In from Tech Crunch

At D7 today, Kara Swisher sat down with Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington and Washington Post’s Digital Chief Katharine Weymouth to discuss a topic that has been beaten to death: old vs. new media. Much of the interview was spent massaging each other’s egos, with each praising the other for the quality of their respective publication’s journalism.

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Well, duh, people pay to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. It's the freaking Wall Street Journal! As much I think what I have to say is exciting valuable interesting important moderately amusing at times, NO ONE is going to pay to read my nonsense. Arianna Huffington talking about porn, though...that's a must read. Ugh.

Article of the Day - Stirrups in the WSJ

I would have posted this yesterday when it ran, but I didn't see it until today. There are so many elements of greatness to this.

First of all, there is an article about stirrups, which are part of a proper baseball uniform. You put on socks to do anything. You put on stirrups to play ball.

Secondly, this appears in The Wall Street Journal. Enough said.

Fantastic headline.

Paul Lukas is quoted, which means it will be great.

And, finally, this graphic appears.

Sultans of Sock: Stirrups Hang On in Minor Leagues

Baseball Players Wear Them Under Orders; Fashionable Pelicans

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- Michael Broadway pulled up his blue baseball socks, the kind with no heel and no toe. He admired the way they looped under his instep, revealing the half-moons of the white socks he wears underneath them. (more)