The Rocky Mountain News was shut down in late February. The site will be named the Rocky Mountain Independent and will be fashioned as an "online daily magazine." The venture is set to launch in the summer. In an announcement, the ex-Rocky staffers said the new site will be staffed by professional reporters and will partner with blogs for content and revenue. Įx-"Rocky" staffers to create online news site - Former staffers of the defunct Rocky Mountain News are planning to launch an online news Web site. The magazine's 15 staffers also reportedly took a 20 percent paycut. Dozens of bands have agreed to contribute free music to those who donate. In an email to the magazine's 205,000 subscribers, Editor-in-Chief Josh Jackson said that the magazine was in "good shape" in the long term, but needs some cash during a short-term crises as advertisers wait out the recession. It's the time of year when one might wonder what happened to that avuncular family figure whose existence was so reliably dull they passed into history almost forgotten - a little like Db2, IBM's flagship relational database that has faded from users' collective memory.īig Blue's system of choice for its mainframes and big Unix/Linux boxes is still very much alive and kicking and has even delivered a smattering of news in recent weeks, with a high profile attendee at the early December International Db2 Users Group European Conference telling us that select users were told of the new "Db2u", a set of containers for Db2 aimed at users exploring or working with the database in the cloud.Ĭonference speaker, Db2 DBA, and commentator Ember Crooks had posted earlier this year that "db2u sounds amazing to me" and that "db2u, conceptually, is a nearly cloud-native way of doing a relational database management system." But she also pointed out that "the problem I run into is that db2u is only available on RedHat OpenShift.Paste magazine asks readers for donations - The independently-owned alternative music magazine Paste has appealed directly to its readers for help as it struggles to stay in business. Still, The Social Network™ remains intent on grabbing a significant slice of this virtual pie as it reconfigures its products and services for business.
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