Barry Diller has decided to let the butler go. He’s retiring this symbol of ‘Net Past, the Ask Jeeves cartoon character. The Street reports… “Jeeves is a reminder of the “playful, early days of the Internet,” said Rob Frankel, a Los Angles-based branding consultant. “A brand is not doing its […]
September’s Esquire included a profile of Jessie Jackson by John H. Richardson. “In the end, Jackson’s dilemma is like a curse in a fairy tale: Since he chose to base his power on fame, he’s perpetually compelled to chase fame. Yesterday he was in Florida, tomorrow he’ll be in Atlanta, […]
In four minutes a plane will be landing at LAX with a front wheel facing sideways. Paula Zahn just let us all take a commercial break before the scheduled emergency landing on the Airbus’s back wheels at 8:25pm est. This is a new twist, instead of watching a white bronco, […]
We’ve borne a new website here for our sister company Computer Cleaners. Joe designed a compact nice looking template and I created 14 pages of content, covering all aspects of computer viruses, how to avoid them, and many other details about our services. One feature is a cool Google Maps […]
My girlfriend loves Sayid. She swoons when he appears in the Lost TV show, each syllable out of his lips romantic and memorable. The man himself commented during the new season premier bash in Hawaii last week amidst frenzied fans: “It was in marked contrast to last year where the […]
Alex Beam writes in the Boston Globe about a new magazine on the scene called “Boston Common,” written for the rich, which blurs the distinction between advertising and editorial. The new mag is published by Jason Binn, a 37-year-old BU grad who publishes similar books in Washington and New York […]
Tim Leffel is a wonderful writer who has the gift. He sent us a story for GoNOMAD about Nashville, and here is how he began…when people ask me what it takes to be a travel writer, I’ll tell them “just write as well as this guy.” “My home of Nashville, […]
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr isn’t somebody I’d usually quote. But his column today about Al Gore makes a compelling case against the environmental movement. “The very day he spoke (to the Sierra Club), a congressional task force reported that the levees that failed in New Orleans would have been raised […]
At the post office this morning I found a discarded copy of Network World, where there was a story about a recent contest held in Finland involving hurling cell phones. The contest is simple, requiring only a basket of discarded and broken handsets, an open space, chairs for the three […]
I read this on a Bolivian blog today. Why don’t we have the nerve to do this? “Today is one of my favorites in Cochabamba, “Pedestrian Day”. On this Sunday (repeated once each year) there are no cars on the streets of this city of 700,000. No giant green Ford […]
Tina Brown writes in the Washington Post that Rupert Murdoch is famous for switching sides for business reasons, and he just may be doing that against the Bush administration. “The difference between Fox News and Murdoch’s other news outfits is that Ailes is almost as formidable a figure as the […]
