You get a lot of emails, many of which are junk, unimportant or even offensive. Filters try hard to keep out the crap, but sometimes they just don’t work. What’s most aggravating to me, maybe to others, is the regularly sent messages that start out with, “I’m sure you’ve missed my recent in-box message to […]

So, been watching politics? Chances are, you have. The presidential race is grinding along with more twists and turns than the Blue Ridge Parkway, and there are still three long months ahead before the election. Leading up to the November faceoff are more debates and other general hubbub. Many times it strikes me that cable […]

If you thought TV news was dead, you may want to reconsider. Viewership of local network-affiliated TV news increased slightly in morning and early evening time slots in 2014 over 2013, according to Pew Research Center analysis of Nielsen Media Research data. Local broadcast TV advertising also increased. Things appear even rosier this year, if […]

Today, we’re in the throes of a major political windstorm. The breezes are blowing at gale force, and it’s anybody’s guess where this whole mess will end up. One of the major factors to date, and one that will certainly have more impact in the future, is the use of social media by candidates, also-rans […]

You see it everywhere – people on larger than normal smartphones, typing, talking and texting their way through the day. What once was took “bag phones,” faxes and America Online (AOL) now can be executed by a unified, single source – the handheld phone. The computer got miniaturized, the flip phone got slightly bigger, and […]