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SoiTu.es – User-Generated Content Portal in Spain
During my week in Madrid, I visited Gumersindo Lafuente, the founder and director of a brilliant Spanish-language site called SoiTu.es (or roughly "I am you" in English). Even while it provides up-to-date news and tons of helpful/interesting blurbs and links to other...
Ashes and Snow Comes to Mexico City
The editors of our magazine Chilango (our city guide for Mexico City, much like New York Magazine serves the Big Apple), asked me to write a review of Ashes and Snow, the photography show that arrived in Manhattan three years ago, since I had seen it then. Following...
Howdy Doody Time! Changes in media habits
Over this holiday week, I have had some great conversations with my parents. Today, I asked them about their media habits growing up. Oh what a different world we live in compared to when my folks grew up in suburban Milwaukee. They are now 67 and 75 (and are avid...
10 blogging tips from 10 bloggers
Business blogging has passed the tipping point. Today, executives and professionals in the media, marketing, technology and public relations industries get much of their information from blogs and strategize about how to incorporate blogging into their marketing,...
Quality vs. Quantity? Review of the Documentary King Corn
I saw a great documentary called King Corn (made in 2007) about two recent college graduates from Boston who decide to go on a cross-country road trip: Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis. They stop at a university medical center and end up getting a hair test to see what they...