Monthly Archives: May 2010

You can’t plug up BP’s gushing problems with PR and “crisis communications”

While there may be debate over the precise volume of oil spewing from BP’s ruptured Gulf of Mexico well, it’s safe to estimate that a record amount of arm-chair “crisis communications” slickness is spewing forth from an army (or, in … Continue reading

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Things I keep learning about magazines (and much more) by blogging

If you’re attending,my session is next Wednesday. Next Wednesday, I’m speaking in Toronto at MagNet, the annual conference jointly produced by a several organizations related to the magazine industry in Canada. (I wonder why such groups in the U.S. can’t … Continue reading

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How to fix the annoying way your iPad drops the wifi signal of a Sprint Overdrive

Thank you, James Kendrick of jkOnTheRun for posting the fix for an annoying problem I’ve had with my iPad when trying to use it with with a recently acquired Sprint Overdrive, a “mobile wifi” device. I italicize trying because the … Continue reading

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Hey, wait: Google’s economist left out the “on the other hand”

Google today issued a report (pdf) that claims $54 billion is a “conservative estimate of Google’s economic impact on businesses across the U.S.” The report breaks down how they arrived at those numbers and even provides a state-by-state analysis of … Continue reading

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Google collects a 32% sales commission on ads it sells for non-Google websites

Today, “in the spirit of greater transparency with AdSense publishers,” Google posted a message on its AdSense Blog that 68% of the revenue that Google collects for ads appearing on AdSense partners websites (i.e., websites that are not owned by … Continue reading

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