OK – so the U.S. got downgraded by S&P (AA+) for the first time in its history. Whatever. It’s all just a game anyway. Most talking heads throughout the weekend will say Monday will be a bloodbath on Wall Street and that many investors will…
I did it! So, my mom sent me a check for $50 because she wanted to buy a piece of my growing media empire. (The growing part is a yet-to-launch blog on the insane nightlife of La Canada, CA called “La Canada Nights”.) I told…
So, I went to TechCrunch moments ago – and was greeted by this: Maybe it’s a test to see how many ads you can stuff on one page and still make it look “classy”. They seem to be breaking their own advertising rules of ads…
As soon as I read The Daily Beast story about Facebook’s alleged smear (whisper) campaign against Google, I immediately thought of the scene in “All The President’s Men” with all the newspaper editors sitting around deciding which stories to run the next day. When Watergate…
I believe Groupon is headed for failure. Even if they somehow survive, I fear they are doomed to be a company we all view with complete indifference. I don’t write this lightly. I was amazed and sort of proud that they had the balls to…
Does this mean an ad will cost $40 million dollars per spot? So, I was just on Facebook – along with 800+ million of my friends (soon to be be 7.3 billion) – and couldn’t help notice the sidebar banner ad pitch to “Advertise On…
I wanted to call this entry “Y Combinator Is A Bullshit Idea” but the ads on the side wouldn’t have displayed due to the “bullshit” in the title. So, I just read the Christopher Steiner article “The Disruptor In The Valley” at Forbes.com (which is…
Here is a companion to “All The Facebook’s Men” – the actual scene from the original screenplay of “All The President’s Men” INT. WASHINGTON POST – CONFERENCE ROOM NATIONAL EDITOR: –let me tell what happened when I was having lunch today at the Sans Souci–…