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Thanks for stopping by! Hey, why don't you do what all the cool kids are doing and subscribe to my RSS feed? You know you want to, so go ahead, be bad, be very very bad... :) Thanks. As most of you know, Jerry Yang co-founder of Yahoo! has taken back [...]

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I posted a story last week about AT&T announcing that they will be partnering with the movie and music industry associations to hand over customers who use AT&T as their broadband provider who have been identified as downloading illegal or copyrighted movies or music. In simple words, AT&T will be spying on their customers [...]

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I hope everyone had a lovely weekend. I had a weekend that I will most likely never forget. I did something that I had doubts that I would ever do in my lifetime. This weekend I proposed marriage to my girlfriend Leigh and to my amazement, she said yes! One of the things [...]

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One of the more interesting things I have learned in my almost 15 years in this business is that this industry is much smaller than you might think. Since leaving school, I have worked in six different states across this country and what amazes me is how the people who I have worked with [...]

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I was in the middle of writing a post on how our individual reputations as marketers in this industry truly matters and how small this industry can actually be; when I spotted a post over at 10,000 Marshmallows about a report done by Wal-Mart’s old agency GSD&M. The report said that Wal-Mart as a [...]

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I have been following an interesting saga taking place over at PC World magazine. Last week, Wired reported that “Editor-in-Chief Harry McCracken quit abruptly because the company’s new CEO, Colin Crawford, tried to kill a story about Apple and Steve Jobs.” According to reports, PC World was writing a column that was going to only [...]

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We have had some lengthy discussions and comments from my previous post on the soap opera that has been playing out on the Imus-Rutgers Women’s basketball team. Well, the final straw broke when CBS announced yesterday that he will be fired from his radio show. This was announced shortly before Imus went to [...]

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MSNBC announced that they will be dropping the simulcast of Imus’ radio show following the disparaging and racist remarks Imus said about the Rutgers Women’s basketball team. Now before everyone gets their panties in a bunch from the title of this post, let me make a couple of things clear. First off, I [...]

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There has been a great deal of discussions in the blogosphere regarding PayPerPost. If you are not familiar with this service, the company offers an opportunity for bloggers to write articles based on PayPerPost’s “opportunities”. Once the blogger completes an article and it gets accepted by PPP, the blogger can post the article [...]

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TechCrunch posted a great article a couple of days ago focused on Google’s new PPA (Pay Per Action) service. I don’t think this should come as surprise to anyone in this industry. You knew eventually Google would have to do it. If it helps smaller businesses with issues like click fraud than [...]

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