Yesterday was a wonderfully lazy day, and one to curl up and watch a good movie. That was Shopgirl, based on a novella and starring author Steve Martin. Claire Danes is Miribelle, a girl from Vermont who works at Saks in Beverly Hills, and meets two men. The first is […]

Bob Garfield has always been one my favorite media writers. When Joe O’Rourke and I used to work together at the Gazette, we’d share our favorite snippets of his ad reviews with relish. I read Garfield’s recent cover story about YouTube and Google the other day, and walked away with […]

Market and research developers have to come to the same conclusion time after time: sex sells. With that knowledge in mind, companies have begun to create fake profiles on social networking sites in order to promote their products. Autumn Davis writes on Web Pro News today. “It was brought to […]

Got back home late last night, after a coffee-fueled drive up I-95, and am still giddy from the events in the city. Our annual visit to the VEMEX show brought us in touch with dozens of tourism boards and we got to say hello to those officials who sent us […]

Sitting in my office, high above Broadway, in a large suite at the Broadway Plaza Hotel. New York City traffic honks and sirens its way by, far below our fourth floor window. Outside the Empire State Building has been bathed in green and red light, to the right, far down, […]

I sent last night’s post about how newspapers can beat Craig’s List to my friends in the ad dept of the local newspaper in Northampton. Think they would consider something like this? And let people place their own ads? NO way! But it’s fun trying to get their attention. I […]

Robert X. Cringely writes on the PBS website about Craig’s list, and a commenter on his blog makes an asute recommendation to newspapers. “Newspapers take notice. There is a MUCH better way to manage advertising in your newspaper. Start with a web-enabled application that will allow your clients to place […]

Today’s NY Times weighs in on a new kind of academic study: “Nearly 120 people, including many academics, belong to a fat studies list serve on Yahoo!, which was started in 2004 by activist Marilyn Wann, the author of “Fat!So?” And the first “Fat Studies Reader,” an anthology of scholarly […]

Bob Garfield has a piece in the new issue of Wired about YouTube. He predicts the end of television advertising, as it is eventually blown apart by the ‘Net. Too many performers too many screens that demand personalization, too much skipping through commercials, too many losses to the ‘Net and […]

The 8,000 pound Hummer has been located about a mile downstream in the Deerfield River. The Recorder kept calling it a “Humvee” which is not at all what it is…that’s the more heavy duty deluxe $35,000 military version…this was the one that rich guys buy to look macho driving down […]

Today the cafe is very slow but I am still in a great mood. The crisp air makes me feel lively, and happy, and last night we had a fun Thanksgiving feast with many relatives and friends. Picked up today’s Greenfield Recorder and found an item on the front page […]