November 2010

Ohio, American’s Wine Grape Paradise?

November 27, 2010

It was 69 years ago this month that the venerable pages of LIFE Magazine crowed about the “Finest Wine from America’s Finest Grape District.” Ohio. Granted, it was a paid advertisement but, my, how times have changed. “America’s wine grape paradise,” the Lake Erie Islands, has been eclipsed, not least of which by the entire [...]

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Quote: Netflix’ Open-source Alt-Distro Biz

November 26, 2010

With the launch of a streaming-only option, many Netflix subscribers (including this one) will no longer say “and now the envelope please.” It’s a red-letter day for online movie distribution without, um, the red letter. What will happen to the post-office once their largest consumer of first class postage goes completely digital? And for that [...]

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Sonoma’s Secret Societies

November 19, 2010

I received an email from the Sonoma Valley Vintners and Growers Alliance today and happily clicked through because I like my spam paired with wine and (full disclosure) the organization is a client of mine. In it was an invitation to join the Sonoma Valley Grapes and Wine Society, which affords one all sorts of [...]

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Rated F: When Failed Films find Redemption

November 18, 2010

“Failure” is the new F-word. In recent years, the notion of failure has become something of an academic and media flashpoint with everyone from Malcom Gladwell to FailCon 2010, a convention celebrating entrepreneurial failures, pondering the positive possibilities of blowing it. No one, however, seems to blow it with higher entertainment value than filmmakers, resulting [...]

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