The Cult of Me

How Social Technologies Will Save the Story

My New York City Experience

This book — or more accurately the process of the book — is about exploring the new ways we create, consume and connect with stories, information and data. That has changed dramatically despite what you will read writers telling you.
They are wrong. The world has changed. A good story is still important. It’s just not [...]

Weird Tales About Internet Coupons

I was trolling through my inbox today looking for something interesting to write about when I came across this press release: Internet Coupon Usage Up 83% in American Households.
Normally I would have blown right past this but I’ve been thinking about my own shopping habits recently because I’ve loaded all my finances into Quicken. (Side [...]

“How Much More Glue Can We Sell Them?”

Another reason I’ve been so MIA is that I’m digging through a whole series of books (which means you’re going to be seeing more book reviews in the near future).
There’s so much interesting thinking on globalization — and how technology has changed not only where we do business, but how we do business. It’s a [...]

Outsourcing to India

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I’ve been noticably absent from the blog for the past few weeks, which I’ve explained in the last post. This should begin to change in the next few months as I’ve taken some steps to lighten my research load.
Yesterday, I spoke with two managers — and I use that term, but I’m not [...]

Where’s Brad

I’ve been a bit on the MIA side for the past few weeks but that hardly means The Modern Journalist is going away.
Quite the contrary. I’ve been doing a few things that are moving my project along quite well — in no small measure to some of my readers, my blog readers and — let’s [...]