I was watching Anthony Bourdain the other night on the Travel Channel. For you foodies out there, his No Reservations is consistently one of the best of the “foodologues” out there. This week, his program was about disappearing NYC restaurants. If you haven’t seen the show, I’d urge you to find it and not just for the food. You see, for those of us who grew up in and around NYC, the real food served in these places is going the way that the real Times Square did. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Reality checks
Sports It’s Not
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As we get to the end of the month, I’m reminded of the monthly traffic reports we’d get from the syndicated services such as Comscore. While we had our 24/7 monitoring and knew what traffic was doing, the syndicated services were important data since clients, agencies, and other used them for cross-site comparisons between the various sports leagues and teams. One thing that always bugged me was the inclusion in the rankings of a number of sites that weren’t content sites (Cabelas – sorry – commerce and shopping, not news content) as well as content sites that weren’t sports, and the inclusion of the WWE in our category was the biggest distortion of all. Continue reading
Filed under sports business, Thinking Aloud
We’re All In This Together
You’re an artist and you play to make yourself happy. Having spent some of my life as a performing musician, I know the joys of practicing (and that’s not sarcasm) to get better and do things you couldn’t before. But I believe it would be hard to find any performer who didn’t think it was even better when you had an audience there to support you and show you some love for all that hard work. You’re in it together. Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints, Reality checks, Thinking Aloud, What's Going On
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