Archive for 2011

Below are a few photos from the “Disney On Ice – Treasure Trove” show that’s playing at TD Garden in Boston this week. The Treasure Trove show is an on-ice highlight reel of sorts from some Disney’s most famous movies (eg Snow White, Lion King, and Peter Pan) as well as some more recent movies [...]

It’s been a little over a year since this and things haven’t gotten better, have they? Even if former Kent State Golden Flashes quarterback Julian Edelman – who somehow makes a living as a marginal player among other marginal players on the New England Patriots barren roster – didn’t molest a woman at a nightclub [...]

At this time 43 deaths have been attributed to Irene. Almost 3 million people are still without power. Whole villages have reportedly been submerged, roads and bridges swept away by floods caused by pounding rain. Yet, some insist that Irene was over hyped. They’re wrong.

I visited the San Diego Convention Center a couple of weeks ago and was quite impressed by it. It’s located just a frew minutes’ cab ride from the San Diego International Airport, bookended by two hotels – Hilton to the south and Marriott to the north – and it runs parallell to the San Diego [...]

Jeremy Schoemaker – perhaps better know as ShoeMoney, his online moniker – wrote in a blog post July 13 that “Twitter will suffer a similar fate as MySpace.” It’s somewhat hard to tell from Schoemaker’s post what exactly MySpace’s fate is in his eyes, but in his own words: MySpace’s financial situation is much worse. [...]

Wrote Kirk Minihane, WEEI.com columnist, on April 4, 2011: Unless there is a radio simulcast that I’m not aware of — are the Bruins even on the radio? The Boston Globe’s sports media columnist Chad Finn’s reporting on the 2011 spring ratings should help Minihan find his way around the dial: “We’ve seen steady growth [...]

Retailers are already pushing the Back-to-School shopping season, even though kids have barely gotten out of school for summer. There are simple reasons for why Back-to-School promotions are seemingly everywhere. Summer is a slow season for most retailers to begin with and back-to-school pretty much the only reason consumers to turn their wallet upside down [...]

The 2011 spring ratings book is nothing short of a disaster for WEEI, the station that only two years ago ruled the sports-talk roost in Boston. Reports the Boston Globe’s Chad Finn on Boston.com: …98.5 The Sports Hub, the Bruins’ flagship station since launching in August 2009…, finished first in the market among the all-important [...]

I saw this down at the playground the other day:

One of the online marketing recommendations dispensed at the Google AdWords seminar I criticized in a previous post was for small business owners to blog in order to become thought leaders in their respective industries. The presenter also urged attendants to stay away from social media where he predicted they would end up having conversations [...]