Archives for the 'Personal' Category
I’m a proud husband– check out this interview with Kathi!
I don’t talk about my family much here on Mediavorous, but I’m so proud of an interview that just went live with my wife Kathi that I have to share it. She’s doing great and important work with new media and writing at USC, and it’s great that the university is spreading the word.
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Why I don’t like the Marriott Residence Inn media policy
Nodding in from vacation: we’re staying at the Marriott Residence Inn here in Portland, Oregon, and there has been a change in how they deal with media that bums me out. We’ve been staying here for years when we visit family: it has two rooms, one of which is in a loft, so the kids [...]
Sick and Wrong: the parental advisory in front of Sesame Street DVD
I’m glad that I’m not alone in hating the parental advisory in front of “Sesame Street Old School,” the new DVD set of the first two seasons. In the New York Times on 11/18, Virginia Heffernan rightly satirizes this move.
Speaking as a media guy and a father, I wonder why we are so interested in [...]
Personal: ad:tech NY here I come! or… “leaving on a jet plane… again”
As I write this, it’s 4:20am and in a few minutes I’ll finish sipping my coffee, slip on my clothes and out the door to the airport to wing my way to ad:tech New York, which is going to be a good show.
I really dig my new job, but one downside is that I’ve done [...]
Not quite misquoted, but…
It’s always interesting when I get interviewed by mainstream media about the internet and the broader media universe.
A few days ago, a reporter from MarketWatch called to get my opinion about next week’s launch of the new Fox Business Network, a wannabe competitor to CNBC. I spent a long time chatting with him about how [...]
