Pauline from Slowtrav.com chatted with me recently from Hawaii. We shared ideas about how to increase profits in the web business. I gave her a good idea…one that has generated a lot of money for other sites. airport parking. She said that her model was a subscription to membership in […]
COPS battled to stop a RIOT last night at the opening of an IKEA furniture store. Dozens of officers were backed up by fire engines and ambulances as tempers raged in Edmonton, North London. One woman lost consciousness and many more were injured. Thousands turned up to grab special offers, […]
A guy from Connecticut wanted to buy tickets to see the Pats in the superbowl. He goes to eBay for the first time in his life. What luck! Some guy from Georgia was gonna go to the game, but he got transferred to Italy. He has the tickets up on […]
This article shows a fascinating close up photo of the 2003 ring worn by the Patriots after they won their last superbowl….the one before this sunday! Getting prepped to have TV cameras come to our GoNOMAD offices…going to be on TV on Friday, Channel 40 ABC news wants to discuss […]
Love it when the newspapers get fooled, probably by a blogger yet. From today’s Washington Post Styles section, courtesy of poynter.org, which is a great media insider site, if you like news about media… Correction A Feb. 5 Names & Faces item on an Evite to Michael Saylor’s birthday party […]
Thomas Friedman is back with his regular column in the NY Times and puts forth this smart idea about the huge rewards being now DOUBLED for the capture of Bin Laden and al Zarqawi. He thinks there are much better ways to spend the money: What I would do with […]
Today’s Miami Herald served up this gem. A Fort Lauderdale fisherman put his wedding ring around the bill of a sailfish that he caught off the Florida coast in 2002. And now he said he caught that same fish, complete with the ring around the bill! But everyone doesn’t believe […]
Visiting my daughter in Miami this weekend brought an opportunity to read the wonderful Miami Herald. This Knight Ridder stalwart is always full of interesting and well thoughtout reads. One front page story detailed how Social Security might not be in as bad shape as the Prez thinks. GWB’s figures, […]
The Army is experimenting with a new form of anethesiology, using nerve blocks to keep pain signals from traveling to the brain, thus eliminating the need to provide mind numbing morphine in the operating room. Procedures can take place with the patients fully awake. This from the latest issue of […]
There is a new way to outsource, use young rich Europeans who are on vacation, to fill the ranks of headset wearing telemarketers. With hundreds of employees yakking into headsets, Tecnovate’s New Delhi office looks like a typical Indian call center, except for one thing: Nearly 100 of these workers […]
A man in Salinas, California named John Cerney creates his own genre of billboard-sized art in fields throughout the Imperial Valley. He doesn’t like to display his creations, gigantic realistic photographs mounted on plywood, indoors. He would say no to even the inside of cavernous MassMOCA, in North Adams. No, […]
