Yesterday as I was helping Cindy move her office I had time to peruse a copy of National Geographic. There I found a story about a favorite topic: Pirates. In the long story, Peter Gwin meets up with an Indonesian pirate who is held in a Malaysian jail, after a […]
Here is our newest acquisition…a cool tradeshow booth that fits into the little stand shown in front, that we’ll use at the Javits Center for the NY Times Travel Show. No more borrowing booths, no more fussing over hard to assemble old outdated equipment. It took my friend Dave and […]
I read today as I sat in the cafe looking at the rain about a very sad restauranteur. Sad because business at her Chinese restaurant is down more than 70%. The photo in today’s Daily Hampshire Gazette showed Rachel Wang setting a table for lunch in a forelorn and empty […]
Now the big PR blitz begins…I mailed out press releases to local newspapers here trumpeting our first appearance as exhibitors at the New York Times Travel Show. Hopefully this will be newsworthy to our local papers and we’ll see some coverage. In the release I detail my plans to present […]
I got a task done today that has been on my mind for weeks. Boy it was good to hit send, and give Jeremy all of the info he needs about my Search Engine Optimizing workshop at the Boston Globe Travel Show on February 22. I’ll have to get an […]
I’ve had Tony Wheeler’s new book “Bad Lands,” by my bedside table, I read the section on his trip to Libya. In the book the author visits as many vilified places as he can, including North Korea, Albania, Iraq and Iran among others. A few stories Wheeler relates that he […]
I came across a collection of Polaroids from the ’60s of women who were applying for jobs at strip clubs. They are charming and evocative of how women looked back then. Fascinating!
Dana Milbank writes about New Year’s Eve on the campaign trail in Iowa in the Washington Post. Here he zeroes in on the GOP front runner. “Huckabee was the lone candidate to defy his image; the GOP populist who rails against the country-club set scheduled his early-evening party at, uh, […]
Lunchtime is prime time for web viewing, according to a story in today’s NY Times. Cube dwellers browse videos on websites all of the time but they ramp up viewing at this golden hour of noon. Marketers have found that people who watch products videos at noon are 30% more […]
Saturday at the cafe: A man meets a woman from a dating service. It looked like they enjoyed their coffee, but, no match. Then old pal Bill comes in, a regular. We sat for a coffee and then it was time to update the website we maintain for him. We […]
Last night with a sigh of relief I published my article about Vero Beach FL. I have tried to stick to a rule of publishing articles within a 30-day window after I return from a trip. I got back from Vero in late November, so this one was just about […]
It may be cold outside, but for Carlo and Nathan Cosme, it’s time for sledding on Beacon Field in Greenfield. This photo appeared in the Republican Newspaper yesterday!