It depends on the user, but there's millions of people out there who want to know more about what's happening in their area than in the rest of the world. We get a few million hits a month. One of our goals is to be the online "newspaper" and we are constantly updating our site. The headlines can change every few minutes or so. Our audience is begining to realize the frequency of our updates and therefore they check in constantly throughout the day, which of course increases our hits. Obviously, people will go to the major news outlets for the big national and international stories so we don't even try to post those stories. We'll put up a headline and the main facts but we leave the indepth reporting on those larger picture stories to the "big guys."
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No RRS for me, and the firewall here blocks too many forums I usually frequent to stay up that way.
Mostly I listen to NPR (yay radio) on the drive here each morning, then Chicago Tribune and NYTimes online during the day. NPR on the way home, and then a few forums and blogs (tho admittedly these are less news related, and more entertainment in purpose) in the evening.
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For RSS Feeds I use NewsFire, www.newsfirersms.co/ that allows me to easily collect and categorize my feeds and then browse through the headlines using the spacebar, then click for the synopsis, double click for the full story. Daily average is over 120 items. Favorites are NPR, Wired, Engadget, BBC and NYT. Newsfire also provides for podcasting but I haven’t used it yet. I still love magazines especially monthlies that are not trying to keep up with the news cycles, instead provide entertainment insight and analysis.
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I get most of my news online - mainly from the NY Times site. I also go to a lot of newswire services like Reuters and PR Newswire. Lately, I've also been checking out blog sites like YPulse and the Phototalk blog, since youth marketing and stock photography are personal interests of mine and it satisfies my thirst for knowledge. So that ties in to Noelle's comment regarding the customization of information.
I also prefer magazines in print - magazine page layout really doesn't translate as well online. I like to flip through the pages of a magazine and be able to have something physical to read.
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Oh yeah I almost forgot, i read the tabloids for 2 minutes at a time as I stand in line at the grocery store, mainly to keep up on sasquatch and the next alien invasion.
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Kevin, I get a majority of my news online during the day. I check a few sights in the morning to get a feel for what is going on. Sites like The Drudge report, Fox news web site. New York times and the Washington post. I then watch about an hour of news at night, mostly cnn or fox. I will buy a sunday Atlanta Journal about everyother week when i have time to read it. The real losers I feel are local news organizations. I rarely if ever look at local news unless it is for the weather or traffic. I read magazines every night as well and at lunch sometimes. I enjoy magazines and find them conveinent when traveling or sitting for short periods of time.
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I'm probably not the norm: Since I read anything and everything that is put before me the latest technology has allowed me to absorbe more info in a shorter span of time. I also use an RSS aggregator [AskJeeves bloglines rocks!], podcasts [mostly NPR] - the one thing I can't give up and won't go online for is magazines. There's still a reading experience there that can't be duplicated in the online world. An interesting thing for you to think about - when the web was first introduced people would go online to "discover" what was out there and as their skills and familiarity with the web grew they began to search for "information + knowledge" today, as people become more and more familiar their seeking more "personalized" and "customized" resources [in other words information that is particularly relevant to their needs]
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Soon the internet will be used for everything by more and more people.I love the rss,but have not tried the podcast yet.
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Pod Casting is neato. I use rss for adholes on my.yahoo home page, where I noticed this new article and am now commenting on it...
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I get my news online but I still buy the NY Post in the morning since it's something to do on the subway. I use an RSS aggregator, and subscribe to 150 feeds or so. I've never ever listened to a podcast before. The newspapers are struggling though, but they'll always be here in NYC as long as you can't get the internet in subway tunnels.
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