Welcome to podcasting, the medium that promises a future where anyone can make radio, instead of just listen to it. The biggest podcast audiences now number in the mere tens of thousands. Yet real radio, the kind with bona fide mass audiences, is starting to use the technology to make its shows available for download.… Continue reading

Peter Chernin has some rules to ensure survival for new media companies….(pdf link)

Bad news for the newspaper industry: “Print is dead,” Sports Illustrated President John Squires told a room full of newspaper and magazine circulation executives at a conference in Toronto in November. His advice? “Get over it,” meaning publishers should stop trying to save their ink-on-paper product and focus on electronic delivery of their journalism. Rare… Continue reading

Home Bartending Dept. I always enjoy the Stoli Dolis at Capital Grille. While it’s advertised as pineapple-infused Stolichnaya vodka, you know there’s something extra. Once when I asked for the recipe, the waiter said it was a secret. Not anymore. The infusion factor is over-sold. A good stoli-doli is basically Stoli (infused or not) with… Continue reading

Massimo Polidoro gives Dan Brown a history lesson. What a surprise….