Right Facts, Wrong Conclusion
Columnist and writer Michael Kinsley in the New York Times today opines, You Can’t Sell News by the Slice. Kinsley, like everyone else, is grappling with the search for the Holy Grail of how to keep newspapers alive.
Read moreTravel Channel Academy Results
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YttQxQfYYaY[/youtube] Jeff Day had never touched a video camera or an edit system before he walked into the Travel Channel Academy course in DC on Thursday. We put him through our extremely rigorous 4-day video bootcamp. We emphasize excellence....
Read moreOnly Yesterday
In 1981, KRON4 (of all people) ran the story embedded above. It was about a radical new experiment. A newspaper in San Francisco was putting its newspaper online.
Read moreTune in Tonight!
I am going to be a guest again on Curtis Sliwa’s show on ABC talk radio tonight at 11:20 pm. Take that, Jeff Jarvis! You may be invited to speak at Davos, but I am on Curtis!
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – DC
Yesterday we wrapped up the bootcamp for the staff of The Travel Channel and this morning we are starting another Travel Channel Academy here in DC at Travel Media HQ. As the economy comes under increasing pressure, ironically, the demand...
Read moreA New Industrial Revolution
Yesterday, Pat Younge, President and GM of The Travel Channel addressed the group here in DC. The group is made up of 40 of his employees, so they paid attention.
Read moreBenjamin Franklin – Web Videographer
Franklin was born into a relatively poor family of 17 children. His father was a soap maker, when soap was made from discarded animal fat. Not a noble or well paid profession. But Franklin quickly embraced the...
Read moreBack to DC
We left Nevis with plenty of time. You have to take a boat from Nevis to St. Kitts, which is where the airport is. The country is made up of two islands, Nevis and St. Kitts. As I say,...
Read moreA Most Demanding Job!
We are currently in St. Kitts and Nevis, where we have been hired as media consultants to the government.
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