I hate getting an envelope every however many weeks asking me to pay for my newspaper.  With that envelope comes the obligation to either write a check or find some cash. But it also comes with the uneasiness of deciding how much of a tip to leave the paperboy.  Of course these days, at least…

I posted a warning almost 2 years about Hedge Fund IPOs and the risk of leveraging. With the market skyrocketing back up and never seemingly going down, I wanted to re post some reminders of just how I believe the market works. Agree or disagree, its up to you. This post is from June of…

It was a little more than 5 years ago that I started blogging with this post.  How interesting is it that my first post related to the quality and purpose of sportswriting and now 5 years later, my writings about newspapers have evolved from my annoyance with them, to my hope that they will survive…

Time Warner has taken a PR beating in its efforts to do the right thing.  I would like to offer them a suggestion. You are not going to win the PR battle if you make usage caps an issue related to cost.  There is far too large a contingency on the internet who will do…

So I’m sitting in traffic in Manhattan. Not moving.  In the distance I can hear a firetruck siren and its getting closer. As those around us start to realize that we were in its path, I could see the frustration and even sense of fear in the driver’s face as he physically turned in all…

We are in the broadband era.  There have been stairstep increases in broadband speeds on a market by market basis across the country and the world.  As fiber and Docsis 3.0 enter markets, providers jack up their download speeds to 50 and even in some cases 100mbs.  That’s great. Speed is always what we need….

Every argument has its “go to” comparison.  Talk to anyone about what is going to happen with the future of TV,  and inevitably there will be a reference to “look what happened to the newspapers” or “Look what happened to the music industry” Can we just set aside those arguments for all things media going…

Now that twitter seems to be a media darling and an acquisition target, I thought I would share some of my observations. 1. Tweets are the blog posts you thought about writing, but didn’t feel they had enough substance 2. Twitterers are older. Myspace started around music and students. Facebook started around college students. Twitter…

I have a simple question.  Why are profitable companies laying off people ?  I can see if a company’s survival is at stake.  If payroll can’t be met. If debt can’t be paid. Then layoffs are a necessary evil. Even if companies have created cash flow deficits through their own mistakes, that’s the nature of…