Daily Archives: Thursday, May 6, 2004

Customer magazine case study: While I’ve been known to disagree whenever a publishing “agent” from the UK says their custom magazines are “more creative” or whatever than those from the U.S., I’ll admit that British marketers have a more enlightened … Continue reading →

Troubling “stealth tax” development: Bill Hobbs just e-mailed me that Tennessee lawmakers are one step closer to taking away from small businesses one of the key benefits of last year’s federal tax cuts designed to spur investment in capital equipment. … Continue reading →

Jeff goes crotchety: Jeff Jarvis points to a NY Times article that has as its headline, “The Blog Generation Takes Up Its Trowels” and notes that the story has only a lame link to blogging (one of the young, urban … Continue reading →

Alice online: Check out the “official” website of my friend, Alice Randall at the easy-to-remember URL, www.alicerandall.com. It will be morphing into a weblog (thus, the Typepad platform) but already is a great resource to find information about her new … Continue reading →

<b>Hobbs hope?</b> If the Tennessee Legislature has the wisdom (as <a href=”http://billhobbs.com/hobbsonline/003796.html”>it appears may be gaining</a>) to nix the efforts to place a “stealth tax” on the benefits coming from a federal tax incentive designed to encourage small business to … Continue reading →

Glowing shelter-book concept: I don’t know how I missed Atomic Ranch when it was a vaporzine, however, the first issue appears to be available (where, I don’t know, but you can buy a subscription at Amazon.com). I think the concept … Continue reading →

Rafat rants: Man. Rafat Ali is steamed. He “rants” (his word, not mine) righteously (my word, not his) that ASME is clueless about the National Magazine Award it hands out in the online category and that it doesn’t know how … Continue reading →