‘Murph’ In Town For Boys & Girls Club Dinner
I mentioned to a teenager in passing the other day that one of my all-time favorite athletes, Dale Murphy, was coming to Greeneville, and he looked at me in all seriousness and said, “Who’s Dale Murphy?” It was immediately obvious to me that this youngster was not around during the early days of cable television, the TBS Superstation and the …

Communicating Value through Cause & Effect on Fanfeedr
A few months ago we held an event called Testcase at Betahouse in Cambridge, MA where we asked four startups to come and user test their web sites with local folks who showed up.

Tickling nostalgia with old bookstores
In the late 1970s and the mid 1980s, the street lined with used bookstores near the Cheonggyecheon used to bustle with students looking for textbooks when a new semester began.

DOT to fine Spirit Airlines up to $375,000
The Transportation Department said on Thursday it will fine Spirit Airlines as much as $375,000 for breaking consumer rules.

Emmy Fallout
News and musings about radio and TV in Northeast Ohio and beyond. Thursday, September 17, 2009 Emmy Fallout Earlier on OMW, we dutifully posted a link to the list of this year’s local Emmy Awards winners , with little comment – aside from a brief mention of the win for “Best Nostalgia Program” involving local radio personality and OMW reader Mike …

The likes of Flavio Briatore need to win too much
At last, a sporting figure with integrity. The head of the disgraced Renault Formula One team, the flamboyant Italian businessman Flavio Briatore, said that he quit his post out of a sense of duty; that he felt a moral obligation to spare his employers further humiliation following the allegations of race-fixing associated with Nelson Piquet Jr’s …

A Sterling Fall on Properties Abroad – Top Tips to Avoid Losing Out on the Rate
However, over the past few days sterling has dropped off steadily by over 2%. If you have entered into a contract to buy your property abroad and before you’ve paid for it the exchange rate shifts to go against you like this, it effectively increases the sterling cost to you.

Three Books For Frugal Fashionistas
One of the biggest myths about the fashion world is that it’s only for people who value lavish extravagance.

Best-selling author to talk with Chenango Forks Middle School students
On Monday, September 21, 8 to 9:30 a.m., best-selling author and former Syracuse University and NFL football player Tim Green will visit the Chenango Forks Middle School.

Rick Warren Crowdsourcing New Book Cover on 99designs.com
Since that announcement, the website is being flooded with designs. “As of 11 a.m. East Coast time today, 327 designs have been submitted to the website,” said Steve Sammons, Zondervan’s Executive Vice President of Consumer Engagement.

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