Google: Fake Clicks, Real Headaches
This from Web Pro News today…”Click fraud is the term used in the Internet search industry to describe the practice of clicking on search advertisements to run up the costs on advertisers. Companies buy an advertisement through Google’s AdWords program, whereby certain keywords are purchased in order to appear in […]
Marvelous Likes the Pen
Tonight riding home on the Mass Pike, I listened to VB, filling in on the Howie Carr show. The topic was the recent story about Vladimir Putin. Meeting with Patriots owner Bob Kraft and Rupert Murdoch in Russia, Putin was handed Kraft’s new Superbowl ring, studded with hundreds of diamonds—and […]
Huge SUVs on Narrow Streets
Sitting in the front room of the Dolphin Guest House, thinking about driving in Nantucket. Like my esteemed peers before me, Russell Baker and David Halberstam both have both railed about the size of people’s vehicles on this little rock. Whether you believe that large SUV sales are down, bloated […]
Silent Commercials on F/X
Watching the F/X channel. One of the channels you have to pay more than $4.95 per month for, hence not in my line-up in Deerfield. But here in Nantucket, I got to view Dennis Leary’s surprise hit ‘Rescue Me.’ The show is well done, really good dialogue, and sharply defined […]
Trump Returns a Call, Reporter Faints
Michael Mayo writes with admiration about Jimmy Breslin, in the Sun Sentinel. He gave us all a good tongue-lashing Saturday, and a lot of people nodded their heads in agreement. He ripped newspapers for losing “their backbone and their nerve,” ripped writers for their timidity and boringness, ripped George W. […]
Madaket’s Famous Faces
Last night on Nantucket I decided to head out of town. So I parked my bike and took a shuttle bus out to Madaket. Madaket doesn’t have much to it, a big boatyard, some fine homes, and a gorgeous harbor. But it does have the Westender, the bar where the […]
Filters: We Could Use ‘Em
PJ O’Rourke stands out as one of the most articulate writers on the scene. Here is an interview with him from PR Week, about reporting and the public view of reporters. O’Rourke: If you would have told me 30 years ago that journalism could get worse, I would have called […]