var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/08/book-review-inbound-marketing/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — If you build it, they will come. And by “it,” the authors of “Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs” mean a quality online-presence supported by effective Internet-marketing.
In the olden days of marketing — say, before 2000 — most marketers and public-relations professionals used […]
Entries Tagged as 'The Boston Globe'
Book Review: “Inbound Marketing”
March 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Advertising, Book Reviews, Books, Boston, Business, Culture, Journalism, Marketing, Massachusetts, Media, Personal, Technology, The Boston Globe, The Middle East
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One to Watch
March 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Baseball, Feminism, Japan, Red Sox, Sports, The Boston Globe
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/03/one-to-watch/’,size:‘large’} Baseball hasn’t had much room for women. That may soon change, however – if only a little, as the Boston Globe reports on a female knuckleballer from Japan.
The knuckleball not needing speed but relying rather on unpredictability, I really think this girl has a chance. Maybe she’ll replace Wake when […]
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The Death of Food
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Europe, Food, Global Warming, Globalization, The Boston Globe
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/08/the-death-of-food/’,size:‘large’} French traditional cheeses dying out? Say it ain’t so!
Still another victim of globalization.
Don’t get me wrong: globalization has its perks, and I’m not going to be rioting at G8 or WTO conferences anytime in the foreseeable future, but Big Government, Big Ag, and supermarkets are killing small farms and diversity […]
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West Bank Settlements
June 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Boston, Civil Liberties, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Media, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Boston Globe, The Middle East, War on Terror
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A reader sent me this link to a Boston Globe photo essay on Israeli settlements in the disputed West Bank. The two pictures I have posted above are the most moving.
The first is a group of Israelis in the settlement of Bat Ayin reacting to the news that an […]
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Non-Profit Newspapers
February 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Boston, Business, Economics, Education, Journalism, Law, Massachusetts, Media, Personal, Politics, Spare Change News, The Boston Globe
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/02/05/non-profit-newspapers/’,size:‘large’} David Swensen and Michael Schmidt are calling for major newspapers to turn into non-profit organizations:
Today, we are dangerously close to having a government without newspapers. American newspapers shoulder the burden of considerable indebtedness with little cash on hand, as their profit margins have diminished or disappeared. Readers turn increasingly […]
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The Value of an Internship
August 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Boston, Business, Education, Globalization, Journalism, Massachusetts, Media, Personal, Spare Change News, The Boston Globe
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2007/08/28/the-value-of-an-internship/’,size:‘large’} Kay M. Hymowitz writes in The Wall Street Journal that internships prevent students from gaining valuable life experience:
This means that internships are largely for rich kids–and therein lies another problem. The menial summer job gave many kids their first paycheck and the feeling of independence that came with it. It […]
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Vandalism by Editing
July 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Baseball, Blogosphere, Boston, Culture, Education, Journalism, Language, Massachusetts, Media, Personal, Sports, The Boston Globe
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I was fired from my first job in journalism.
It was 1998, and I was a senior in high school who had worked for several months as a sport agate clerk for the Belleville News-Democrat in southern Illinois. You know the Scoreboard page in the Sports section that’s full of […]
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The Future of Newspapers
June 7th, 2007 · No Comments · Business, Journalism, Massachusetts, Media, The Boston Globe
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2007/06/07/the-future-of-newspapers/’,size:‘large’} Ryan Sholin, a media blogger, makes ten observations about the future of newspapers here. His thoughts are accurate, except for one: Craig’s List, as Dan Kennedy notes, is to blame for a decline in revenue from classified advertising.
Sholin’s most important point — which I have previously discussed in regards to The […]
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A New Model of Newspaper Ownership
April 29th, 2007 · No Comments · Business, Massachusetts, Media, The Boston Globe
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2007/04/29/a-new-model-of-newspaper-ownership/’,size:‘large’} Dan Kennedy has a new article in CommonWealth Magazine on how a different ownership model might save newspapers like The Boston Globe. It’s well worth your time. See here.
Prior: My thoughts on saving the Globe are here and here.
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Boston Globe Loses its Metro Editor
April 10th, 2007 · No Comments · Business, Massachusetts, Media, Music, Personal, The Boston Globe
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Carolyn Ryan, the Boston Globe’s deputy managing editor for local news, is leaving Boston to become deputy metropolitan editor for government and politics at The New York Times. This is a loss for the Globe, and for Boston as a whole.
I knew Carolyn for six months in 2000 when I was an editorial […]
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James Carroll’s Treasure
March 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Europe, Iraq, Politics, The Boston Globe, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2007/03/26/james-carrolls-treasure/’,size:‘large’} James Carroll, a Boston Globe columnist who is also an author and former Catholic priest, is a treasure. Two of his most recent columns — on the historic, American tendancy to view the world in black-and-white terms and our upcoming moral reckoning over the war in Iraq and the actions of our […]
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When Breaking News Isn’t Newsworthy
February 8th, 2007 · No Comments · Culture, Entertainment, Media, The Boston Globe
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2007/02/08/when-breaking-news-isnt-newsworthy/’,size:‘large’} I signed up to receive major news headlines from Boston.com on my mobile phone, and here’s what I just received a few minutes ago:
Former Playboy model and oil heiress Anna Nicole Smith is dead, according to her attorney.
I get a text from Boston.com a couple times a month at most. […]
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The Vanishing Foreign Correspondent
January 31st, 2007 · No Comments · Business, Economics, Finance, Massachusetts, Media, The Boston Globe
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2007/01/31/the-vanishing-foreign-correspondent/’,size:‘large’} In response to The Boston Globe’s recent decision to close its foreign bureaus (see here), Washington Post columnist Fred Hiatt writes that international news is still essential:
[E]vidence suggests that newspapers aren’t replacing their own reporting with an equal amount of copy from elsewhere. After Sept. 11, there was nearly […]
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Boston Globe Cuts Foreign Bureaus
January 23rd, 2007 · No Comments · Business, Media, The Boston Globe
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2007/01/23/boston-globe-cuts-foreign-bureaus/’,size:‘large’} The Boston Globe has started the long, painful process of becoming a local newspaper again after a distinguished career as a national, then regional, publication. Its foreign bureaus are closing.
I, along with many other observers, have predicted this for a while: Why would one get international coverage from the […]
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How to Save The Boston Globe
December 29th, 2006 · No Comments · Business, Massachusetts, Media, The Boston Globe
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2006/12/29/how-to-save-the-boston-globe/’,size:‘large’} In addition to the oft-repeated concerns over declining advertising revenue, competition from the Internet, and decreasing circulations, there are two other major factors that are affecting major daily newspapers:
1. Every newspaper now competes against every other newspaper in the world that has its own Internet site. Competition in the […]
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