Today is a blur, time is racing. Trying to get all of the things done in the office before I fly tonight. What an exciting feeling, waiting for an 11 pm to sultry Budapest. I have been briefed on the nation by two Hungarians who we met in NJ. They […]
GoNOMAD is lucky to be located in a prosperous New England town. I know this because when I walk to the bakery, I pass by shops that are full of customers, a real estate office brimming with listings, and a hardware store with a full parking lot. It is reassuring […]
Many businesses make money solely by attracting visitors who are referred to sites where they make a small or large transaction. It can be a beautiful thing, but it can evaporate if search engines like Google drop them from their ranks. Web Pro News gave this advice today: “As a […]
Chandler Phillips recently went undercover for Edmunds.com, the car buying website, to provide a glimpse into the secret world of car sales. He was hired as a salesman at an LA dealership, and provides these insights into this shadowy world. “At times Michael became very excited as he thought of […]
Merv Griffin was profiled in last week’s NY Times. He provided a few nuggets about how he amassed his King Midas-sized fortune. “In 1986, he sold Merv Griffin Enterprises, which included Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune to Coca-Cola for $250 million. He still recieves royalties from the Jeopardy! theme, which […]
Americans love when a giant goes down. Wal-Mart recently admitted defeat, and has thrown in the towel in its nascent DVD rental by mail business. The behemoth company is now directing its customers to use Net Flix, the pioneering original that developed the concept and tried to get a patent […]
Today’s Sunday NY Times includes many blogworthy nuggets, including this feature about the new proliferation of explicit sex manuals in bookstores of late. “Now the old textbookish tomes like “Joy of Sex,” which invited readers to expand their horizons beyond the face-to face missionary position have been replaced by shiny […]
Cooking in New Jersey on a thundering Saturday afternoon while my sister Jen ran out to have her nails done. This is always a challenge, where do you find the right containers, the right spices, the knives, and the lemon you need? Jen loves to load me up with cooking […]
Journies by ferryboat in New England demonstrate the difference between private and the semi-public administration, and the difference in the user experience. Family-owned Hyline Cruises runs year-round high speed ferries to Nantucket from Hyannis and makes a profit. The Martha’s Vineyard & Nantucket Steamship authority also runs ferries, but they […]
Last night finally, after so many weeks, brought the final episode of Lost. Whoa, now I am truly lost. There’s nothing like a cliffhanger to make people come back in the fall to pick up where they left off in May. But this one sewed up no loose ends, and […]
May has turned nasty here on the New England coast. A storm brewed up last night and the wind howled outside my hotel window. Now, three Russian moving men sit on the lobby couch, killing time at the hotel. That’s because the fast ferry and even the slow ferry are […]
This was found on Cyberjournalist.com a good site to tap into for web info. Lately a number of sites and developers have been tapping into Google Maps to create great new tools. Any of these ideas would be fantastic on news sites. Here are eight of the coolest ones: • […]