The AP hooks up with Microsoft to battle Google

Tom Curley, CEO of The Associated Press was in Hong Kong recently where he would tell anyone who would listen that the times are a changing and Google had better watch out. During the Xinhua Beijing ... Read >

FTC guidelines take aim at guerilla marketing as well

While a lot of attention surrounding the new guidelines being issued by the FTC is regarding bloggers there is also another who section of advertisers that is going to get hit hard by these ... Read >

FTC to celebs: you are responsible for what you’re hawking

As I delve further into this whole FTC mess and their new guidelines, which you can download and read all 81 pages yourself, one thing is clear – celebrities are screwed. Now whether or ... Read >

AP offers to sell the hot news while it’s still hot

Hot news available to the highest bidder or the one’s most willing to cough up the money to be first in line. That’s the newest money making idea to come out of the Associated ... Read >

Condé Nast closing Gourmet Magazine

Condé Nast today announced that it was immediately closing the well regarded Gourmet Magazine due to a massive decline in advertising revenues. The folding of Gourmet Magazine comes as Condé Nast undertakes a strategic review of its titles ... Read >

Condé Nast shutters Gourmet, Cookie, 2 bridal titles

Publishing giant Condé Nast announced today that it was discontinuing Gourmet magazine, an influential publication that has been published since 1940. The closure comes as a shock, as Gourmet is a more influential magazine than fellow Condé Nast title ... Read >

Cutting through the LA Times hype over the Wave hype

Not even a day into Google Wave crashing upon the shores of the tech blogosphere and we have the L.A. Times gushing on over how it’s is going to transform how they work. Now ... Read >

NY Times Columnist William Safire Dead at 79

Former NY Times columnist, Pulitzer prize winner and former Nixon speechwriter William Safire has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 79. Safire started his career as a radio and television producer until a ... Read >

Washington Post puts the hammer down of staff tweets

It appears that the Washington Post has finally had enough of their staff’s free-wheeling Twitter postings. While we might all look at the thousands of Twitter messages that fly around the world every minute ... Read >

An open letter to President Obama – Stay out of the newspaper business

See that slippery slope over there? That’s the slope you will slide down President if you even consider any legislation to “rescue” the newspaper industry. It is a never ending slope that will ... Read >

Can I have one of those giant coffee pots in the sky?

Recently in Vancouver, Canada, McDonald’s was giving away small cups of their coffee over a two-week period. To help publicize the promotion that had someone change a lamppost to resemble a giant coffee-pot in the sky pouring ... Read >

Interesting: Bill O’Reilly nonchalantly supports public option

Conservapundit Bill O'Reilly expressed support for a public option on his show last night, like it was no big deal, like people aren't biting each other's fingers off over the whole debacle. Via Daily Kos, the baffling (but ... Read >