Another reason to look forward to Hyannis (just 31 days from now). According to a recent note from the race director, “This year we have two of road racings greatest ever ‘American Superstars’ attending as our special guest – 4 time Boston & New York Marathon winner Bill Rodgers & 1972 Olympic Marathon Gold Medal [...]
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Check out this preview single from the new U2 album, No Line On The Horizon, due out March 3 in the US. “Get On Your Boots”. I like it, a good rocker. I have to say, U2 is some of my favorite music to run to. Powerful, elevating. Many of my most transcendent long run [...]
Smashing Magazine has a great collection of free wallpapers designed for the iPhone designed by some amazing creative artists. But even though Smashing Mag’s inspiration was the iPhone, which they refer to as an, ahem, “magical masterpiece”, these 320×480 pixel pieces of art work very well on the LG Dare (the phone I use) as [...]
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Interesting to note Google has pulled the plug on its print-ad partnership with newspapers… at its high point the Google print ad network had more than 800 newspaper partners, but apparently didn’t provide the results Google or the papers wanted to see.. Spencer Spinnell, director of Google Print Ads writes at the print ads blog: [...]
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Well, here I am, about five weeks out from the marathon at Hyannis, and I found myself over the past week running through all the same mental equations and vacillations I did before Portland – how long should I make my longest long run and when should I start my taper. The books and Web [...]
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The LA Times’ online advertising revenue is now sufficient to cover the whole print and online editorial payroll, according to Times’ editor Russ Stanton. A friend of mine from the newsroom (thanks Al!) forwarded me this last week and I’ve been meaning to jot a note about it since — it’s a big deal. Despite [...]
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Tonight after we got the kids to bed, I made the leap and switched my blog (this site) over from the Lifetype CMS to WordPress 2.7. (Will be a work in progress for a while, so if things are a bit funny, that’s why.) Lifetype was great for years, but it doesn’t feel as [...]
I’ve had a copy of Scott Berkun’s Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management for somewhere out past six months now. I cracked it open when it first came in the mail and avidly devoured the first chapter (theory, history and introduction). Then, perhaps as a testament to the incredible number of projects cooking in my [...]
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