In 2009, I set many goals for the website. One of them was to be featured in the traditional media in some way. It could be a business magazine or newspaper, just something traditional. This is opposed to new media such as websites, video, and especially blogs. Call it a tribute to dying media, acceptance of legitimacy, or something else, I don’t care. I just wanted it.
Well it didn’t happen in 2009. But in 2010, things are different! In today’s edition of the Wall Street Journal, Weakonomics is featured in the personal finance section! That’s right, I made it in the Wall Street Journal….
….just not in the way I intended. Even though I am clearly the first person to have thought of the word “Weakonomics,” I’m not the first to use it and don’t own the word either. A nice chap by the name of Matt Phillips (not me I promise) used Weakonomics to describe this week’s economic news. It’s actually a fairly close representation of the many definitions I have for Weakonomics.
So this isn’t the win I expected, and it’s only in a publication with a similar following as this website but I can at least pretend Mr. Phillips reads my blog and is such a fan he decided to borrow my word. Keep up the good work buddy.
Hat tip to Joe for pointing this out.
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Ah that’s a shame… so near and yet so far! Perhaps you could write a cheeky letter to the editors (in a bright and breezy tone) and they’d print it? Could generate some useful traffic…