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The new owner of the Washington Post met the staff today. It sounds like things went well – he kicked them in the butt but also gave confidence that he knows what to do.<\/p>\n
Jeff Bezos has made Amazon into a powerhouse, and a lot of the reason why brick and mortar newspaper advertising is drying up. His company has the Kindle eReader and it’s pretty clear he sees that as the future of news delivery. I found this story reading Flipbook on an iPad – it’s a much more appealing way to read news than scanning drudge for yet more depressing headlines.<\/p>\n
Flipboard allows me to “mute” annoyingly biased unuseful publications. The latest version is learning my tastes. I can read TheBlaze there. I like pictures.<\/p>\n
His remark that hit a home run (that applies to radio just as much) is you have to stay young – if you decide to just grow old with your customers, you end up becoming Woolworth’s and fade away as your customers die off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/9\/4\/4692088\/jeff-bezos-is-a-hit-washington-post-staff-excited-by-new-owner The new owner of the Washington Post met the staff today. It sounds like things went well – he kicked them in the butt but also gave confidence that he knows what to do. Jeff Bezos has made Amazon … Continue reading