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The Fourth and Fifth Estates

March 29, 2009

A couple weeks back, a Sonoma Index-Tribune reader opined about the press in a letter to the editor in which he errantly referred to us as the “third estate.” We in the press are actually the fourth estate, so named because the first three were already the clergy, the nobility and the commoners – in [...]

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From GunBun to Gayot

February 26, 2009

Yes, ’twas I who wrote the January/February cover story on Gundlach-Bunschu Winery for Vineyard and Winery Management Magazine. Winery scion Jeff Bundschu is a veritable quote machine in the interesting position of maintaining four generations of family legacy while aggressively embracing the future (I once produced a Gun-Bun tribute video for the Sonoma Valley Vintner’s [...]

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I Heart Darwin

February 14, 2009

Apropos that the California Academy of Science would launch its NightLife series of evening events sandwiched between Darwin Day (an international celebration of science and reason) and Valentine’s Day, the heart-shaped holiday that induces flights of romantic fancy through casual doping with phenylethylamine, the so-called “love-chemical” found in chocolate. It was date-night in the City [...]

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Newsroom of the Future

February 3, 2009

This is my mash note to Mitch Joel, president of Montréal-based digital marketing agency Twist Image, whose blog, “Six Pixels of Separation,” is currently my mental vitamin. I discovered Joel’s blog when I googled “How to build a media empire” during a recent fit of megalomania and was delighted to find his informative post entitled, [...]

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