July 20th, 2003


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Required reading

poor rexblog’s almanac: While I always list on this page the books I’m currently reading, I’ve rarely mentioned them in a post. However, I’m making an exception for the wonderful book I’m currently enjoying that centers on most of the topics I spend a lot of time professionally (and passionately) with these days: small business and entrepreneurship, early American life, and magazine publishing. I’m just a hundred or so pages into Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson, but can easily predict it will be a blockbusting success. I can also suggest quite confidently that, had they been available, Ben Franklin would have been a blogger.





July 20th, 2003
All in the family

All in the family: When Lou Dobbs asks what he’s most proud of, McGraw-Hill CEO Terry McGraw says, Business Week. “[It] represents what I call the calling card for The McGraw-Hill Cos. It is a wonderful brand that is the highest level of journalistic capability,” (via iwantmedia.com)





July 20th, 2003
Cheap shot

Cheap shot: When a publisher says, “regardless of the economy, there’s rarely a shorage of people buying and selling Ferraris and Bentleys,” it doesn’t pass my “smell test.” (Smell test is my favorite new term.) Thomas duPont says this in an AP story today about his duPont Registry Registry Magazine:

“We don’t care about having millions of subscribers…We want subscribers with millions.”

Great line, but I don’t quite buy it.