This entry was posted August 27th, 2008 and has 2 comments.
That’s right. This Sunday, August 31 is the Virginia Beach Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon. This will be my second Half after running the Baltimore one this past October. This course is supposed to be much flatter and faster than the monstrously hilly Baltimore course.
I’ve been training for the past 6 weeks or so and feel quite good about where I am in my preparation. I’ve started to have some pain in my shins and knees lately, but don’t foresee that being much of a problem on race day.
This Friday morning I’ll be driving down with Lauren and Andrea and meeting up with their friends at VA Beach. Hopefully we’ll have some sun for the weekend and not feel the wrath of Gustav.
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This entry was posted August 21st, 2008 and has 3 comments.
This week, John Berry penned a very interesting and thought-provoking piece for the Baltimore City Paper titled, “Press Release, The Sun’s Ever-Shrinking Newsroom Isn’t Good News For Baltimore“. In this piece Berry takes us through the last 10-20 years of staff cutbacks, branch closures, and formatting changes that have occurred at the Baltimore Sun. Berry makes many great points and shows why every major city needs a credible, well-researched, daily news periodical.
The vast majority of Baltimore citizens can agree with this. We need professional, full-time journalists to cover our city and bring all of the stories into the public eye. What Berry doesn’t discuss, and what many newspaper executives around the country are no doubt struggling with, is how do newspapers remain relevant and increase readership in the 21st century? How do newspapers grow and remain profitable so they can afford to hire and retain these journalists and run a paper that people want to read?
Advertisers are the major revenue stream for any newspaper. As all of us know, there has been an explosion of new media options over the past 5-10 years. Where advertisers used to only have to choose from TV, radio, magazines, and newspapers, their choices have been compounded exponentially by the options available on the web, mobile, and other digital platforms. Newspapers have been hit especially hard by the web and the accountability and tracking it offers.
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This entry was posted August 1st, 2008 and has 2 comments.
Every year, for at least the past 5 years, I’ve said I was going to buy a new snowboard. And every year I ended up not buying one and just riding my trusty old Burton. It’s not that there was anything specifically wrong with that board, it’s just that it’s the board that I first started riding when I was 19, now 8 years ago.
The Burton I have been riding was also a very inexpensive, starter board. While I will not be competing in the X Games any time soon, it was definitely time to get a larger, nicer board that I can plan on riding for the next 10 years.
The new board, pictured above, is a Capita 156 and is part of their Outdoor Living line from 2008. Carrington at 3 Rideshop was nice enough to hook me up with this beauty at a very reasonable price. In fact, the price was so reasonable that I decided to pick up new bindings and boots as well. Like I said, I’ve been riding the same setup for the past 8 years.
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