Archive for October, 2006

New Inventions

October 28, 2006

Over the years, I have conceived of many get-rich-slow products the world needs. Such as:
DamnItAll: what to take when things just aren’t going right (I’ve been popping quite a bit of DamnItAll lately.)
BoogerBGone: a strip of super-absorbent and disposable cloths to catch those unattractive nasal drips that plague riders on ski chair lifts.
The Cape Ann [...]

I’m Free

October 16, 2006

[please fill in rest of Who guitar riff here] , I’m Free!!
But thinking in new directions this time. See this Jeff Jarvis post on journalists building brands [ahem]. He wasn’t quite sure how this works for editors, but I think I know. Leastways, that’s where I’m thinking right now. And aside from 3AM panic attacks [...]

Monarch Butterflies

October 9, 2006

I’ve been so knee-deep in business press stories this summer, I forgot to look up and read interesting stuff. Like, how come I have never seen so many monarch butterflies as I have this summer? A really quick web search came up with a diary of monarchs in Iowa, but here in New England their [...]