May 18, 2007

A typical day in the life of the Frenchman family in Long Valley, NJ: This morning my son wakes up early to boot up my old PC in my office. Why? He now knows how to use a PC, fire up Internet Explorer (I know I have to get him on Firefox), and log on to his Webkinz account to play one of three Webkinz.

April 13, 2007

I had another post ready to go, but all of my good friends asked me to make a post on Don Imus. Why? Those of you that know me for a while, know that I've been a huge supporter of The Rutgers Women's Basketball Team since about 1986 or so.

April 9, 2007

On my drive home the other night from Seder I got to thinking about the types of first life companies and products I'd like to see in Second Life. Seems like I had a lot of time on my hands, right? Well, have you ever tried driving back to NJ from Long Island on a Jewish Holiday while your entire family was asleep in the car? If you have, then you know that plenty of ideas will jump into your head.

January 25, 2007

Interesting article in Monday's Wall Street Journal titled Candidates Face New Test: Winning the Netroots Primary which really highlights why the 2008 election is pointing towards a much greater use of online advertising in securing the White House....

December 27, 2006

A little historical back drop for you: Back in 1947, Ronald Reagan, President of the Screen Actors Guild was called to give testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee on communist activities within SAG. A quote from Reagan is important to be reminded of today regarding Microsoft Vista/IE 7(stay with me)....

December 12, 2006

My wife is the classic super star shopper. Back in her day she once hit six malls across three states in just one day. No exaggeration, 3 different states. That's a lot of shopping bags....

December 6, 2006

Did you see these Volkswagon commercials over the weekend?  I know they have been probably around for about 4 weeks now, but they slipped in past my TiVo and scared the hell out of me.... 

December 4, 2006

Every year for the past 17 years, my wife Mary and I would drive out to Wyckoff's Tree Farm in Belvidere, NJ, to cut our own tree down.   Wyckoff's was famous for literally having mountains of trees to choose from.... 

November 2, 2006

There are two interesting articles over at AdAge. One looks at Evan Tracey's (of TNS Media Intelligence) prediction that political ad spending will hit $2 billion for this campaign cycle surpassing the 2004 election by 17%....

October 27, 2006

I'm probably going to get nailed from both sides of the political spectrum for this post, but I like my Google results to be as pure as possible....

October 20, 2006

I went out today to get the mail and lo and behold I found a blue box in my mailbox with this very tantalizing headline: "Open for an uplifting change"....

October 16, 2006

I found the article, Air America, Home of Liberal Talk, Files for Bankruptcy Protection over at the NY Times surprising....

October 10, 2006

A while back I wrote a post called What Came First: The Chicken or The Blog regarding advice I gave my sister for starting her own blog on raising chickens....

September 19, 2006

AdAge has a very interesting article called Political Ad Spending Could Hit $1.6 Billion This Year and I keep wondering who forgot to hand me out a slice of the ad budget buy....

September 13, 2006

We are back from our second vacation down in Walt Disney World. One of the biggest changes since our February visit (besides the unbearable heat at the end of summer in Florida) was that almost every park is now matching your fingerprint with your park pass. Disney told us it was to protect you in case you lose your park pass. However, my mind started spinning about all of the data Disney collects on us....

August 24, 2006

I'm back from the All Things Political conference and it was very interesting....

August 8, 2006

It has been announced that Google will power XM Radio's commercials, giving AdWords clients the ability to target XM's customer base with ads....

So the stage is set for today's big showdown between Ned Lamont and Joe Lieberman for the democratic Senate primary in Connecticut....

July 24, 2006

So I've been reading Mark Cuban's blog for a while and I usually find his non-basketball posts interesting, especially the one he posted the other day called The Movie Business Challenge....

July 17, 2006

CMO of Widget Co - Okay, let's get the meeting started to discuss promoting the New Widget 100. First, let's go around the table and see how everyone is making progress. Traditional Gal, you go first....

July 4, 2006

Ok, it is the 4th of July in America so why shouldn't I participate in a little celebration. (Don't worry, I'll keep this short.) We've been TiVoing The Revolution on The History Channel and really enjoying watching it. One of the episodes featured the military campaign of 1776....

June 29, 2006

A few days ago on my site I wrote this post called Since When Is the Net Neutral? in response to all of the Net Neutrality propaganda....

June 23, 2006

Just a few days ago in a lunch meeting I had with a very large political media (TV) agency (you know, the ones where all the money is currently spent), we discussed the impact of the internet on politics....

June 12, 2006

Two interesting articles came out the last few days and I finally got around to writing about them....

June 7, 2006

Google is now launching a new product called Google Spreadsheet. And if it is still available, you can get an invite to test it out....

Google is now launching a new product called Google Spreadsheet. And if it is still available, you can get an invite to test it out....

June 2, 2006

I saw this post over at Reuters this week titled Virgin Mobile Introduces Ad-Subsidized Calls and my initial reaction was that it is a lame idea....

May 24, 2006

I've been sitting on some very interesting numbers on Google from last week...

May 21, 2006

So this is a little on the slow side for reporting a major story...

May 19, 2006

Ok, the news is everywhere on the US government getting access to phone records, and you can draw your own conclusions on whether it is illegal or not....

Ok, the news is everywhere on the US government getting access to phone records, and you can draw your own conclusions on whether it is illegal or not....

May 16, 2006

In Saturday's Wall Street Journal, there was an article called the Kos Celeb. It is about Ned Lamont trying to get into the Connecticut Democratic Primary...

May 15, 2006

As reported in a WSJ article this week, Many Major Newspapers Post Circulation Declines, most of the top 10 newspapers posted lower newspaper circulations....

May 10, 2006

I know you are thinking another MySpace bashing post, but that’s not entirely true....

May 5, 2006

My friend Art beat me to the punch this week by referencing a Washington Post article...

April 29, 2006

To: Ross Levinsohn, President, Fox Interactive Media
Fr: Eric Frenchman
Re: What to Do With MySpace

To: Ross Levinsohn, President, Fox Interactive Media
Fr: Eric Frenchman
Re: What to Do With MySpace

April 25, 2006

In Sunday's NY Times Business Section, there was a huge article on MySpace.com called Making Friends Was Easy. Big Profit Is Tougher and I found it eye-opening....

In Sunday's NY Times Business Section, there was a huge article on MySpace.com called Making Friends Was Easy. Big Profit Is Tougher and I found it eye-opening....

April 24, 2006

The folks over at BurstMedia just released some new information on internet usage that I thought you'd find interesting. Highlights include...

April 18, 2006

I'm surprised this is news, but it is after a long weekend....

April 17, 2006

Back on April 4th, MarketingVox reported how the Political Ad Blitz in Key States Tightens Ad Inventory and that marketers better get ready for ad inventory problems...

April 12, 2006

You've probably already seen the announcement, but Disney plans to offer many TV shows for free on the Web. Literally, this is the BIG news of the day...

April 10, 2006

Not sure if you saw this, but Google recently settled a $90 million lawsuit over click fraud....

April 5, 2006

In Sunday’s NY Times, a front-page article titled Internet Injects Sweeping Change into US Politics, gave what I believe is a really one-sided view on how politicians are going to use the Internet in the future...

March 31, 2006

This may have slipped under the radar, but Arnold Schwarzenegger, as reported by AdAge, launched a TV campaign now, even though he is running unopposed in the Republican Primary. The commercial, produced by National Media is significant because...

March 29, 2006

On Thursday, CNETnews.com published an article titled Blue-chip Ads, Red-light Content and it really fired me up.