Against the backdrop of incessant reporting about record reductions in newspaper subscriptions and advertising revenue, I read a recent article that stated the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is losing about $20 million per year.

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The three biggest challenges for CEO bloggers are discipline, passion (about an expertise) and writing ability.....

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A few days ago I wrote about Lonelygirl15 and how it had been discovered that she was not an angst-ridden teenager, but a figment of some filmmaker's imagination....

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Last month Publishers Weekly published a great article on writing by John Hodgman, a favorite writer of mine (his The Areas of My Expertise is the funniest book published in the past year)....

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I launched a blog years ago to support my book The Startup Garden, and eventually let it go dark. Or dim, I suppose....

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My two kids went back to school yesterday. And the Chex Mix of their unique genetic makeup revealed itself again in their very different approaches to school readiness....

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My 14-year-old son, born in 1991, is certain he was born two decades too late. So, lately, he's been bringing himself up to speed on the culture of the 1970s: the music (The Doors, Grateful Dead), the literature (Gore Vidal), events that defined the decade (Vietnam, Woodstock) and Dick Cavett....

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Watching Daimler Chrysler’s new ad campaign unfold, has been quite interesting. It will be even more interesting to see whether this latest marketing concept works....

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This work week prior to Labor Day is understandably slow...

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As a business writer, I’ve always cared as much about writing as I do about business. In fact, I took the discipline of writing seriously long before seeing the practice of business as a dynamic activity. Today I care about both....

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I have a penchant for corporate blog rankings (Top 10 Corporate Blogs, Top 10 CEO Blogs) and in the spirit of extending my trivia pursuit to Corporate Marketing Blogs, I decided to investigate the state of CMO Blog...

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You've seen them before and you'll see them again. The boo-boos. The spelling errors. The simple typos that could have been avoided had someone taken the time to use spellcheck or proofed their writing one more time....

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