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It’s not often we get to say simply, “I was right” but this morning I woke to some exciting news in an email blasted letter from Times Chairman and CEO Paul Tash. As I predicted in September here, the St Petersburg Times will in fact become the Tampa Bay Times.
The change [...]
Last week’s unfortunate news about another round of pay cuts at the St Pete Times prompted me to revisit a story I have been watching unfold for five years.
I can find nothing written and have only discussed this with a small number of people in the past five years it is time [...]
Facebook, often compared in user size to a country would be considered a monarchy, dictatorship or at best an oligarchy. How long are American small businesses safe to operate free of potentially huge taxes (i.e. fees) or other business killing regulations?
This week Burger King announced they would be replacing Miami’s Crispin Porter + Bogusky with agency McGarryBowen after a two month agency review process.
The change is not a surprising corporate reaction considering Burger King has consistently lost market share to McDonalds despite having a new revived “King” mascot that reached [...]
I found an article last week and decided today was a good day to post my thoughts on the subject.
Prompted by the Internet marketing sales pitch I’ve had to endure hearing at a nearby table while sitting in a Starbucks… both of which I try hard to avoid.
I understand we’re in a tough [...]
Last year some friend discussed on Facebook the merits of the Cruzan 9 rum campaign that ran in select cities. Because Tampa was one of the cities targeted and has a love affair with pirates the subject was particularly of interest. I can’t find the comment string (Facebook sucks at archiving) but I did find [...]
I saw the Zombie Apocalypse post in my Facebook news feed this morning and did not fully realize at first that I was in fact on the CDC website.
There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e [...]
Came across the article, Why Google Succeeded Where Other Search Engines Failed, from an Inc. Magazine Facebook post and was immediately struck with an irony to share.
Aside from better search results the following is strongly credited for Google’s success.
…there was another key reason: a stubborn refusal to accept the orthodox view [...]
November 3, 2010 – United States – In an unprecedented come-from-nowhere campaign strategy Facebook swept the 2010 midterm election clearly demonstrating the social network’s flexibility and dominance over other social networks.
Foursquare was an early favorite of political and social media gurus as early as June. A grassroots push had formed to help Foursquare with [...]
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