Posts Tagged "media"

Some Thoughts on Advertising

Posted by on Feb 13, 2012 in marketing | Comments Off

Some Thoughts on Advertising

I'm not saying that small and midsize business clients should advertise during the THE BIG GAME, or take out two page spreads in the New York Times. Like real estate, advertising is all about location, location, location.

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Too Much Content?

Posted by on Jun 10, 2010 in Technology | 2 comments

Too Much Content?

ESPN.com is skirting the boundaries of what's really possible for the human brain to process, or at least the human brain of a guy in his late-30s.

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Wither Newspapers?

Posted by on Feb 26, 2009 in Culture | 6 comments

In the final season of HBO’s “The Wire” Gus Haynes, the city editor at the fictionalized Baltimore Sun is outside on a smoke break after an announcement of buyouts, talking about papers and why he went into the business. In essence he said he did so because his father, when Gus was young, was never to be disturbed until he’d read the paper and finished his coffee. Anything that could command such attention became a powerful force in Gus’s life and he knew that he wanted to be a part that world. Written by newspaper-men, the final season of “The Wire” was a paean to the old school newspaper, as much as it was a gritty cop drama...

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