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Why Al Diamon is wrong about news aggregators

I’m working for the site MaineNewsSimply.com as a content consultant. It’s a fun gig. Creating strategies and working with news. So it’s no surprise that I disagree with Al Diamon’s analysis in his Media Mutt blog. I know this is a bit late to be a response but I’m going to point out a few […]

May 18, 2010 Read the full post →

The right kayak can save your life

I hate to talk about the for two the kayakers missing in Casco Bay without all the details. But my column on buying a kayak was published in the Maine Sunday Telegram. Before I go further, the Coast Guard reports that they have been found. UPDATE: They were found alive floating in Casco Bay – […]

May 17, 2010 Read the full post →

And the kayaks are wet

Elaine and I got the kayaks out Saturday for the first time this season and paddled a bit up the Nezinscot River. It was a wonderful way to celebrate May Day. We spotted a beaver, a turtle basking in the sun and several water fowl. The muscles didn’t complain. My strokes felt natural. My legs […]

May 2, 2010 Read the full post →

What do you need to ride the Trek Across Maine?

Well you need to register and get the handbook. Yeah, there’s a handbook for all participants. Apparently it’s pretty comprehensive. So comprehensive that almost every question that I asked of Kathryn Libby, director of development for the Lung Association of Maine, she responded with, “That’s all in the handbook.” I was talking to her for […]

May 2, 2010 Read the full post →

Grannie’s got a gun

Police always can use help fighting crime. They may need new weapons or assistance from the citizenry. So when I saw this tweet from the @PressHerald, I wondered if they got both: @PressHerald: Maine State Police say they need more firepower; all troopers are getting AR-15s. http://bit.ly/dqGxWD Which leads to the story New AR-15s give […]

May 1, 2010 Read the full post →

Are writers about to become obsolete?

There is a kind of scary story in BusinessWeek about a computer program that writes sports stories. Feed the scores and stats into it and it will spit out a story. Not a great story but a story nonetheless. Does this mean I’m in danger of becoming extinct? I don’t think so. It’s all pretty […]

April 30, 2010 Read the full post →

Here’s a creative definition

I must thank Arthur Fink for answering a lingering question: What is a creative worker? I don’t mean creative as in “That’s such a creative display you made.” I mean a person who is part of the creative economy. In short, a creative. Arthur defined the creative as anyone who creates intellectual property. And that […]

April 25, 2010 Read the full post →

Good lessons to learn about managing communities

I was a community organizer before President Obama made it cool. While he did it to make poor people’s lives better, I was doing it to build page views for online newspapers. Now we know why I never will be president. I must admit that I made a lot of mistakes and had some successes. […]

April 22, 2010 Read the full post →

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