Weather terms have been inexcusably lacking among communications professionals. We’ve favored a more ghastly lexicon featuring such words as “hit,” “beat,” “jump,” “kill” and “widow.”
January 9, 2013
I have long been a proponent of the tenet that, to move forward successfully, we must first look back. It’s crucial to understand the roots of today’s issues and even more important to understand the mistakes that have been made along the way so we don’t repeat them. Many of the political, social and cultural […]
December 10, 2012
Mayans notwithstanding, the calendar continues its relentless turning as we close another year of jubilation and tragedy, success and disappointment, and open another year of hope and opportunity. New Year’s Day always seems to hold such promise for changing the bad and expanding the good in our world, but rarely does the year roll out […]
September 14, 2012
Anyone with a smartphone today is likely to be so fluent with video that he rarely thinks about how news is captured for broadcast or streaming. It’s just “there.” But until the mid-1970s, local TV stations shot all their news stories on movie film. The teaser “Film at 11” became a cliché, and pre-Internet viewers actually […]
January 3, 2011
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats. The Leaning Tower of Pisa has 296 steps to […]
April 8, 2014
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