The second part of the largest residential real-estate transaction in Erie County’s history has closed.
A Cleveland-based hedge fund trader, who remains anonymous, has closed on the second portion of the sprawling Russo family estate in Hamburg.
According to documents filed Thursday afternoon in the Erie County Clerk’s office, the hedge fund trader — through his Phantom [...]
The first disadvantage of the disease model is that, for individuals with addiction problems, it is distracting. If I drink too much alcohol, my attention would best be focused on what I need to do about this behavior. By focusing on reducing or stopping my drinking, perhaps I can be successful on my own, or [...]
I am getting a chance to browse randomly on my small battery of phones this week, mainly because my daughter discovered "Mad Men." As the son of a 1960s advertising art director, I was in the tank for this series from the first episode. My childhood was awash in chain-smoking existential swaggerers who tried to [...]
“Don’t talk to him. He ruins movies.” This is my daughter’s lament whenever we leave the theater. As my fiancée asks how I liked the flick, you can see my girl trying to wave her off as if signaling her away from a family secret.
Well, to her it is no family secret that you [...]
No one knows (or should know) the value of crowd-sourcing more than a trade conference programmer. Some of the best panel ideas and panel questions for the various OMMA shows I plan have come from discussions with industry folks about what issues they need addressed. For the upcoming Los Angeles show “Calling All ROI” I [...]
My friends at comScore/M:Metrics were nice enough to pass along a deck they have been using lately to illustrate the mobile habits of teens. As you will see, it fleshes out some nice detail about how this segment makes heavy use of low-end phone capabilities and may be resistant to some types of marketing. But [...]
As I was holding the Samsung Instinct at countless angles near my third-floor window to maximize signal strength, the ’70s flashback hit me. I had been here before. Trying to get TV reception at a hippie college on a Vermont mountain in 1978 was just about this tough. Positioning the TV near a window, getting [...]
There are a number of fine and interesting mobile projects out there that barely get noticed. Quietly, slowly, several major online and offline brands are iterating their services and sites without issuing the press releases that usually pass for news in the mobile marketing eco-system. I like to bookmark and check back on these guys, [...]
In Web years it seems like a lifetime ago that all of us suffered those annoying animated overlays running, crashing, driving across our displays. I recall one unit for a video game site that caused an earthquake on the screen, as a character broke through the home page. On a sport site, a football bulleted [...]
“Have you mated yet?”
“Several times, Dad, several times,” my daughter says with exasperation. I can’t quite tell if she is just being impatient with lame-o-Dad’s attempts at double entendre or reminding me that she is not a child and knows how to get beyond the first level of “Spore,” the new [...]
