Seth Godin has a great post on his blog about the NY Times struggle to remain profitable (and if the Times is struggling so is everyone else) and some advice about where they missed the boat. He concludes with this point that is really relevant for any business to ask [...]

Too many people waste their time straining to do things that aren’t right for them. Too many managers ask the wrong people to do the wrong job– the job that isn’t a good fit. Too many companies focus on doing business outside their core competency. How do you solve this [...]

Richard Prince from the Maynard Journalism institute called me last night to ask about commercialappeal.com’s coverage of Isaac Hayes death. He quoted me extensively on our breaking news coverage in his blog/column. It’s about half-way down the page. We owned the breaking coverage of the Soul Man’s death, but everyone [...]

Since we moved to Memphis, we’ve visited several different churches as we are looking for a church home for our family. When I’m investigating the church the first thing I check out is the church website for some basic information about the church. So the church’s site gives me the [...]

“I was surprised that Time.com comes out in a paper copy” -Brian Williams, Anchor of the NBC Nightly News (known for his comedy skills on SNL). I guess Brian is just like me and gets all of his new online, too.

The Writer’s Guild has been on strike for a couple of weeks now and we are beginning to see the results of the strike as more and more network shows finish their season early, never debut the season or go into reruns. Frankly, I’m a fan of network prime time [...]

The 15k circulation Shelby Star has developed the Star Car to make provide their reporters with multimedia tools and make their online presence known. The $60,0000 SUV (lower on the page) features GPS tracking, wifi cloud, wifi camera, dash webcams, video cameras, scanners and multiple laptops. For some reason this [...]

The other day I logged into my mortgage company’s site to check what we owed on our house that we are selling. I probably haven’t logged into that site in a year or two. The next day I had phone call from my mortgage company checking to see if everything [...]

Think about it…

Innovator’s and entrepreneurs need to follow Google’s advice… “At Google, we really focus on failing wisely,” said Matt Glotzbach, Google Enterprise’s product management director, at the Interop New York conference. “There is no penalty for failure. In fact we encourage it because if you’re not failing it means you’re probably [...]