The Blogging Biz: It’s Not a Zero Sum Game
Uber Blogger Nick Denton threw a party at his SOHO loft. Denton, the man behind Gawker Media, a chain of large blogs that get a lot of mainstream press, impressed the west coasters and the buttoned down media with the copious cocktails and the swish hors d’oeuvres. Arianna Huffington reported […]
Filming My Entrance on a Scooter
This morning I drove to work on my yellow motorscooter while being filmed for WGBY, Springfield’s public TV station. It was for a segment of their home grown television series, “Making It Here,” that will air in January on Channel 57. It was a sunny morning, and Marla Zippay was […]
"I’ll Be Makin’ More than Dad Next Year!"
This is from a November 2004 profile in Fortune Magazine by Fred Vogelstein. You can bet all of the numbers are far higher now than ten months ago. Amazing! Jon Gales loves Google, but not for the reason you might think. It’s a terrific search engine, sure, but what Gales […]
You Can’t Always Get (the Change) You Want
Read a blog today about a traveling pair who went to Turkey. Below is their entry about Turkish money. “Two sets of money – Turkey is undergoing a change in currency. The old Lira was in millions. So if I buy a juice using the old money it comes to […]
You Can’t Ask Jeeves
Barry Diller has decided to let the butler go. He’s retiring this symbol of ‘Net Past, the Ask Jeeves cartoon character. The Street reports… “Jeeves is a reminder of the “playful, early days of the Internet,” said Rob Frankel, a Los Angles-based branding consultant. “A brand is not doing its […]
Jesse We Hardly Knew Ye
September’s Esquire included a profile of Jessie Jackson by John H. Richardson. “In the end, Jackson’s dilemma is like a curse in a fairy tale: Since he chose to base his power on fame, he’s perpetually compelled to chase fame. Yesterday he was in Florida, tomorrow he’ll be in Atlanta, […]
Plane Landing Drama on CNN
In four minutes a plane will be landing at LAX with a front wheel facing sideways. Paula Zahn just let us all take a commercial break before the scheduled emergency landing on the Airbus’s back wheels at 8:25pm est. This is a new twist, instead of watching a white bronco, […]
My New Website–Cute, Huh?
We’ve borne a new website here for our sister company Computer Cleaners. Joe designed a compact nice looking template and I created 14 pages of content, covering all aspects of computer viruses, how to avoid them, and many other details about our services. One feature is a cool Google Maps […]
Sayid Speaks..Ohh How Sexy!
My girlfriend loves Sayid. She swoons when he appears in the Lost TV show, each syllable out of his lips romantic and memorable. The man himself commented during the new season premier bash in Hawaii last week amidst frenzied fans: “It was in marked contrast to last year where the […]
Binn’s New Boston Book Blurs the Line
Alex Beam writes in the Boston Globe about a new magazine on the scene called “Boston Common,” written for the rich, which blurs the distinction between advertising and editorial. The new mag is published by Jason Binn, a 37-year-old BU grad who publishes similar books in Washington and New York […]
Tim Leffel’s Got the Gift
Tim Leffel is a wonderful writer who has the gift. He sent us a story for GoNOMAD about Nashville, and here is how he began…when people ask me what it takes to be a travel writer, I’ll tell them “just write as well as this guy.” “My home of Nashville, […]
Lawsuits Are Partly to Blame in New Orleans
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr isn’t somebody I’d usually quote. But his column today about Al Gore makes a compelling case against the environmental movement. “The very day he spoke (to the Sierra Club), a congressional task force reported that the levees that failed in New Orleans would have been raised […]
The Thrill of Throwing Cell Phones
At the post office this morning I found a discarded copy of Network World, where there was a story about a recent contest held in Finland involving hurling cell phones. The contest is simple, requiring only a basket of discarded and broken handsets, an open space, chairs for the three […]
An Idea from Bolivia: No Cars Day
I read this on a Bolivian blog today. Why don’t we have the nerve to do this? “Today is one of my favorites in Cochabamba, “Pedestrian Day”. On this Sunday (repeated once each year) there are no cars on the streets of this city of 700,000. No giant green Ford […]
Is Fox Switching Sides?
Tina Brown writes in the Washington Post that Rupert Murdoch is famous for switching sides for business reasons, and he just may be doing that against the Bush administration. “The difference between Fox News and Murdoch’s other news outfits is that Ailes is almost as formidable a figure as the […]
FEMA Website Pads Pat’s Coffers
Frank Rich doesn’t hold back when he writes about the transgressions of the Bush adminstration in his NY Times column. “When there’s money on the line, cronies always come first in this White House, no matter how great the human suffering. After Katrina, the FEMA Web site directing charitable contributions […]
Despite Imitators, Avedon was Inimitable
Philip Gefter wrote evocatively about photographer Richard Avedon in today’s NY Times. “Through Avedon’s eyes, female beauty is not viewed with distrust, as a collection of wiles and veils that can manipulate, obfuscate or seduce. In one photograph, the model Liz Pringle stands effortlessly poised in a boat, with the […]