Thought For The Day: “”In economics there is no free lunch. We are going to attempt to have a lunch that to some extent we’re going to pay for later.” –Warren Buffet on the for sale online level of inflation that will be a part of the recovery

• Why I Sued Google (and Won)
  Part of many big successes (think MSFT, Monster) is a dance with organizational arrogance. As the bloom comes off the Google rose, we’ll hear about more stories like this one. It’s not necessarily a fatal flaw, it’s a normal developmental stage. BUT, some companies do get trapped here.
• The Online Experiments That Could Help Newspapers
  “an online ad typically garners one-tenth of the revenue of a print ad, estimates Rick Edmonds, media business analyst at the Poynter Institute. “The phrase in the industry is, ‘You are trading dollars for dimes,'” he says.“
• Back to the future: MediaNews revives “print your own newspaper”
  “Haven’t we seen this before?  Yes indeed.  It was in 1939 that radio station W9XZY, owned by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, inaugurated a trial of the first daily newspaper edition transmitted by radio signals to giant facsimile printers located in homes.”
• Welcome to the Hive Mind; Learn How to Search Twitter
  “Instead of detailing every operator you can use, I’ll pick out some of the specifically useful ones you should get comfortable with to make your search experience on Twitter better than it is on Google (that’s right, I said it!) As an aside, Google is a hive mind too, but their data is often collected as a side effect of user action, whereas the majority of Twitter’s “thoughts” are genuinely created and intentionally produced- carrying on.
  * Hashtags
  * Minus sign
  * Near
  * Since
  * Until“
• Recruiters Use Search Engines to Lure Job Hunters
  By the time it makes the Wall Street Journal, it’s old news, eh? As search engine marketing becomes more accepted, the bargain basement prices will evaporate.

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