Burning Platform, Anybody?
A guest column by Jonathan Salem Baskin, author of Branding Only Works on Cattle. There’s more bad news for marketers in every morning’s newspaper or splatter of news on the Internet: companies large and small are lowering sales forecasts for 2009. In general, that means marketing budgets are going to get cut. It’s a particularly ...
Further Evidence That Newspapers Will Someday Only Be Read on Trains and Toilets
The Tribune and Sun-Times once fought vicious daily readership battles in Chicago. Now, amid declining circulations and ad revenues, they’re just concentrating on turning a profit. Both the Tribune and Sun-Times had major news break today that demonstrates their struggles to stay afloat: 1) To help revitalize the suffering Chicago Tribune, radical redesigns are being ...
Daily Deadlines Did in the Newspaper Industry
Daily deadlines did in the newspaper industry is the insightful theory of technology gossip site Valleywag. “The pressure of getting to press, the long-practiced art of doom-and-gloom headline writing, the flinchiness of easily spooked editors all made it impossible for ink-stained wretches to look farther into the future than the next edition… The newspaper industry ...
Skyfire Eliminates My iPhone Envy
Last week, my iPhone envy practically disappeared when I downloaded the beta edition of Skyfire on my AT&T Tilt. Skyfire is a free web browser for mobile devices that delivers desktop-like and iPhone-like surfing experiences. With Skyfire, I get lightening-fast page loads and ALL video, audio, flash, ajax, java, etc. Even better, websites appear in ...
Great Moments in Photography That Makes You Woozy
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Fortune 500 Logos – Lots of Blue and Red
Listphile, a site after my own Power 150 heart, has a nice comprehensive collection of the Fortune 500 company logos. Lots of blue and red. Support Our Sponsor Share This
The Brooklyn Bridge Marks The Spot
The Brooklyn Bridge, arguably the greatest bridge in the world, marks the spot of perhaps the most important event in American history. On August 27, 1776, the biggest battle of the Revolutionary War began with more than 40,000 soldiers involved. Essentially, it was the Gettysburg of the Revolutionary War. The American colonists, inexperienced at war, ...
