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I learned to love Continental Airlines although it was hard at times – particularly when I was forced to cab it to LaGuardia to avoid their ...

In the early 1970s, Robert Maxwell lost out in his attempt to buy the News of the World, which was purchased by Rupert Murdoch, who went on ...

Technology: Now It's Personal. Thinking strategically about how technology impacts what we do as publishers. This speech was conducte...

First posted May 18 2008. Frank would have been 95 on Sunday Frank Sinatra toured Australia in 1974 and they just wouldn’t leave him a...

Originally posted on February 25, 2007: A few weeks ago Mrs PND and I were watching The Daily Show-- and I thought this show and The Colbert...

Originally posted April 30th, 2008. Speaks for itself. I have no direct connection with Roger Clemens but I did admire him. In the mid-198...

Originally posted on December 10, 2008 Many pundits pontificate on the demise of publishing (myself included and some others I could mention...

There are over four million Texas high schoolers and every one of them is exceptional; there are many fewer in Alaska but this makes them no...

There were numerous fine presentations at the Digital Book World this week - notably the panel discussion featuring Larry Kirshbaum, Michael...

Before we left the family manse on Saturday morning (12/26) I happened to turn the news on to the reports about the Delta Airlines flight in...

In 1997 I spent a month with Jimmy Lai aboard his rocket-like media story Apple Daily. Who is Jimmy Lai ? He's the guy they said swam ac...

Well, I thought it was funny.... Build your own: http://kenyanbirthcertificategenerator.com/

I always remembered the moon walk occurring during the daytime, and it wasn't until recently that Mrs. PND happened to recall 'stayi...

As we slowly made our way toward the airport for our flight home, the car lurched forward as the front wheels fell into a particularly large...

Did you hear the one about the blind person that shelled out $350 to buy a Kindle just so they could listen to a book rather than buy a brai...

Apparently some other obnoxious basta'd named Michael Cairns is sticking it to the English cricket board. ( Guardian ) Lancashire have...

I bet every one who reads this blog reads the NYTimes and so you will have seen the banner across the top of the page that suggested you vie...

Julia Boorstin (SeekingAlpha ) thinks the Kindle won't have much of an impact and lauds the Apple/Amazon 'partnership' as a pos...

In the Independent this week Michael Bywater discusses the Apology Culture. Over here, with just this week everyone from the President to ...

There's been so much written about Lincoln this year it is no surprise that there is more attention paid to his birth date than (perhap...