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December 2007 - Posts
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 7:39 AM
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For many skiers, it is the rough scrape of a snowboard making a heelside turn and knocking down another mogul at high speed. Yes, yet another "ski only" resort has given in, leaving only three hoity toity no snowboards allowed resorts standing in the Read More...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:27 AM
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Second story this week in the Journal about PR, this time an A1 story about an unlikely PR pitchman and his success. Toilet Fish, Boyfriend in a Box, what's not to like about zany pitches delivered by a clean cut, clear-eyed, funny, non-pitchy, sincere Read More...
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Monday, December 17, 2007 7:30 AM
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Reading the Journal this a.m. and came across this story in the small business section, looking at the pros/cons for a small business to engage a PR firm. The story focuses on the concept of pay per placement as the solution, and profiles one small business Read More...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 7:29 AM
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It's all about traffic. See here how TechCrunch "reported" that Scoble was leaving PodTech, doing so while Robert was actually on stage, and managed to get the details wrong -- as in no job has been finalized yet. Robert is being a class guy here, but Read More...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:19 PM
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Because there are simply not enough hours in the day, I've been exploring creative ways of getting some additional running in, hopefully in a way that increases overall fitness while minimizing impact in the rest of the day. I've narrowed my options to Read More...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:04 AM
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The Economist is out with their latest edition, including their Tech Quarterly, which has some of the best writing/topics about the future of tech I find anywhere. There are some great stories in there, but the one that I like best was this one on the Read More...
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Sunday, December 09, 2007 8:51 PM
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David Carr has a great piece in the Monday NYT looking at the cost and value of investigative journalism. He makes (better) some of the same points I've been hitting on for years -- that there is a huge value in great investigative reporting, that this Read More...
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Sunday, December 09, 2007 8:16 PM
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Wow, he got some good pop over the last few days, with this post about Valleywag being wrong a ton and how to game the system, and this one about enterprise software. Of the two, I think the comparison between Valleywag and the UK press is the more amusing. Read More...
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Sunday, December 09, 2007 8:04 PM
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This annual issue of the magazine is always one of my favorites -- it's a good way to look back at the year through the lens of some of the more interesting or inane ideas that were inflicted on us all. Many of these showed up in either the mainstream Read More...
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 7:25 AM
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A couple of thoughts on this NYT article about advertising heart stents. First, I was one of the people who was able to see the game (NFL -- way to go dudes, screw your fans -- that always works out in the end, just check in on the music industry to see Read More...
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:42 PM
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As I caught up on my reading over the last few weeks, burning through issues of the Economist, the New Yorker, Wired, Fortune, Forbes, Rolling Stone, Portfolio, BusinessWeek etc. and so on, I discovered the single biggest threat to the future of business Read More...
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