Whoever came up with the tongue-in-cheek talking fish advertisements on MBTA trains for Legal Sea Foods should be given a nice fat raise, maybe an award and certainly a promotion after the Boston Globe put them on page one and Fox 25 ran a two-minute video package focusing on the ads. You can’t buy ad [...]
With all the work we did over the years to prevent rioting — you all should read this: Mayor Thomas M. Menino today joined city officials to ask Boston to celebrate responsibly this Sunday when the New England Patriots take on the New York Giants in pursuit of a Super Bowl championship and a perfect [...]
I simply could have not worded it better than Nick Daniloff in regards to the Northeastern University school of journalism not renewing the contacts of two of their professors, Gladys and Lincoln McKie. “This is unbelievably bad administrative management,” Daniloff told the News May 23. “I have to ask myself, ‘Do I want to work [...]
Bacardi announced a series of concerts to take place in 2007. The announcement came during the Bacardi Global Gathering, Labor Day Weekend in Las Vegas at the Palms Casino. The celebrity studded event featured Papa Roach, Tommy Lee and Tiesto. The first in this series of events was held in Miami in March and brought [...]
Clyde Priest started delivering milk in 1936 at age 10 to support his family during a difficult economic time in American history. He retired July 20, 70 years after starting his career in a quickly disappearing marketing profession. According to CNN, Clyde the milkman represented the very best characteristics of sales while serving as a [...]
Watch this video. This is a preview of tomorrow’s discussion, so take a look. This was first introduced to me by Dan Kennedy. It’s a few years old but it’s thus far deadly accurate–except for the references to the dying Friendster which just as easily can be MySpace. Tomorrow I will be posting an article [...]
Chelsea Snyder, a fellow contributer to Blogcritics put together a great piece of writing Tuesday that is worth mentioning. The article performs a criminal analysis of the author by tracing her through her school yearbook by “analyzing” different portions of it. Entries include: Page 32 — A quote blurb is featured by Snyder in response [...]
In a previous post, I discussed the folly of my brand new, military specification compliant, Motorola i560. I may have also ranted for a brief moment about the number of calls I drop with my Nextel service and stated that it was a contention for another article. This is that article. I returned from the [...]
Representative Pete King, (R) NY, wants the editor and the publisher of the New York Times prosecuted. His reason? The New York Times, followed by the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal and other papers ran articles disclosing a federal intelligence initiative to monitor international financial transactions. The program, designed to root out possible [...]
CNNMoney’s Jonathan Schienberg is reporting that AT&T has made a change to their privacy policy. A phrase saying AT&T “does not access, read, upload or store data contained in or derived from private files without the members’ authorization” was removed. Also in the revision, AT&T claimed that it has the obligation to cooperate with government [...]