Fresh Blood
Ready to make content…. This afternoon we will graduate another 40 Travel Channel Journalists and send them out to start creating content for The Travel Channel. We run 24 of these Travel Channel Academies each year. There are now...
Read moreWhat Wouldn’t Google Do?
Marcel Duchamps Nude on a Staircase…. Reading Jeff Jarvis’ book ‘What Would Google Do?’ I am more convinced than ever that he has painted the way the world is going to go. The ‘google’ approach brings incredible efficiencies to...
Read moreTCA New York
Once again, we initiate a Travel Channel Academy in New York. Starting today, 40 eager potential Travel Channel Journalists will go through our intensive 4-day training session. We’ll keep you posted on how it goes. This morning, Pat Younge,...
Read moreNot In My Book
Something you can believe in…. OK. Like many people I might, from time to time, google my own name to see how many hits I get. Just once or twice…. (38,531). And I might take a look at Wikipedia...
Read moreGoogle School?
Required reading When I was much younger I had a girlfriend who was and still is a curator at the Louvre in Paris. She was very much the product of a classical European education, including private school in Paris...
Read moreSimpler and Simpler, Dumber and Dumber
1. Teaching Math In 1960s A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit ? 2. Teaching Math In 1970s A logger sells a truckload of...
Read moreA Day in the Life of a VJ
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Read moreThe Soloist – A Documentary on the Death of Newspapers
Emmy for best documentary? Flying trans-Atlantic once a week gives you two things: -Lots of frequent flyer miles -A chance to see just about every movie there is. Virgin Atlantic offers a wide range of films, and being captive...
Read moreThis England
Think Yiddish…. Act British…….Dress Italian. In the past few months we have become regular commuters between New York and England. Once for a business meeting, once to give a speech, once to do a ‘house-exchange’ in the Cotwsolds, and...
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