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| Wednesday, July 6, 2005 |
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Over there 
Journalism .01
| | Dig the headline Mary spotted in our local paper when she was down here. |
The burden of loyalty
| | I'm here with my accountant, who notes that I can renew my Wall Street Journal print edition subscription for $231.66 per year (no more multi-year discounts offered), while a promotional mailing from the WSJ says I can get 60 weeks for $178. |
| | When I go online with a different browser (where there are no cookies to identify me), it gives me an offer of $32 for 3 months. That comes to $128/year. Ah, the person on the phone says: that's for students (though the offer doesn't say that, far as I can tell). I check again. This time I don't get that offer, but another one: $215 for 52 weeks. This is starting to look like air travel, where 50 passengers pay 50 different fares. |
| | So we go with the 60 weeks for $178, and let the long-standing existing subscription run out. While double copies of the paper pile up as they try to get me to renew, no doubt. |
Is Boeing being boering?
| | The actual workers are hamstring into boredom and I find the whole thing audience free... |
| | I'd love to know just who Boeing thinks its talking to and why they would login. And the reason I'm so critical is because I've seen how it can be. Have a look at the Butler Sheetmetal blog, called Tinbashers. This is a great business blog. It is written by people passionate about their work, about their lives and about business in general. Get a load of this post called Peanuts & Monkeys. Its clear, its smart and its deadly honest. |
| | Good points (including those in the paragraphs that follow). I'd never heard of Tinbasher, and it's strong stuff. But back to the two remaining aircraft manufacturing giants, because that's a very big context here. |
| | Not much, but searches for those terms on the Airbus site bring up nada. |
| | Same with Jeremy Zawodny, a fellow aviation buff who found himself "sucked into some excellent reading" about the 777's flight testing at Edwards. And hey, I'm a 777 fan. It's my favorite commercial airplane. (So far. I'm looking forward to the new 787.) Most of the best aerial photos archived here were taken from a 777. |
| | It's clear Boeing is hardly as open to blogging as its neighbor in Redmond — yet. But it's off to a worthy, if cautious, start. And Airbus (to my knowledge) has squat. |
| | I'd like to see a blog vs. blog contest between Boeing and Airbus. Betcha that would result in more sales for the company that has the most employees blogging. |
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