• Just An Online Minute... Positive Self Image On The Racks At Saks
    When I got the invitation from AMP3PR to attend "An Evening of Reinvention - from Hair to Toe & From the Inside Out" a couple of weeks ago, I said yes because Alyson Campbell is awesome and because it looked like a good night of positivity. When I saw that BettyConfidential.com (like your best friend -- only better), an online magazine focusing on lady stuff (my favorite -- the image of a young woman, looking perplexed, with the blurb "He won't let me see his apartment") was involved, I knew I had that little "online" piece for this post. Little …
  • Just An Online Minute... The Lazy Environmentalist On ... A...Zzzzz
    Lately I've been so mad at this city -- a city I used to be so in love with. I used to walk around with a smile on my face, waving at every pigeon, squiggling my toes in the Central Park grass while Capoara dance fighters stretched and wiggled, reading every splash of graffiti, smelling every traveling box of street meat and simply making sweet sweet love to the cacophony that IS the orchestrally boisterous island of Manhattan. Now it's a pit of bad news. New nomads fresh from lost homes, public urination and upchucking abound, whistles and catcalls and …
  • Just An Online Minute... Climbing the McGraw-Hill To Reach The Media Summit
    I always want to punch myself in the face when I see myself update my Google calendar with two events in one night. In theory, it's a great idea -- have a post on deck for Monday so the people have new content to read -- but usually by the time that day arrives I , well, want to punch myself in the face. At any rate (really? Any rate? Does anyone ever specify a rate?) I hit up the MediaSummit Cocktail reception at McGraw-Hill.
  • Just An Online Minute... EyeWonder Mixes Madness With Adness
    When I tried out for the basketball team in 7th grade, the coaches told us that they were observing how well we could take direction. If they told us to shoot, dribble, or squat a certain way, that's what we should do. I was probably 4'9" or 4'10," and my upper-body strength was about as powerful as a butterfly lifting a buffalo, so foul shots really had me down. I didn't make the team. In 8th grade I made the team because they didn't have enough kids trying out to make cuts without appearing cruel. Since then, I haven't really …
  • Just An Online Minute... The Terminally Awesome ANDY Awards
    I will never EVER whine and warble about having to trek to the IAC. If I'm 9 months pregnant, wearing stilettos, and eating a salad while running there, maybe I'll complain, but that's the only time. Why? Because I have discovered a new location nemesis - Terminal 5 (keep reading ANDY awards organizers, I'm not slamming the venue). I've only been to Terminal 5 to see the live music shows these young kids talk about, and the sound and sight lines are less than desirable - but sometimes I wonder if I'd have a different attitude if it wasn't so …
  • Just An Online Minute... Who's Schmoozing Who At VideoNuze Video Schmooze?
    If I could have teleported everywhere yesterday, I would have. It was one of the very few days I'm embarrassed to live in New York. That's right, St. Patty's Day, when it's less about celebrating heritage and more about getting blind drunk in public and honking up cabbage outside of Cosmic Cantina. I considered boarding up my windows and skipping VideoNuze's Broadband Video Leadership Evening, which was being precluded with the "VideoSchmooze" networking reception. I know -- I can feel your cringe at the mere volunteer self-naming of "schmooze," but heck -- I'm a fan of calling it as it …
  • Just An Online Minute... Pie = 3.14
    The funniest thing this past week and weekend has been the "movement" to show those wacky South By Southwestern Interactives (SXSWi) that we here in NYC can have fun without them. Attempts to prove this point have come in the form of... parties (because you know that's all those people are doing down there -- no sessions or keynotes or anything like that). WHO. CARES. Seriously? Do you really think that gathering a ton of the usual PR and media suspects in a bar mirrors the sessions, the sun, the music (hello, there is more than interactive going on), and …
  • Just An Online Minute... Yelp Kicks Beauty Into The Beastly
    Before I hit a Yelp (an online community of reviewers reviewing -- local reviews by the people who eat, get waxed, go to doctors, etc.) party, I like to see how it's been reviewed on Yelp. It might be awkward if every review of the event location was negative. And not just "the service was cruddy and I think there was a hair in my green beans," but more like "I was rudely dragged out of the restroom by a rat the size of Mayor Bloomberg and there was a full set of dentures in my foie gras." Not so …
  • Just An Online Minute... No Penicillin Shots At The "Stealing MySpace" Launch Party
    Let's play a game. It's a word/sound association game. I'm going to say a word or phrase and you're going to tell me the sound you are making when you hear the phrase. It'll be fun, I promise. Ready? "Tila Tequila Punch." The sound I made when I read that was "Blooffphhhpt" which was accompanied by the face I would make if my doctor sat me down with a clipboard full of unidentifiable STIs (oh, it's STI now, kids). If you made no sound at all its because you don't know who Tila Tequila is and you need to step …
  • Just An Online Minute... Prediction: 50% Of You Will Not Exist In Print In 10 Years
    I went to Magazines 24/7 "Navigating the new reality" with the intention of just covering the MPA's 3rd Annual Digital Awards but I found myself at the session "Print vs Web: The Editorial Challenge" writing feverishly and grunting in motivated agreement. It's a close-to-the-heart topic, it's no secret that I work for a publisher and we have two print mags (industry specific and quite awesome), so it also shouldn't be a secret that with new delivery channels come new challenges, arguments, and arm flailing. I was inspired by 75% of the panel; "old school" print mags embracing the scary (I'm …
« Previous Entries