Rolll Tide! Watching Alabama play Auburn in the 2011 Iron Bowl game in Tuscaloosa Alabama. What a thrill!
It’s a sleepless night in Birmingham for many football fans…because tomorrow is the 75th Iron Bowl, as the National Champions Alabama meet their most hated rivals the Auburn Tigers in Tuscaloosa. Shoul and I will be there–but first we meet a family of Roll Tide tailgators to take in the […]
Tomorrow, instead of joining my family in ceremonial eating, I shall be airborne, heading to Birmingham Alabama. I am going to spend the next five days in a dizzying display of manly arts—hunting f0r quail, hunting for whitetail deer, and taking in a museum full of thousands of motorcycles and […]
It’s a tough time for believers, say believers. A story in Christianity Today described the problem of young people leaving the church. ” Other survey results have been grimmer. At the May 2009 Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, top political scientists Robert Putnam and David Campbell presented research […]
A story in today’s Gazette shows the terrible power of celebrity, and that like most of us, we believe it when somebody ‘famous’ wants something big. Matt Pilon wrote about a late night visit to Antonio’s Pizza in Amherst by a man wearing backstage credentials for the Bob Dylan show […]
Some writers inspire me, others make me envious that they are so talented at lining up just the perfect words. I laughed out loud at the cafe while reading Dan Neil’s review of the new Mercedes CL63 AMG. Here is a snip, as he describes opening up the throttle on […]
What’s the most important thing to me about our website? I think that has to be the impact we have on so many people and that we make their lives richer as a result of the stories we publish. Some people get great joy in getting in the news a […]
After a conference like this my group of webmaster pals and I all came away with the same feeling. Whoa, we’ve got so much work to do! That happens when you hear from a kid who graduated from MIT in 2010, and now has VC backers providing millions for a […]
Rob Solomon the COO of Groupon stunned the audience with his figures. It’s the fastest growing company in history, and in just nine months they’ve grown from 100 to 3000 employees. Now they offer their amazing deals by email in 30 countries. I know anecdotally that it really works…at least […]
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Ten years ago, Rich Barton was the CEO of Expedia, which at that time was the dominant travel fare search website. Today at Phocuswright, a clip was played of a young Barton up on stage being asked a question by investor Carl Icahn, about reading a balance sheet. In the […]
If there is one topic that most people are comfortable talking about it’s weather. In fact, it’s a topic that generates more interest than almost anything else. Tonight I got a chance to meet a man who has made weather his occupation. Chuck Prewitt is one of the owners of […]