Men like this are in danger
When President Obama signed the new healthcare bill into law, I don’t think he realized what it may do to American men. If we go by new research from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, American men are about to get more…feminine.
Listen to this new 2 minute podcast to find out WHY and what this does to the America we know and love.
Men like this are in danger
When President Obama signed the new healthcare bill into law, I don’t think he realized what it may do to American men. If we go by new research from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, American men are about to get more…feminine.
Listen to this new 2 minute podcast to find out WHY and what this does to the America we know and love.
Cleveland rocks!
Cleveland’s favorite son, Drew Carey, recently put together a great video series on his (and my) hometown. The series, developed byThe Reason Foundation, looks at Cleveland’s past, its current state, and discusses real ideas how to get the city on the right path to greatness again. Very well done series.
Then I read THIS editorial in Cleveland Scene, written by Frank Lewis.
Very quickly I realized that everything wrong with Cleveland can be summed up in ONE WORD.
Listen to today’s 2 minute podcast to find out what that word is… and what Cleveland TRULY needs to do to get back on the path to prosperity.
Cleveland rocks!
Cleveland’s favorite son, Drew Carey, recently put together a great video series on his (and my) hometown. The series, developed by The Reason Foundation, looks at Cleveland’s past, its current state, and discusses real ideas how to get the city on the right path to greatness again. Very well done series.
Then I read THIS editorial in Cleveland Scene, written by Frank Lewis.
Very quickly I realized that everything wrong with Cleveland can be summed up in ONE WORD.
Listen to today’s 2 minute podcast to find out what that word is… and what Cleveland TRULY needs to do to get back on the path to prosperity.
Every week, I have the pleasure of talking about the week’s biggest stories with Karin Housley and Julie Johnson on The Karin Housley show…Saturday mornings on AM 1220 in KLBB in Minneapolis. As an extra bonus podcast, I will share with you the fun we have every Saturday discussing the biggest stories and figuring out why we even care about them.
This week… I talk about the battle of Healthcare not on Capitol Hill, but on Twitter and Facebook. Also, America’s last true role models have been cancelled off of our TVs… Heidi and Spencer and the rest of the gang of The Hills. Also, what is Jesse James thinking?! That and more on this week’s bonus below.
A 1998 piece of ClipArt showing a woman tanning outside, which really has nothing to do with this podcast.
Welcome to the new daily podcast, TheDailyHaze!
The price of looking good is going up. According to this story from Bloomberg, a new federal 10% tax on tanning is part of the new healthcare reform package just signed by President Obama. What does this mean for the good looking people of America?
Who does this hurt the most?
Listen to this 2 minute rundown… and find out what I think REALLY matters from this story. You may be surprised by the answer.
A 1998 piece of ClipArt showing a woman tanning outside, which really has nothing to do with this podcast.
The price of looking good is going up. According to this story from Bloomberg, a new federal 10% tax on tanning is part of the new healthcare reform package just signed by President Obama. What does this mean for the good looking people of America?
Who does this hurt the most?
Listen to this 2 minute rundown… and find out what I think REALLY matters from this story. You may be surprised by the answer.
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of...
(Thanks Rosie Siman for the inspiration)
I’ve had no real deep, thought provoking thoughts today running through my head… except these three…
1. PING PONG. I love sitting in Bryant Park when the weather starts to break and watch local ping pong fans doing their thing. It’s intriguing to watch. What other part of the country will you see that?! Nowhere. I need to practice and get into a few games. What a better way to relax and enjoy the weather and people of New York…especially this time of year.
2. THE L.A. BEARD. I lived in Los Angeles in 2008. While I was there, I got lazy. Lazy about shaving everyday. What formed has been nicknamed by my close friends as the “L.A. Beard.” They didn’t nickname it because they liked it. They nicknamed it because they hated it. No one back in the Midwest or east coast really got into it. But I liked it. Slowly but surely lately, it’s been coming back. Will I keep it? The jury is still out.
3. PIE. I love pie. Do you like pie? Not to sound like one of the best lines from the Men in Black movies, but I LOVE PIE. Pie fixes everything. My friends recently debated with me that ice cream was the fix all to our problems, but I disagree. When was the last time you had pie? Probably the holidays. You usually only have pie during big family gatherings. Ice cream is a more normal, and obvious, item to have when you’re not feeling well about life. So why not treat yourself to PIE??? It’s different… and it’s damn good.
That is all today.
Carry on.
Have you seen this mouse???
There’s currently a warrant out for Mickey Mouse. Pissed off New Yorkers are going to tar and feather the mouse in the middle of Central Park for being a greedy bastard.
While you were asleep, Cablevision pulled WABC Channel 7 from its lineup of channels. That’s right… the flagship of the ABC Television Network was pulled from the channel lineup for many customers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Disney, which is WABC’s parent company, wants Cablevision to fork over $40 million a year to carry WABC’s signal on its channel lineup, according to an article in Business Week. This is on top of the already $200 million the cable operator pays for the cable channels that Disney operates and distributes.
Why is Disney doing this?
Simple.
The network television business model is dying. It can’t survive in its current form. Cable channels are thriving because it has two main forms of revenue: subscription costs paid for by cable operators and advertising.
Network television only gets money from advertising.
So what do the big boys think they can do? Do EXACTLY what one business model is able to do to make up the loss for the others. But it doesn’t work that way.
Network television is in a desperate attempt to find revenue. As advertising dollars start to dwindle thanks to the expansion of the media and targeted ways to get your message out, the network’s generic message branding options are not as necessary or as cost effective to businesses as they once were.
Simply put: they’re desperate. And they’re trying anything they can.
In this shifting media time, the networks and local affiliates also need to learn that it’s time for THEM to change and let their business model evolve to the next level.
Many of the “traditional media” outlets are scared of what us new media people are doing. They see competition because we are giving content to people on their level, how they want it and WHEN they want it.
Instead of fighting it, big networks and local affiliates, it’s time to ADAPT and join the new world of media.
Your business model is dying. Don’t try to put a band-aid on something that needs to radically change.
Just change it.