They’re cured

Two weeks ago I had a picture of a grounds crew pulling up the old FieldTurf at Seibert Stadium at Samford. Today they are putting down the new material:

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The old stuff lasted for nine years. It has been interesting to watch them roll and shake and shovel and unroll the new stuff. Plus you never have to mow it.

I wonder if they can come to my place next.

Class today. We talked about advertising and someone showed this clip of Mad Men:

I always wonder why Don didn’t write “They’re cured.” I mean if everyone else’s cigarettes are poisoned and you’re selling comfort, security and happiness …

We watched this video, which students showed in this same class a year or two ago. It always blows peoples’ minds:

Oh, and there’s another one:

I had the Whataburger today that I didn’t have on Saturday. I swam a mile this evening. Let’s call it speed work since I kicked some and I was out of breath a lot.

Things to read … because when you read you can catch your breath.

And your weekend? 2 local girls raise thousands for brain tumor research

We’ve talked about this at conferences and in our visions for the future. We now live in the first part of the future. The ‘Holodeck’ Arrives in Newsrooms. How Will VR Influence Storytelling?

This is troubling. Survey: Most says journalism is headed in the wrong direction:

The reporters, editors and producers who put out the news every day are less satisfied with their work, say they have less autonomy in their work and tend to believe that journalism is headed in the wrong direction, according to the initial findings of “The American Journalist in the Digital Age.”

This is an inevitable move. Publishers go it alone with their own video hubs. But that isn’t the only answer, as we discussed in February: What to do when your video is winning social media, but it’s a copy that’s getting the clicks? The answer is pretty easy: be a lot of places.

Have you noticed someone has been writing Twitter obits since the platform was born? Twitter is not dying

No Regrets for the Founder of Tumblr After Yahoo Sale:

When Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion a year ago, it sent a ripple of excitement — and anxiety — through the tech industry. Would Yahoo and its recently arrived chief executive, Marissa Mayer, breathe new life into Tumblr? Or would Yahoo smother the start-up, as it did after acquiring popular young services like GeoCities and Flickr?

So far, the worst fears have begun to dissipate. Tumblr, a microblogging platform, has more than doubled its staff to 220, and its audience continues to grow, up 22 percent in the last year, according to the metrics company comScore.

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U.S. businesses are being destroyed faster than they’re being created:

The American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. That’s the conclusion of a new study out from the Brookings Institution, which looks at the rates of new business creation and destruction since 1978.

Not only that, but during the most recent three years of the study — 2009, 2010 and 2011 — businesses were collapsing faster than they were being formed, a first. Overall, new businesses creation (measured as the share of all businesses less than one year old) declined by about half from 1978 to 2011.

The authors don’t mince words about the stakes here: If the decline persists, “it implies a continuation of slow growth for the indefinite future.”

This a neat feature about archeology going on at terrible sites in American history. And they managed to only work Abu Ghraib into the piece twice. ‘We did this to ourselves’: Death and despair at Civil War prisons

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