The One Percent Solution
Time is money…. Yesterday’s posting of the Star Ledger desert murder piece caused a lot of interest and a lot of discussion. As I noted, I don’t think the piece is perfect. Far from it. I sent extensive notes...
Read moreA Mystery in the Desert
[blip.tv ?posts_id=1378976&dest=-1] The Star Ledger is very much alive. Having resolved their union issues, the paper is back in business, and fortunately the video project is remaining a main focus. Above, a 13-minute documentary on the disappearance of New...
Read moreThe Wizard of Omaha
You have to invest… I am reading The Snowball, the official Warren Buffett biography by Alice Schroeder. Buffett is some smart and impressive guy. Starting with nothing, in Omaha, Nebraska, he is now the wealthiest person in the US,...
Read moreStar Ledger Lives!
[blip.tv ?posts_id=1318322&dest=-1] The Star Ledger, New Jersey’s biggest newspaper seemed, for a while, to be in trouble. All newspapers are in trouble today, but parent Conde Nast was threatening to sell the paper unless the unions took a number...
Read moreWorld Book
The whole world on the shelf… When I was a kid my parents bought the World Book Encyclopedia. It was amazing. Particularly that thing on the human body, where they had those transparent pages of organs, bones, veins and...
Read moreBittman-Doe & Dough
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Ah9ES2yTU&hl=en&fs=1] This weekend, having just flown in from London, we got on a Jet Blue flight to Burlington, Vermont, where we spent the weekend at the Mark Bittman / Kelly Doe wedding. Bittman is an old friend of ours,...
Read moreListening To The Technology
What is it saying? Andy Grove, former Chairman and co-founder of Intel said, ‘listen to the technology. The technology wil tell you what to do” We are in an industry created by and dictated by technology. As the technology...
Read moreThis Just In…
Here’s the headline: End Of Discussion! Yesterday, our regular reader from Fox wrote to me: The day that paper, or any other in the country, covers the headline story of the day, every day, with a video version, is...
Read moreBack To Life
That’s life In 1936, Time Magazine publisher Henry R. Luce bought the rights to the name LIFE and founded a magazine that would come to dominate print journalism for nearly forty years. Luce turned LIFE into the world’s first...
Read moreThe Chosen
This just in….. Television did not appear as a gift from God. The Lord did not appear before Sarnoff, Paley and Goldensohn in the form of a burning bush and select them to carry His word forth. No one...
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