It’s fun to be back on a press trip after a few months at home. I almost forgot how much I enjoy meeting journalists and talking shop with website owners and writers. On this trip, I’m joined by Madelyn Miller, known as the Travel Lady, who publishes nine websites and […]
The winds were blowing and outside from my 15th floor Hilton hotel room, the flags strained, flapping wildly on their poles. Yet outside, long lines of schoolchildren wound their way past five-foot snowdrifts into tunnels that take them to a park where a huge house has been built of ice. […]
I’m in the terminal at Bradley, waiting to board a tiny Beechcraft for a 40-minute flight to Montreal. It’s my first trip of the year, and the destination is Quebec City, where they are celebrating the Winter Carnival. Fellow blogger and friend Ginger Warder just returned and she warned me–it’s […]
What’s new on the menu in Vietnam? None other than rat! I read on this rainy morning a story by James Hookway in the WSJ that told of the booming market for rodent all through Vietnam. Street vendors and restaurants report they are looking for rats to sell, and to […]
You can always find interesting stuff on Rush Limbaugh’s website. He’s in trouble with the GOP because he’s launching missiles against the assumed nominee. Here’s a link from the Times UK about the target of the talkmiester’s rath. “McCain’s marriage has long attracted attention both for the 18-year age gap […]
Today we’re running a help wanted ad on Craigslist for cafe help. That’s a good feeling, we’re adding to the jobs of America, the vaunted jobs that every pol talks about. Creating jobs for Americans. We’re doing that at GoNOMAD. The ad on Craigslist will bring in about 10 or […]
Last night was the kind of Saturday night I want 52 weeks a year. Sometimes that all important night just creeps up on you, and without plans you end up doing nothing fun. If somebody were to ask me how I’d like to spend Saturday night, last night is my […]
I ventured out into the sleet and chill to rally fellow business people to join our nascent Deerfield Attractions website, and so far there’s lots of enthusiasm for the plan. It makes so much sense, after all, to try and capture tourist visits using a website, and it didn’t hurt […]
It sometimes boggles my mind how much happens in this little office, everything is happening in marvelous waves. We’ve been in touch with another larger travel website about a new partnership, developing a whole new suite of pages with quality content. It’s going to be a great new way to […]
Ad agencies are coming up with rich sources of quality content and ideas…and Quizno Subs is getting sued by Subway over their agency’s latest idea…allow users to submit videos attacking their competitor’s sandwiches. I laughed out loud when I read the topics of some of the 115 videos sent in […]
The cafe sponsored a get-together for Chamber of Commerce members up at Hope and Olive, a very hip and cool new restaurant that is putting Greenfield on the culinary map. One of their owners, Jim Zaccaro, showed me his selection…more than 30 bottles of wine available by the glass. I […]
It’s a glorious Sunday at the cafe, many people coming and going. I had a chance to read the Republican and found a story close to my heart. It was about free newspapers, and quoted readers in Baltimore MD as having to fight to stop a free daily from landing […]