Today's Guest: Matthew MacDonald, author, WordPress: The Missing Manual Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of website coders with no sense of design but without whom we’d be trading posts in nothing but 0s and 1s… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! I cannot tell a... Continue Reading →
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of women I dated and hated… and hated some more… in the new new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! It’s only March, but I’m ready to declare Mark Svartz’s book – is it fiction? Nonfiction? – the craziest effing book of the... Continue Reading →
The post-war baby boom is becoming something else, more than half a century later. But is that something else a bust? In his new book, Baby Boomer Bust?—and the title ends in a question mark—Roger Chiocchi (pronounced KEY-o-key) says it may be a problem that the average baby boomer nearing retirement only has $68,000... Continue Reading →
Flash Gordon. Has there ever been a cooler name or a cooler action hero anywhere? I can’t remember exactly when during the 1960s I first saw the old Universal serials repeated on television featuring Buster Crabbe as Flash, but I was hooked for life. As I grew older, I was a sucker for any... Continue Reading →
This is my third year of being the ringmaster of the Mr. Media radio show and I’m starting to see previous guests return with new projects. And that is certainly the case tonight, as cartoonist and historian Trina Robbins returns to the show to talk about her new project about Nell Brinkley's Girls, The... Continue Reading →
If ever there was an era that put demands on marketing, this is it. Differentiating your brand from your competitor’s is so important at a time when jobs and stock prices are vanishing overnight. If you’re selling a product or service, you want the best possible minds at work on the task of survivor... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: Richard Weiner, author, Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications (Originally Published September 30, 1996; Richard Weiner passed away on January 29, 2014. He was an early and enduring supporter of Mr. Media and he will be greatly missed.) During his career as the owner of a successful New York public relations... Continue Reading →
Originally distributed by Universal Press Syndicate, November 2, 1996 If syndicated right-wing radio talk show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North are as powerful and influential as they seem to think, why isn't Bob Dole the president of the United States? That's what Tom Leykis wants to know. Leykis, 40,... Continue Reading →
Originally Published November 18, 1996 CNN is one of the world's most recognizable brand names. If you need a news fix, it's the television channel to which everyone in the global village turns. What about when there's no TV around? That's the idea behind CNN Interactive, yet another brand extension from the house that Ted... Continue Reading →
Trina Robbins, the author of the GoGirl! series of comics from Dark Horse, joins us today as our guest. Trina Robbins Website • Blog • Facebook • Wikipedia • Trina Robbins 2009 interview with Mr. Media BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: Trina, is the pre-teen and the teen girl, is that a new reader of comics?... Continue Reading →
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