Update 8/23/07: I'm alive and well and still living in Northern Virginia, in a suburb of Washington DC.
Looking at another financial news startup as well as a news Web site idea that's been nagging me for more than a year.
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March 31, 2007: Next!
It's been fun working [...]
The secret weapon powering Stuart Skorman's new company is not computer technology. It's people.
Browse the help wanted ads on Craigslist.org and you'll see he's hiring video store clerks for Cinemasaurus, his fifth startup (Read all about them.) Skorman wants the video buffs to create [...]
The Washington Post's (WPO) Web site is expected to introduce a revamped home page that this afternoon. Jim Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com, hopes it will finally give some visibility to video reporting.
"Our video team produces some of the best, most critically acclaimed work on [...]
Compact Discs are not dead yet, says Daniel Gross at Slate.
He points out Starbucks (SBUX) is starting a new label and Amazon's (AMZN) pushing classical sales to capitalize on the death of brick and mortar outlets.
"What we are witnessing is not so much the imminent death of CDs [...]
Wired is on the lookout for a couple of writers, "To cover the Bay Area tech business scene for our new business blog, Epicenter." If you're interested send a 200-word blog post about a Bay area company and wait.
On the other hand, for fast, [...]
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Disclaimer: I own shares of Apple.
It's going to get even more crowded out there on the Presidential campaign trail. I'm not just talking about what would happen if Fred Thompson or Michael Bloomberg declares they're in the race.
No, Arianna Huffington is seeking to recruit - not hire - large groups of citizen journalists from around [...]
People attending the American Society of Newspaper Editors conference in Washington this week may have to think about tweaking the section of their resumes where they list "Memberships."
The group’s President thinks it is worth studying whether to drop the word "newspaper" from its name. ASNE [...]
Verizon Communications (VZ) will add "hyper local" news and information Friday to its fiber optic service in the suburbs of Washington,D.C. The company said FiOS1 will be “a whole new
breed of TV channel.”
About two months ago, Verizon announced it hired Michelle Webb, a former ABC News producer [...]
A Microsoft (MSFT) Web site for uber-geeks went live in April 2004 and, according to Wired magazine, immediately it became clear "The fears of lawyers, marketers, and PR consultants would, in fact be realized - and it would be good for the company."
Thanks to the [...]
