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Ben's Latest Makeover 14 Aug 2013 | 10:07 pm
David Wolman of The New Yorker takes a look at the reasons behind the two-year delay in the introduction of the re-designed $100 bill. Apparently, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, or BEP, as it's...
In Memory of George Duke 9 Aug 2013 | 06:28 am
George Duke George Duke passed away this week. George who? George Duke, the keyboard virtuoso who backed-up Frank Zappa, and who subsequently came into his own teaming with Flora Purim, Stanley Clark...
Omnicom-Publicis: A PR Scorecard 31 Jul 2013 | 02:53 am
Now that the dust has settled from the biggest ad industry merger announcement ever, let's take a moment to reflect on the net takeaway from the news. First, I should say that the announcement, IMHO, ...
Chipotle's Foot-Long Faux Pas 25 Jul 2013 | 09:19 pm
Last Sunday, I retweeted Samantha Murphy of Mashable's tweet with a link to her colleague Seth Fiegerman's story "Has Chipotle's Twitter Account Been Hacked?" Everything about this is strange. Has Ch...
Innovation @NYTimes 20 Jul 2013 | 01:53 am
Few industries have endured as much tumult and disruption as the purveyors of journalism. Within that space, big metro newspapers have likely suffered the greatest as readers and advertisers abandon t...
Content is King, Distribution is Queen 10 Jul 2013 | 03:33 am
The hype surrounding native advertising, sponsored content and/or promoted content is deafening. Online publishers, faced with diminished digital ad dollars and un-engaging ad creative, have turned to...
A VC Getting Its PR On 2 Jul 2013 | 10:23 pm
I read with considerable interest the news this week in which venture capital firm First Round Capital has started "a publishing platform to share secrets of startup success." It follows the company's...
SCOTUS Spins The Media 28 Jun 2013 | 12:19 am
As legal news goes, it doesn't get much bigger than what transpired in the U.S. Supreme Court this week. Legal pundits went ballistic when the politically partisan wing of SCOTUS decimated Martin Luth...
Tech Tales from New York 19 Jun 2013 | 07:42 pm
Andrew Rasiej on Stage at the 10th Annual Personal Democracy Forum Sandwiched in between the 10th anniversary gathering of the Personal Democracy Forum, the annual who's who of those intersecting tec...
Google Goes On The Offensive 12 Jun 2013 | 12:28 am
Edward Snowden (Photo: VentureBeat) The NSA revelations from one strange cat named Edward Snowden and his enabler, the lawyer turned political activist turned commentator turned journalist Glenn Gree...
