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Hard Lessons from eBay

This week eBay announced yet another round of substantial changes to its selling structure.  For the past few years, the mega online retailer has re-jiggered its platform and in the process made very few of its sellers happy.
I am a longtime seller on eBay, specializing in collectible vinyl records.  Ebay has long been known as [...]

In the News

We Really Are the Media Now

This past Tuesday (January 12) I was  on Facebook and noticed that one of my FB friends had joined the group WFBQ-JIMMY-MAD-DOG-MATIS SHOULD-NOT-HAVE-GOT-FIRED.
Huh, I said to myself, while also pondering the grammatical error in the group title.  Didn’t know that had happened.  How did I miss it?
I went right to Indy Star and the Indianapolis [...]

In the News

Jimmy "Mad Dog" Matis Fired by Q-95

News of this is just now breaking, but apparently it happened at the end of last week.
Jimmy “Mad Dog” Matis, mid-day voice of WFBQ Q-95, has been let go after a mere 25 years at the station. That’s an eternity in radio.
This follows sports talker JMV’s abrupt departure from sister station WNDE and his subsequent [...]