On his first day as a story assistant for the reality TV series “Renovate My Family,” Zachary Isenberg said, his bosses made an unusual request: Fill out your time card for the next three weeks of work. Isenberg was puzzled. How could he estimate his hours before he worked them? […]
Gino Piccin is a legendary salesman who taught me many things about the business. He was in the news recently, being honored by his fellow Dante clubbers in West Springfield, Tom Shea wrote about him in today’s Republican. Gino’s famous chicken with herbs will be cooked up by his brother […]
Attention is becoming the holy grail of mankind, the thing we most strive for but get the least. I predict that there will be a surge in demand for someone’s full and undivided attention…and a valueing and delineation of this. This special thing will be what advertisers crave but rarely […]
Venice illustrates some of the complicated political and economic issues involved in tourism. The city receives 16.5 million tourists a year, most of whom shuffle down the main route from St Mark’s Square to the Rialto Bridge. The latest plague there is the cruise ships. Forbe’s Anna Somers writes in […]
The Boston Herald editorial staff wrote a doozer today, on their website. “So does anyone think Aramark Concessions went to the Yellow Pages and by chance picked a security firm owned by a Suffolk court official who also happens to have a sister on the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission? No? […]
A smart woman named Cindy emailed me this story from the International Herald Tribune by Thomas Fuller. “Christopher Clarke, the president of a headhunting company cites studies showing that women are better at performing many things at once, or multitasking, and that they have more sophisticated emotional intelligence, like being […]
The Internet has proved to be a moneymaker for traditional newspapers, as they ring up big-time online ad revenue. David Utter reported today in Web Pro News. “Quiet the carillons and stop the procession. Newspapers aren’t quite dead yet. Readership of the printed page may be down, but the online […]
Agents seized $700,000 in fake U.S. postage stamps and blue jeans worth several hundred thousand dollars, FBI Deputy Director John Pistole said, in a report on AOL News today. They also got 42 million in viagra, meth amphetamine, and fake cigarettes. Eight of those charged were arrested on their way […]
Philip Wartel is out of business, and after two years he has nothing good to say about the funeral directors in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts who ran him into the ground. Wartel opened Pioneer Valley Casket Co just a year ago, and has faced the wrath of the funeral […]
Chris Waddle, director of the Knight Community Journalism Fellows writes in the Annistonstar.com, delivering more bad news to newspapers. “Modern media advocates from the American Press Institute love to stump newspaper executives by asking if they can identify Craig Newmark. Few can. Too bad. He’s the inventor of craigslist.org, the […]
Marie Javins has written a lot for GoNOMAD and she has moved to Uganda. Here is a slice of her life there with HM, her partner. “Sunday mornings are the quietest time at Paraa, the small ranger/tourist village at Murchison Falls National Park where I share H.M.s home. Mornings are […]
Calvin Broadus is everywhere. The famous rapper by the name of Snoop Doggy Dogg has made the mainstream….you see him on Chrysler commercials, teeing off with Lee Iacocca, and you read about his new youth football league, that’s poaching all of the best coaches from the other kids leagues. His […]