Kevin Coughlin wrote a piece for Newhouse news service sunday about Google’s special blend of young and old employees, that has propelled them to the top of the internet, and pushed their stock up in the $300 range. Rob Pike is one stand-out who was profiled. “Google treats employees like […]

Lisa Baertlein writes on Reuters, “Nearly one-fifth of Web users who read newspapers now prefer online to offline editions, according to a new study from Internet audience measurement company Nielsen//NetRatings. The first-time study found that 21 percent of those Web users now primarily use online versions of newspapers, while 72 […]

Last week was a big one for GoNOMAD. We began the week with news that the Wall Street Journal included a mention of us in a story about where to find info. about family vacations. Then Channel 40 ABC news came up to interview me for the 5:30 news. Later […]

Joseph Elwell, 37, has a problem on his chest. It all started when he decided to get a tattoo. A troubling tattoo. Police in Medford arrested him last week after he tried to run a cop over with his car. He was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. It […]

Windfarms off the Danish coast. 

A month ago I mentioned some Nantucketers were going to find out first hand what it’s like living next to a windfarm. So they went, courtesy of a lobbying group, to Scandinavia and met Danes who live near these facilities. Ack.net, my favorite source of Nantucket news, said this. “After […]

All night I tossed and turned, thinking about what time I needed to wake up. I had agreed to do a phone interview on Springfield’s WHYN-560 AM at 7 am, and these guys get up early. I kept imagining I had missed it, then dozing off, then waking up suddenly. […]

In Milwaukee, the City Magazine snagged a former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter, who left the paper for the mag, and now tells all the inside secrets of the state’s largest daily. “In The Trenches For someone who has never worked at a daily paper, there is no preparation for the […]