by Dave Zornow

On a day when the world mourns the loss of Steve Jobs and the tech industry is iWriting about the iMac-iPod-iPhone-iPad, it’s valuable to remember that the original Man-In-Black didn’t always have the Midas touch. Which makes his successes that much more remarkable.

The power of the unconscious mind, the effect of emotions on thinking and our need to be part of a larger social structure were some of the points made by the NYT’s David Brooks’ keynote speech at the 2011 ARF AMS Conference.

It’s college graduation time. Which means hugging, crying, packing, moving and worrying about what the future holds.

This year’s graduation at Ithaca College in upstate New York connected baby boomer parents with their recent graduates via the shocking realization that if Dustin Hoffman’s character in the graduate was real, he would be retiring this year. And what a working career he would have had.

Although the dynamics of newspapers may have changed, what made newspapermen dynamic still lives on.

Fox News’ slant on Comedy Central’s Sanity/Fear rally raises questions about what is fair and balanced. But is the joke on us for even asking the question?

A little after Wimbledon and just before the MLB pennant races heat up, a lot of people with foreign names wear spandex and race bicycles crazy fast up and down mountains in a far away land we love to visit and Fox News loves to criticize. Beginning today in Rotterdam and ending three weeks later in Paris, it’s the Tour de France.

2010 has been good to the TV ratings business but the 2009 revenue story for TV’s scorekeeper wasn’t as rosy.

Will Apple’s iPad save print or put the final nail in paper-based media’s coffin? Here’s one dream sequence about how things could work out for the best.

Forty years ago this summer, Woodstock was the place to be…or so the media and fading memories of today’s baby boomers would have you believe. Peter Gordon, who spent summers in the Catskills not far from the Bethel, NY site of the Woodstock Music & Arts Festival, remembers it all quite differently.

Although Internet Advertising may be the fair haired child of the ROI set, it has its share of measurement problems.