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Did you watch last night’s episode of The Bachelorette?  After weeks of anticipation, Ashley finally went on her hometown dates with the remaining four bachelors, Ben, Constantine, JP, and Ames.  Every visit to the ‘in-law families’ was like a scene one would imagine when thinking of life in America – everyone gathered to meet the Continue Reading →

According to Advertising Age: Rupert Murdoch is keeping the throttle wide open on crisis-control efforts in an attempt to limit the damage from the News of the World’s hacking scandal… Now he is apologizing to Britain via a newspaper ad headlined “We are sorry” — perhaps foreshadowing what he will say when he testifies before Continue Reading →

The people responsible for this year’s batch of Emmy Award nominations made their selections last Thursday. Now comes the inevitable opine wave over who got in, who was left out and who should be out. Over who got in, given the incredible season of cable drama series just past, the nominees in that category should Continue Reading →

Ownership has been one of the pillars of the American dream. Your first car, the house with the picket fence, the bigger car and the bigger house. That pillar is crumbling. There’s the financial crisis, a flood of defaults and foreclosures placing whole states under water. More importantly, there are all these new services that Continue Reading →

There are few times in the economic history of man when so many people have been led astray by a meme as misguided as “long tail marketing”.  Considering that this ill-advised philosophy draws its intellectual inspiration – “build it and they will come” – from a Kevin Costner fantasy film, Field of Dreams, it should Continue Reading →

Originally posted at MediaBizBloggers.com Frank Rich made his debut in New York magazine in its July 11th issue with a brilliantly written, well-reported, and penetrating article titled “Obama’s Original Sin,” and it was a Ruthian home run. Rich’s theme was: “The president’s failure to demand a reckoning from the moneyed interests who brought the economy Continue Reading →

Advertising/PR practitioner Jorg Pierach posted a blog titled “Newspapers Should Get Out of the Opinion Business” that got picked up by Romenesko and Jason Hirschhorn’s MediaReDEFined, so it got noticed and created some healthy debate. Here, in part, is what Pierach of advertising/PR/marketing firm Fast Horse wrote: If you want my opinion, it’s time for Continue Reading →

Originally posted at: NY Video Game Critics Circle Recently on Live Digital, Shelly Palmer’s NBC television program, I talked about a new Android phone with 4G T-Mobile service. The G2X from LG has a dual core processor, which makes it really quite speedy for games. That means car racing games don’t drop frames, and it Continue Reading →

Did you watch last night’s episode of The Bachelorette which ended with an interview with previous season’s bachelorette Emily Maynard?  Emily talked openly about her struggles with Bachelor Brad Womack and confirmed the end of their relationship.  Amid the tears and knee-jerk moments, Emily repeated quite a few times how much she had gone into Continue Reading →

As many of you who subscribe to my Shift Age Newsletter know, I co-authored a book with Jeff Cobb on transforming education. Shift Ed: A Call to Action for Transforming K-12 Education was published in April by Corwin Press. Now, three months later, I am happy to report that the response from the education community Continue Reading →