Archive for March, 2009

Tesla Attempts to Point Where American Cars are Headed March 30, 2009 1 Comment

Today’s news that the White House has rejected GM and Chrysler’s proposals for new federal bailout money was certainly a hit to the Detroit auto scene.  However, hope is not all lost within the American automotive industry.  Last week, far from Detroit in LA (via silicon valley) Tesla, the new consumer electric car company unveiled [...]

Brainstorm: Leveraging the Marketing Power of Twitter March 26, 2009 No Comments

It’s no secret that Twitter is still trying to figure out how to make money.  You’ll see from this article that the founders of the company readily admit that fact.  New ventures such as ExecTweets and MarchTweetness are good ideas for niche sites that get sponsored by companies in conjunction with an advertising partner (Federated [...]

Amazon’s Kindle – The Next Great Mobile Platform or Just a Novel Device? March 24, 2009 1 Comment

It’s been well written that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has not been forward with the sales numbers for the Kindle, thus it is difficult to compare how the device has done as compared to other new media devices like iPod.  Some analysts have done some work on trying to uncover the truth around the sales [...]

Weekend Comedy – NBA Basketball Theme Song March 20, 2009 1 Comment

Hahaha – John Tesh, Hilarious:

Hat tip Tim Duffy.

Are We Seeing the Beginning of Economic Recovery? March 19, 2009 No Comments

So between Unbiasd and NYTExplorer, I tend to consume a lot of news in a given day.  Both this week and last, I’ve been surprised and downright excited to see certain signs that we are indeed on the road to recovery, and the dire economic downturn isn’t going to hold us down forever.  To be [...]

Unbiasd.com Adds Video to Site’s Homepage March 18, 2009 No Comments

Check it out if you get a second: http://unbiasd.com. Unbiasd – the site focused on news media bias has quickly transformed into a news video site.
Also, I’ve added a Music section to this blog, sort of an ‘adrianmott.com radio’ of sorts – Here, I’ll feature music I’m currently listening to, as well as video [...]

The End is Near for the Seattle PI – SF Chronicle up next? March 16, 2009 1 Comment

Near for most, here for some – News came in today that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer would print its final edition on Tuesday and go to a web only format.  Essentially this is something that their parent company Hearst has been planning to do for some time, though a front was up that they were attempting [...]