Friday’s best
Boring blogs? CNET’s Greg Sandoval writes about the challenges — and mixed results — of newspaper blogs. Unplugging. Mark Glaser rounds up readers’ input to the question of whether it is a good idea...
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Getting revved up for the World Cup
Are you excited about the World Cup, which starts this Friday? I am. Admittedly, I’m a pay-attention-to-soccer-every-four-years kind of fan, but that puts my in good stead with most of my fellow...
View ArticlePaperboy!
We all love stories. They are part of the essence of our humanness. We connect to our past through stories. We develop and maintain families and friendships through stories. We often imagine our future...
View ArticlePodcast check
Back in the mid-1990s when I did some work in — gasp! — radio, our station required regular “air checks.” A DJ or sports announcer would have to present a — again, dating myself — cassette tape to a...
View Article‘CQ + PQ > IQ’
That’s “Curiosity Quotient” plus “Passion Quotient” is greater than “Intelligent Quotient.” … so says Thomas Friedman, New York times op-ed columnist and author of the best seller The World Is Flat,...
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An online ‘life’
I had an interesting lunchtime discussion with several colleagues yesterday about the extent to which we “live” online. Here’s a sampling of the participants: Colleague 1: A graphic designer who uses...
View Article‘It’s all about talking to people’
Here are two good podcast episodes I’ve listened to in the last 12 hours: Podcast : Understanding Blog Marketing Feedster founder Scott Johnson offers an excellent 15-minute podcast on the keys to blog...
View ArticleMySpace ain’t just for the kiddies
comScore is reporting that 51.6 of MySpace users in August were over 35. I’m simply not buying those numbers. Not a chance they’re accurate. But what I am buying is the general notion that the MySpace...
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Following Colin Browning’s vacation … in Antarctica
Until I caught wind of Colin Browning’s vacation plans 10 days ago, it never actually occurred to me that someone could take a vacation in Antarctica. I mean … Antarctica? The coldest place on earth...
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