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Typos that can kill

January 20th, 2012 at 08:48 » Comments (2)

The backdrop for this post is snowy Cleveland, where I spent eight of my 20 years working in the commercial newswire business.  A short return visit this week to the ...more »

My Kodak moments: Why I shoot Fuji film

January 4th, 2012 at 22:59 » Comments Off

I grew up in one of the seemingly small number of Rochester families without a relative employed by Kodak. But that doesn’t mean the once-mighty photographic empire didn’t touch ...more »

John M. Williams: ‘He took a bite out of life and let the juices run down his chin’

November 24th, 2011 at 14:07 » Comments (46)

John MacLeod Williams, who led PR Newswire through tremendous sales growth in the 1990s and successfully extended the paid press release business model into China in recent years, died suddenly ...more »

Like Abe Vigoda, press releases were pronounced dead prematurely

September 6th, 2011 at 10:26 » Comments (2)

[caption id="attachment_1082" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo credit: Sony Pictures"][/caption] Actor Abe Vigoda knows what it’s like to be dead even while still very much alive and kicking. Known best for his roles as ...more »

How I spent my summer vacation

September 30th, 2009 at 17:30 » Comments (3)

The whole concept of a sabbatical is foreign to those of us who haven’t worked in academia. For someone who bought his first police scanner at age 14 and who ...more »

Counting corpses and making AP angry

September 2nd, 2009 at 17:30 » Comments Off

Most Americans associate summer's three-day bank holidays with barbecues, trips to the beach and  family vacations. I think of corpses. Not that I am morbid or have a desire to work as ...more »