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It’s always leaves me speechless when these CEOs talk like they are completely unaware that they are in the advertising business. Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes told an investor conference Friday that he doesn’t think it makes much sense for publishers to provide their content without a way to recover the production costs. [From Time [...]
It would be a cliche to call Sam Maloof an inspiration… he was that for far too many woodworkers and artisans to count. I was saddened to learn that Maloof died last thursday at the age of 93. Maloof called himself simply a woodworker but his influence on contemporary and arts and crafts furniture movements [...]
“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.” – Thucydides I see far too many news stories on Memorial Day that feature images of picnics and parades with a story line that “honors all that serve”. [...]
News magazines (Time, US News, Newsweek) have simple outlived their usefulness as a tool for informing and educating. The problem is in the name, none of these magazines are successfully presenting news and informed analysis that isn’t found on the web and typically well before being published in any of the above mentioned titles. It’s [...]
Pew study confirms that Craigslist is killing newspaper revenue… duh. 70% of Fannie Mae loan modification re-default, maintaining consistency with historical averages. We’re from the government and we are here to help… Disintermediating the food supply chain, using the Internet to support local agriculture. I am a big fan of this, buy local whenever possible, [...]
Schwarzenegger gives us a lesson in what borrowing means, in case you were not clear, and says he’s not a big fan of it, despite years of promoting it as a solution to California’s budget fiasco. Earlier today, the governor told reporters after a legislative prayer breakfast that he was not a big fan of [...]
Much talk about Twitter and business plans, considering I had an email exchange with a good friend on this very topic I thought I’d throw it out for public discussion. Advertising: I am skeptical of this because it puts a bullseye on them for user pushback. Plus, as social networks teach us, advertising on these [...]
This is really interesting, a case is headed to the SCOTUS in which the plaintiffs will argue that the PCAOB, created by Congress through the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, is unconstitutional. The law blogs say it’s a steep challenge for the plaintiffs, however the plaintiff’s counsel obviously feels differently and wrote an op-ed in the WSJ laying [...]
CA’s special election is tomorrow and having run the attached post twice already, I am running it again today. As I predicted then, we have yet to see any political advertising featuring the Governor and political leaders in Sacramento, which makes this story in the Chronicle almost amusing, almost except for the fact that the [...]
While copyright law is right in the crosshairs as Congress debates the demise of the newspaper business, the story is far more complex than that alone. What once seemed like a bad dream, that Congress would actually get involved, is actually turning into a bad dream… Congress is getting involved. Of all the ideas being [...]