How prescient! I just wrote that the dead-tree book is dying and a tipster sent us in this charming little site dedicated to the joy of paper – funded by a paper manufacturer, one of the biggest in the world.
Domtar is the “largest integrated producer of uncoated freesheet paper in North America and the second largest in the world based on production capacity” and business, thus far, has been good. Like buggy whip manufacturers, however, the writing is on the wall – a great deal of the paper they spew out will soon be replaced by bits.
While most of that information, including the lip-service to sustainability, is false, I don’t envy Dotmar’s position. They are a massive paper conglomerate and their bottom line is being attacked by a free newspaper app you can download for iPad. Their best customers for centuries are now, slowly, turning away from them. That said, the website is a ham-handed attempt (one example bit of advice “Senior Executives prefer print…A resume is a summary of your professional career, not a blog about what you had for breakfast.” That’s why they’re called Senior. Duh!) by an entrenched industry to keep making money.
Read their mission statement:
Domtar is committed to the responsible use of paper. We’re also committed to communicating paper’s place and value to the businesses and people that use our products every day. Paper is a sustainable, renewable, recyclable, plant-based product that connects us in so many ways to the important things in life. Great ideas are started on paper. The world is educated on paper. Businesses are founded on paper. Love is professed on paper. Important news is spread on paper.
Businesses aren’t found on paper unless you count the antiquated filing systems required by some lawyers. Love isn’t professed on paper anymore – it’s expressed by Facebook status updates and YouTube videos. Important news is definitely not spread on paper, that much is clear since they decided to create a website instead of a publish wonderfully-printed 500 page book dedicated to the value of paper from the middle ages to today on expensive paper. I’m not being facetious. I’m being realistic.
I love me some paper as much as the next guy. In fact, I love paper books so much that I’ve been buying my son a few selected tomes in hardback or paperback just so we have them down the line. But friends I’m here to tell you that our book collections, impressive as they may be, will be as quaint as our parents old vinyl collections to our kids. I remember going through my Dad’s vinyl, picking out a bunch of great albums (he basically turned me into a Dylanophile and a Beatles fan, thus ruining my chances of getting a date in high school), and recording them to tape for easier listening. This is how my son will treat my book collection – an antiquated media with a great deal of value that will spur him to find the authors I loved as a youth in e-book form.
In the 19th century, everyone thought whale oil was the fuel of the future. It only a took a few years for the the sperm whaling industry to dry up. The same will happen to a number of entrenched industries in the next few decades including paper, petroleum, and hard disk manufacturing. It’s not a question of whether we like the soft, warm glow of spermaceti over the harsh, unwavering electric light, as PaperBecause is trying to suggest. It’s because electric light makes economic and cultural sense. Change comes fast to those who least expect it.
Democratic Illinois Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias said Thursday GOP rival Mark Kirk commited "economic treason" by raising money from Americans in China the day before he voted not to kill tax breaks for U.S. international companies.
The Kirk campaign said in a statement the assertion was "ridiculous both from a timing perspective and the fact that Kirk has been pretty consistent on China relations and against tax increases."
The peg for the Giannoulias statement, made at a press conference in Chicago's Loop: a leaked Kirk campaign memo--scooped by Rich Miller in Capitol Fax-- detailing Kirk's 2010 fund-raising activities, including the solicitation of Americans in Bejing.
Giannoulias said in his press release Kirk "held" a fundraiser in Bejing; rather, Kirk hosted a Skype call (a computer video hookup) with 12 U.S. citizens in Bejing. About $6,000 was raised from the event.
Raising campaign money from U.S. citizens living or visiting abroad is perfectly legal. Giannoulias went to Canada to collect money from U.S. trial lawyers at a convention; President Obama's 2008 campaign had a series of fund-raising events overseas.
Giannoulias said the call was "nothing other than an act of economic treason" and Kirk "held his fund-raiser essentially in China." He defended his statements even when reporters noted that the Bejing event was only a Skype call and was scheduled before May 17 (that was the date on the leaked memo) and that the House Rules Committee did not set the date for the May 28 vote until May 26.
That Skype call, the Kirk campaign said in a statement, "had nothing to do with legislation/votes." The tax break for international companies was an element in a broader bill passed mainly on a party line vote.
Meanwhile, not to let a good skirmish go to waste, later Thursday Kirk campaign chairman Eric Elk sent out a fund-raising appeal based on the "economic treason" charge.
"Alexi Giannoulias should be ashamed," Elk wrote. "That's right. A man who never served one day in uniform is accusing a 21-year Navy Reserve veteran of treason. It's dishonorable and a clear sign of desperation. Help us fight back against this latest desperate Giannoulias attack by making a contribution right now on our website."
Timothy Karr: Fox <b>News</b> Tries to Foreclose on Sesame Street
Every time PBS and NPR have come under attack, the American public has risen up in protest to defend -- not defund -- it. Whatever the rationale, Fox News' ongoing witch hunt tactic is a proven loser.
Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/26 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning! We have a full day of Kansas City Chiefs news. O-line love and praise for the running game and a shout out to DJ are ahead. There are also a few articles on the Buffalo offense and how productive they've been recently.
Nielsen: 362000 Monthly Users For <b>News</b> Corp.'s Times Paywall <b>...</b>
News International's silence on subscriber numbers for Times and Sunday Times online content continues, three and a half months after the paywall went up. But today audience research company Nielsen has taken a stab at estimating the ...
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Timothy Karr: Fox <b>News</b> Tries to Foreclose on Sesame Street
Every time PBS and NPR have come under attack, the American public has risen up in protest to defend -- not defund -- it. Whatever the rationale, Fox News' ongoing witch hunt tactic is a proven loser.
Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/26 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning! We have a full day of Kansas City Chiefs news. O-line love and praise for the running game and a shout out to DJ are ahead. There are also a few articles on the Buffalo offense and how productive they've been recently.
Nielsen: 362000 Monthly Users For <b>News</b> Corp.'s Times Paywall <b>...</b>
News International's silence on subscriber numbers for Times and Sunday Times online content continues, three and a half months after the paywall went up. But today audience research company Nielsen has taken a stab at estimating the ...
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How prescient! I just wrote that the dead-tree book is dying and a tipster sent us in this charming little site dedicated to the joy of paper – funded by a paper manufacturer, one of the biggest in the world.
Domtar is the “largest integrated producer of uncoated freesheet paper in North America and the second largest in the world based on production capacity” and business, thus far, has been good. Like buggy whip manufacturers, however, the writing is on the wall – a great deal of the paper they spew out will soon be replaced by bits.
While most of that information, including the lip-service to sustainability, is false, I don’t envy Dotmar’s position. They are a massive paper conglomerate and their bottom line is being attacked by a free newspaper app you can download for iPad. Their best customers for centuries are now, slowly, turning away from them. That said, the website is a ham-handed attempt (one example bit of advice “Senior Executives prefer print…A resume is a summary of your professional career, not a blog about what you had for breakfast.” That’s why they’re called Senior. Duh!) by an entrenched industry to keep making money.
Read their mission statement:
Domtar is committed to the responsible use of paper. We’re also committed to communicating paper’s place and value to the businesses and people that use our products every day. Paper is a sustainable, renewable, recyclable, plant-based product that connects us in so many ways to the important things in life. Great ideas are started on paper. The world is educated on paper. Businesses are founded on paper. Love is professed on paper. Important news is spread on paper.
Businesses aren’t found on paper unless you count the antiquated filing systems required by some lawyers. Love isn’t professed on paper anymore – it’s expressed by Facebook status updates and YouTube videos. Important news is definitely not spread on paper, that much is clear since they decided to create a website instead of a publish wonderfully-printed 500 page book dedicated to the value of paper from the middle ages to today on expensive paper. I’m not being facetious. I’m being realistic.
I love me some paper as much as the next guy. In fact, I love paper books so much that I’ve been buying my son a few selected tomes in hardback or paperback just so we have them down the line. But friends I’m here to tell you that our book collections, impressive as they may be, will be as quaint as our parents old vinyl collections to our kids. I remember going through my Dad’s vinyl, picking out a bunch of great albums (he basically turned me into a Dylanophile and a Beatles fan, thus ruining my chances of getting a date in high school), and recording them to tape for easier listening. This is how my son will treat my book collection – an antiquated media with a great deal of value that will spur him to find the authors I loved as a youth in e-book form.
In the 19th century, everyone thought whale oil was the fuel of the future. It only a took a few years for the the sperm whaling industry to dry up. The same will happen to a number of entrenched industries in the next few decades including paper, petroleum, and hard disk manufacturing. It’s not a question of whether we like the soft, warm glow of spermaceti over the harsh, unwavering electric light, as PaperBecause is trying to suggest. It’s because electric light makes economic and cultural sense. Change comes fast to those who least expect it.
Democratic Illinois Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias said Thursday GOP rival Mark Kirk commited "economic treason" by raising money from Americans in China the day before he voted not to kill tax breaks for U.S. international companies.
The Kirk campaign said in a statement the assertion was "ridiculous both from a timing perspective and the fact that Kirk has been pretty consistent on China relations and against tax increases."
The peg for the Giannoulias statement, made at a press conference in Chicago's Loop: a leaked Kirk campaign memo--scooped by Rich Miller in Capitol Fax-- detailing Kirk's 2010 fund-raising activities, including the solicitation of Americans in Bejing.
Giannoulias said in his press release Kirk "held" a fundraiser in Bejing; rather, Kirk hosted a Skype call (a computer video hookup) with 12 U.S. citizens in Bejing. About $6,000 was raised from the event.
Raising campaign money from U.S. citizens living or visiting abroad is perfectly legal. Giannoulias went to Canada to collect money from U.S. trial lawyers at a convention; President Obama's 2008 campaign had a series of fund-raising events overseas.
Giannoulias said the call was "nothing other than an act of economic treason" and Kirk "held his fund-raiser essentially in China." He defended his statements even when reporters noted that the Bejing event was only a Skype call and was scheduled before May 17 (that was the date on the leaked memo) and that the House Rules Committee did not set the date for the May 28 vote until May 26.
That Skype call, the Kirk campaign said in a statement, "had nothing to do with legislation/votes." The tax break for international companies was an element in a broader bill passed mainly on a party line vote.
Meanwhile, not to let a good skirmish go to waste, later Thursday Kirk campaign chairman Eric Elk sent out a fund-raising appeal based on the "economic treason" charge.
"Alexi Giannoulias should be ashamed," Elk wrote. "That's right. A man who never served one day in uniform is accusing a 21-year Navy Reserve veteran of treason. It's dishonorable and a clear sign of desperation. Help us fight back against this latest desperate Giannoulias attack by making a contribution right now on our website."
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Timothy Karr: Fox <b>News</b> Tries to Foreclose on Sesame Street
Every time PBS and NPR have come under attack, the American public has risen up in protest to defend -- not defund -- it. Whatever the rationale, Fox News' ongoing witch hunt tactic is a proven loser.
Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/26 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning! We have a full day of Kansas City Chiefs news. O-line love and praise for the running game and a shout out to DJ are ahead. There are also a few articles on the Buffalo offense and how productive they've been recently.
Nielsen: 362000 Monthly Users For <b>News</b> Corp.'s Times Paywall <b>...</b>
News International's silence on subscriber numbers for Times and Sunday Times online content continues, three and a half months after the paywall went up. But today audience research company Nielsen has taken a stab at estimating the ...
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Timothy Karr: Fox <b>News</b> Tries to Foreclose on Sesame Street
Every time PBS and NPR have come under attack, the American public has risen up in protest to defend -- not defund -- it. Whatever the rationale, Fox News' ongoing witch hunt tactic is a proven loser.
Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/26 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning! We have a full day of Kansas City Chiefs news. O-line love and praise for the running game and a shout out to DJ are ahead. There are also a few articles on the Buffalo offense and how productive they've been recently.
Nielsen: 362000 Monthly Users For <b>News</b> Corp.'s Times Paywall <b>...</b>
News International's silence on subscriber numbers for Times and Sunday Times online content continues, three and a half months after the paywall went up. But today audience research company Nielsen has taken a stab at estimating the ...
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Timothy Karr: Fox <b>News</b> Tries to Foreclose on Sesame Street
Every time PBS and NPR have come under attack, the American public has risen up in protest to defend -- not defund -- it. Whatever the rationale, Fox News' ongoing witch hunt tactic is a proven loser.
Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/26 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning! We have a full day of Kansas City Chiefs news. O-line love and praise for the running game and a shout out to DJ are ahead. There are also a few articles on the Buffalo offense and how productive they've been recently.
Nielsen: 362000 Monthly Users For <b>News</b> Corp.'s Times Paywall <b>...</b>
News International's silence on subscriber numbers for Times and Sunday Times online content continues, three and a half months after the paywall went up. But today audience research company Nielsen has taken a stab at estimating the ...
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