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Last Monday I enjoyed sitting in a cafe on Pleasant St. in Northampton MA and reading the Boston Globe. Too often coffee comes in takeaway cups, it was so much more civilized to read the paper and look at folks coming into the cafe. I read about Pakistan’s General Pervez […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
