By Ben Haber
By Ben
Last week China decided to block YouTube because videos of protests in Tibet appear on the popular site. Now, Cuba has decided to block the country’s most-read blog, Generacion Y.
The blogs author, Yoani Sanchez, describes her site as “A blog inspired by people like me, with names that start or contain a “Y”. Born in the Cuba of the 70s and the 80s, marked by the “schools to the countryside”, the Russian cartoons, the illegal exits and the frustration. So, an invitation goes especially to Yanisleidi, Yoandri, Yusimí, Yuniesky and others that drag their Ys, to read me and write back”
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Ms. Sanchez, who was the subject of a page one profile in The Wall Street Journal, has become an influential voice on Cuba. Her Web site, which details the frustrations and ironies of daily life in Cuba, gets about one million hits a month. Most of those readers are outside the country. Ms. Sanchez’s ability to publish a critical Web site without getting shut down has made her a flashpoint for controversy.
March 25th, 2008
By Ben Haber
By Ben
Last year Jordan’s Furniture came up with a creative marketing campaign that offered customers who buy furniture between March 7 and April 16 their money back if the Red Sox won the World Series.
This year, Jordan’s is using the same marketing campaign for customers that buy furniture between March 25 and April 27– but this time the Red Sox have to SWEEP the World Series.
March 25th, 2008
By Ben Haber
By Ben
The Wall Street Journal will undergo another makeover in the next few weeks. The marketplace section of the paper will be changed to include more breaking news and shorter articles.
These changes come after current owner, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, bought Dow Jones & Company in December. Murdoch has been making changes to the Wall Street Journal over the past few months by incorporating more general interest news like world news and sports, in order to create a larger market for the paper.
These changes come as the newspaper owners are struggling to make a profit. The New York Times reports that last year alone, ”overall newspaper revenues dropped by about 7 percent, pushed along primarily by the secular change of readers and advertisers fleeing to the Web.
March 25th, 2008
