Life news: I got a dog
At the center of Wayne Kimmel’s memoir, Six Degrees of Wayne Kimmel, lies the simple lesson of putting yourself out there. My favorite quote: “We may live in big world, but our lives really take place in small villages.” I think this is especially true for Philadelphia, which feels to me like the world’s biggest small town.
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Originally a 18′ by 36′ stone house (Wissahickon Schist), the structure wouldn’t have stood out from the other country homes in this part of Philadelphia, at the tip of the Manayunk Reach, situated at the end of today’s Manayunk Canal Towpath.
Ben Franklin’s 1731 Apology for Printers, translated into modern vernacular.
In a thread begun October 2016, Washington Post technology director Aram Zucker-Scharff tweeted about the shady advertising practices of EverQuote, a Boston-based startup. Since then these ads have become prolific on the web (and nearly as prolific are Aram’s tweets documenting the malfeasance).
What if Alden let another organization manage its newspaper assets as a blind trust? It would lose a great deal of flexibility in using DFM assets to leverage other companies it owns, but it would be able to wash its hands of the growing public relations crisis. Furthermore, it would give space for the strategic direction of DFM to be explored and pursued without the added baggage of hedge fund cross-percolation.
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