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 […]

“EEEEEEYOOOWWWWWWW” screams James Hunter, in a softer version of the James Brown primal scream. We saw this gifted Englishman play tonight at the Iron Horse in Northmpton. Each song was bookended and sharpened by two crack saxmen. A guy with slicked back hair on a huge baritone, and a bald […]