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Thursday, August 21, 2003
A perfect excuse to hype my
book. Not that I need any excuses! But Boston Globe
columnist Alex Beam today has a must-read
(right now!) piece on three authors named Dan Kennedy. Two of us have
books coming out this fall, and the third -- a sales-and-marketing
guru -- seems to put out a motivational book or a tape every other
week or so.
I am DK1 in Beamspeak, and
here's
the link to more
information on my book, Little People: Learning to See the World
Through My Daughter's Eyes, which will be published in October by
Rodale.
If you want to find out more about
DK2 and DK3, check out the links in the lower-right corner of my
home
page.
More creeping Poynterization.
(Note: This item was later corrected.)
The last I checked, it costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $10
or $20 to register a domain name for a couple of years. Are they
really that cheap at the Poynter
Institute?
A few years ago, obsessive
media-linker Jim Romenesko went to work for Poynter, which
necessitated his changing the name of his site from MediaGossip.com
to MediaNews.org. Then, last November, the site was completely
redesigned.
The new MediaNews was and is more
attractive and useful, although it took some campaigning by
NarcoNews.com's
Al Giordano to get Poynter to restore the left-rail items, which had
initially been reserved for institutional (a word I use advisedly)
purposes. I called it "creeping
Poynterization."
As it turned out, the redesign also
resulted in the dropping of the name "MediaNews" -- something I
didn't really pay much attention to until this morning, when I
spotted this
item. According to
Romenesko, "The medianews.org domain expires in September and won't
be renewed by Poynter."
It's easy to make too much of these
things. After all, the name of the page is "Romenesko," which hardly
suggests that Poynter is trying to depersonalize it. Still, it's been
MediaNews.org practically forever -- and now, for the want of 10
bucks, the link will cease to work.
Then again, "www.medianews.org"
doesn't have the word "Poynter" in it anywhere, does it? I suppose
that's the point. Sigh.
New in this week's
Phoenix. Roger Ailes's "fair
and balanced" lawsuit
against Al Franken seems crazy -- until you take a closer
look.
Also, thoughts on "Ben," Governor
Mitt Romney's secret Internet
tormentor.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
