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Tired of huffing dead media around for pennies, the US Postal Service has decided that they are going to increase magazine postal rates by 8 percent, according to a story on Media Post. And the old media titans are not happy. In response magazine publishers and industry organizations, including Conde Nast, Time Inc., Bonnier Corp., [...]

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I’m reminded of something I said 16 years ago. . . [Link: BusinessInsider]

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On Thursday night June 4, 2009 I participated in a panel discussion on Social Media and the Social Web presented by Nemo Design and Group Y at the Nemo offices in Portland, Oregon. The panel was titled Who Killed Social Media? Reputation, Community Management, and the Future of Branding and included four other industry professionals: [...]

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After watching the highlights of The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher’s interview with Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone (at The Four Seasons in Carlsbad, CA) it would almost seem that the guys behind one of the fastest growing information distribution networks in the world simply stumbled into this and are [...]

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Looks like Wasserman Media Group’s dive into digital properties with Sportnet (skateboard.com, motocross.com, surfspot.com, etc. . . ) has convinced sports management giant Octagon (you know, that swimmer Michael Phelps’ agent) to kick off its own digital division. It would make sense after their dabbling in “consulting” with live webcaster Go211.com. To be led by [...]

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On July 1, 2008 Starbucks announced that it would be cutting back on its retail expansion and closing 600 stores across the United States. The Huffington Post recently posted the entire list. While looking over the list of closures (and knowing quite of few of the locations personally) I realized what this list actually is: [...]

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On the conference call this afternoon (which ended at 3:05 PM PST) Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer broke down outrageously solid numbers for Apple. Revenue was up 38% vs. 07. In the first six months of 08 total revenue are up $4.3 billion compared to the first six months of 07. Normally, a company reporting these [...]

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While cruising facebook today a status update caught my eye. A former Future Snowboarding employee said, ” . . . is in shock. He is a free agent.” It appears that Future Snowboarding has moved forward into the past. In an 11 o’clock meeting today employees were told that Future Snowboarding would be shutting down [...]

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Back in 1998 when Burton Snowboards first hinted about launching a footwear brand, they made a point of letting everyone know that these were absolutely, positively not going to be “skate” shoes. At the time, Dennis Jenson (the guy responsible for the launch of the brand) wanted everyone to believe that Burton was launching an [...]

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