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I’m very excited to see that Chicago is the U.S. bid city for the 2016 Olympics. There’s a long route between now and the pick for the host city, but an Olympics in Chicago would be an incredibly exciting event. I have a few friends involved in the bid process, and I’ve been threatening to…

The United States Congress established Sunday, April 15, 2007 as a national day of remembrance to honor the memory of the millions who perished in Germany during the Holocaust. I recently ran across a piece I wrote 14 years ago, as I thought about what the opening of the U.S. Holocaust Museum in 1993 meant…

Dick Costolo, writing at Ask the Wizard: “Why? Because no lawyer has ever used the ‘accept all changes’ button in MS Word, that’s why.” Have truer words ever been spoken?

One of the highlights for me at Politics Online a few weeks back was meeting Michael Turk. Turk was the eCampaign chair for the Bush/Cheney ’04 campaign, and held a similar role at the GOP. In a panel discussing online campaign tactics, Turk consistently made sharp points, showed a depth of understanding of the need…

Barack’s news yesterday that he outraised all other presidential candidates in the primary (Hillary raised a bit more, but her number includes money raised for the general, which she can’t use unless and until she gets the nomination) is a remarkable turn of events. While I’m mostly thrilled, on a very personal note, I think…

A little over a month ago, I got an e-mail from a marketing person at a small publisher in California. We have a book we think you’ll like, she said. Can we send you a copy? she asked. Now, I’ve received a handful of these e-mails in the past few years. I have a blog…

Bruce Allen wrote about the proliferation of conference spam at this year’s Legal Marketing Association confernece; I noticed the same thing ahead of this year’s TechShow. Bruce writes: If the LMA had asked me (called opt-in folks) I would have been happy to receive information from vendors with products or services specific to my current…

While everyone’s getting all excited about the pro-Obama remake of Apple’s 1984 ad, I thought I’d share another Apple ad, which I think is the absolute best one minute of video I’ve ever seen: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvn_Ied9t4M&hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=344] I can still remember the first time I saw the ad, and every time I see it still provokes…

If you’ve been following the ongoing saga that is Headline Animator (more sequels than Friday the 13th!), you’ll know that it’s been receiving a lot of attention over at FeedBurner world headquarters. For those that don’t know, Headline Animator turns your feed into an animated GIF. We’ve long recommended using Headline Animator as part of…

The pace continues to accelerate here in FeedBurner-land, so I’ve been pretty slack in posting to the blog. I know, I know – you didn’t miss me! – but it still feels odd to be out of the habit of posting and then face the inevitable writer’s block when I sit down to post. But…