I think we’ve all been in a situation where we didn’t have the right tool for the job. Maybe you tried to hang a picture using a shoe to drive the nail rather than the hammer you wish you had. Maybe you tried to do some delicate knife work using a 12 inch chef’s knife rather than the paring knife you needed. Whatever it was, you probably appreciated the need to use the right tool. Continue reading →
One of the things we used to do every year in the TV business was our 5 year plan. We’d project out ratings and revenues and expenses and someone in the accounting department would make sense of it all. The same sort of exercises went on then (25 years ago) at most businesses, as they do now, which is wonderful except for one thing. Continue reading →
Interesting pickup today by the folks at Lost Remote about an ad campaign run by The Austin Statesman. They’re using TV commercials to rip TV news as you can see from this video