Rumblings: Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine
>>> How friggin’ maddening is it that everything Brian Tierney does becomes a “national trend”? Next up on the plate: Selling your HQ goes national. Never mind the fact that the real estate market in Philly is in the midst of an existential crisis and that the condo market has gone all Owen Wilson on us. Or the fact that the only way morale could be lower at the paper would be if, you know, you stripped the Inky of the little history/dignity it had left. Sigh. Fuck it: We’ll just buy it back when we crush all you bitches, Tierney. Blood in my eyes, dawg, and I can’t see. But I know the way. Whoa, sorry about that, everybody. Late August fever. I’m alright. [WSJ]
>>> So, even though Earthlink hemorrhaged 900 employees earlier in the week, the Wireless Philadelphia project is still on track, if only because it’s too far along already for Earf to throw a dot-com 1.0 2001-style freakout. Which is good for us. [DN]
>>> Not so good for Chicago, or San Francisco. Which essentially means that Philly is gonna scrap to the top of the digi-heap in the most crazy, near-accidental manner possible. Tell the truth, grasshopper: Would you have it any other way? [SFGate]








