Farewell Len Shlain
Good-bye Len My friend Leonard Shlain died last week. I will miss him. It is not often that you read a book that changes the way you see the world. Perhaps only a handful in a lifetime. So it...
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Ready to make content…. This afternoon we will graduate another 40 Travel Channel Journalists and send them out to start creating content for The Travel Channel. We run 24 of these Travel Channel Academies each year. There are now...
Read moreWhat Wouldn’t Google Do?
Marcel Duchamps Nude on a Staircase…. Reading Jeff Jarvis’ book ‘What Would Google Do?’ I am more convinced than ever that he has painted the way the world is going to go. The ‘google’ approach brings incredible efficiencies to...
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Once again, we initiate a Travel Channel Academy in New York. Starting today, 40 eager potential Travel Channel Journalists will go through our intensive 4-day training session. We’ll keep you posted on how it goes. This morning, Pat Younge,...
Read moreNot In My Book
Something you can believe in…. OK. Like many people I might, from time to time, google my own name to see how many hits I get. Just once or twice…. (38,531). And I might take a look at Wikipedia...
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Required reading When I was much younger I had a girlfriend who was and still is a curator at the Louvre in Paris. She was very much the product of a classical European education, including private school in Paris...
Read moreSimpler and Simpler, Dumber and Dumber
1. Teaching Math In 1960s A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit ? 2. Teaching Math In 1970s A logger sells a truckload of...
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