PAUL NEWMAN IS GONE
 
The sad news isn’t new.  Paul Newman died over the weekend, of lung cancer.
 
He was one of the angry young men of the ‘50s who projected the sullen rebelliousness that characterized a whole class of actors (and actor/singers if you include Elvis Presley).
 
James Dean was another one of them, his career cut [...]

How effective is Streaming Video on your web site Part 2?
So in my last blog I discussed how streaming video can make a huge difference on a web site. Now I will finish up with a description of each and a little about the overall impact.
Description of each:
Auto Tours are a personalized Virtual walk-around. A [...]

How effective is Streaming Video on your web site?
After spending almost 10 years in the Automotive business, most of which in Business Development, I learned a few things about what to and NOT to do on the web. We struggled with posting or not posting price, picture positioning and fancy stuff like making the pictures [...]

HERE’S TO THE GRAPE
 
They’re harvesting the grapes in the Napa Valley Wine country right now, pulling tons of juicy red and white grapes from the vines that dot the hillsides and nestle in the nooks and crannies of some of the prettiest scenery this side of Paradise (the real one, not the one in Northern [...]

Do You Know What’s In Your Water?
Our water supply is in danger.  Here in California, we may not be in a “drought” per se, but it has been noted by some of our local water agencies (in an effort to remain politically correct) that this is a “dry year”.  Furthermore, our infrastructures are suffering.  Only [...]

Missing the Old Skool Cartoons
The other day my three-year-old grand daughter was watching Saturday morning television.  It’s hard to resist a sweet little toddler when she says, “Papa, don’t you wanna sit with me?”
 I gotta tell ya, cartoons are certainly not the same as they were back in the 1960’s!  Back in the 60’s we [...]

CONFRONTING ANIMAL CRUELTY
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”. — Mahatma Gandhi.
Why do most people regard human life as sacred, yet some have absolutely no regard for the welfare of animals?  Right now, there are 13,966 cases of animal abuse in the United [...]

THE OTHER MAGICAL FRUIT

My buddy, Tom Keith, who produces and directs all of our video work here at Soundstrategies, has said, more than once, “Fruit is magic, just plain magic”. 
 
“Yeah, right”, has been my response to most those outbursts.
 
But then I started thinking about it.  It was kind of magical back in North Carolina when [...]

A NEW WAY TO RAISE YOUR BOTTOM LINE
It’s hard to believe it has come to this.  There is a backlash against emails.  And it’s being led by some of the people you would not suspect.  For example, engineers at chip maker, Intel, have declared Fridays to be email free.
 
But they aren’t the only ones.  The [...]

 
 
COULD YOU LIVE IN THE 1950′S?
 My beloved Aunt Cindy is the most anti-change person I know.    She refuses to log on to a computer, talk on a cell phone, or pump her own gas.    I don’t think she’s figured out how to play CD’s, heat coffee in a microwave, or watch anything but real time, [...]