Monthly Archives: July 2010
Sad days for the “ink-stained wretches”
I’m a newspaper guy at heart. Even though I abandoned the abject poverty of the newspaper business many years ago for the quasi-prosperous world of public relations and reputation management, I remain, at my core, a newspaper guy who loves the news. This is why it is so painful for me to read of a …
As Serious as a Heart Att… Wait… It Was a Heart Attack
In rather quiet and innocuous fashion I learned on Facebook this Monday that an associate had had a heart attack. He sent a note on his birthday saying he was glad to be alive. Judging from the outpouring of messages, I was hardly the only one to learn the news that way. In the past …
Better to admit a mistake than live with one
When White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took to his podium Wednesday, he had a different message than you normally hear from the second-most visible person in our government. He wasn’t offering a report on the progress with the Gulf oil spill cleanup. He wasn’t trumpeting President Obama’s efforts to reform the banking and financial …
Rise of the E-Reader … It Was Only a Matter of Time
This morning, while reading The New York Times on my Blackberry in a cab, I saw a headline that was bound to appear sooner or later, “E-books Top Hardcovers at Amazon.” It was more of a “hmmm” than a “wow” moment. Of course it was bound to happen. The Kindle certainly set the stage for …
LEED: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
It’s curious that this blog continues to get hits from searches along the lines of, “What does LEED platinum mean?” Those results on Google could only relate back to a post from September of 2009, “LEEDing the Way to Sustainability.” Dang, I wish we could bottle that logic string of words, links and subject matter …