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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Rupert Murdoch vs. Google: A Gamechanger?
Global media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp is considering blocking Google from being able to search its news articles as a part of a plan to monetize online news content.
Further, Newscorp is reportedly in talks with Microsoft to receive payments so that Bing has access to Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and its other properties. [...]
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Google's Bait-and-Switch
Perhaps you, as a domain or business owner, received a coupon in the mail recently from Google offering a $100 coupon for Google Adwords advertising.
Like me, you might have gotten pretty excited about it. I’m a big fan of Google Adwords, having used them since 2006. They work.
Imagine my disappointment when I entered [...]
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Gmail Crashes and the World Doesn't End (Yet)
Yesterday’s brief gmail crash prompted many howls of frustration and despair. Twitter was so full of complaining about the gmail fiasco that some thought it caused Twitter itself to slow down.
No doubt it was majorly inconvenient for those who depend on gmail for business or for important personal communication. Any time you become dependent [...]