by Mark O'Brien | Aug 4, 2015
Since I don’t believe in accidents, I wasn’t surprised when a recent spate of vendor acquisitions in the insurance industry coincided with my finding a related, 10-year-old article while rummaging through the bowels of The Chautauqua Center for Synchronous...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 28, 2015
In the course of our research for a book we once created as a specialty publishing project — Origin/Destination: 75 Years of the New England Water Environment Association — we learned that it took the residents of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, 50 years to figure out the...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 24, 2015
I don’t know that LeAnne Brinkies is familiar with Hamlet, let alone Queen Gertrude. As the Bard might say, ’tis a pity. Had she been so familiar, she might have gone about “Native advertising – the editorial vs advertorial debate” in a...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 21, 2015
I came across a book review in The Financial Times over the past weekend in which the author, Julian Baggini, finding a common thread running through the three books he reviewed, wrote something arresting — something that directly contradicts the popular and...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 13, 2015
I need your help. Amazon is being sued for not saying it doesn’t sell something. That actually has nothing to do with us. But here’s where you come in: If two wrongs don’t make a right, can you help me understand why two negatives make a positive?...
