Holly Hughes
Holly Hughes, editor of the popular Best Food Writing annual book series, discussed how she got involved with the project and her thoughts on modern food writing.
Brad Stone of the New York Times hits the nail on the head today when he writes of Facebook: “Only designated friends or people in users’ networks can see their full profile pages, in contrast to the chaotic freedom on MySpace, the site owned by the News Corporation that is Facebook’s main rival.” Chaos vs….
For readers in the Boston area, there’s what should be a great event on February 26 put on by PRSA’s chapter in that city. It will cover social media issues, like the social media release, how to communicate with bloggers, and how to deal with the medium generally. It’s got a tremendous roster of PR…
Usually when a presidential election concludes, the campaign goes dormant for a few years while much of the party-building and other grassroots activities switches to the national party committee and state and local campaigns. Not the Obama campaign. They have decided — probably wisely — to try to continue to harness the energy of its…
New York Times reports today on the future of cell phone advertising. It notes that a number of companies and carriers are exploring how best to do advertising in this medium where the providers already know a fair bit about their customers. The article is generally thin on details, but it certainly provokes my thinking….
A colleague shared this video with me earlier today and it certainly got me thinking. I have embedded it below, and it is worth the six minutes or so it takes to watch it through. It demonstrates several things: the world is changing online video helps make ideas more compelling statistics are powerful tools As…
A few months ago, I picked up a copy of Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston, but I didn’t get a chance to read it until this past weekend. Turns out to be an excellent read. At first, I was skeptical of the notion of reading transcripts of interviews rather than a coherent story, but it…