Barnes & Noble has decided not to stock any Amazon published books in its 700-plus stores, according to a statement emailed to Bloomberg Businessweek's Brad Stone and quietly broken on Google+ Tuesday.
Barnes & Noble Chief Merchandising Officer Jaime Carey said the decision is based on "Amazon's continued...
Posted November 15, 2011 | 11/15/11 10:40 AM ET
This show runs weekly on Google Plus.
My special guest on this edition of Google Plus Week is Adam Guerbuez, the Montreal marketer who got sued for $873 million by Facebook and lost. Banned for life from Facebook, Guerbuez has been spending a lot of time...
Posted November 5, 2011 | 11/05/11 02:13 PM ET
This article was first published on Google Plus.
Like most journalists, I was saddened to hear of the passing of CBS legend Andy Rooney.
To most young people, Andy was simply that cranky old guy who read a short essay at the end of the news magazine...
Posted September 19, 2011 | 09/19/11 02:58 PM ET
How the would-be mighty have fallen.
FBI agents (and TV crews) descended the afternoon of Sept. 14 on the Warren County home of Tareq and Michaele Salahi to investigate allegations that Mrs. Salahi had been kidnapped.
Rather than being held against her will, Mrs. Salahi had instead run off with...
Posted September 11, 2011 | 09/11/11 03:00 PM ET
The webmaster for the Texas Police Chief's Association spoke exclusively to me to tell his story about being on the receiving end of an attack by the international hacking group Anonymous and his subsequent dealings with the FBI.
Web designer Scott Swain says he discovered that...
Posted August 29, 2011 | 08/29/11 03:02 PM ET
Google Plus doesn't allow brand pages yet. You are supposed to use your real name or the one you go by in real life. So if Madonna's PR people put a page up and they update it, is it Madonna's page? Or a brand...
Posted August 22, 2011 | 08/22/11 01:12 PM ET
This week marked a move to our new rural Virginia TV studio which was visited by a 300-400 lb. black bear about 30 minutes before taping. (We didn't ask if he was sent from Wall Street to opine on the Google-Motorola Mobility purchase.)
My...
Posted August 17, 2011 | 08/17/11 02:51 PM ET
This week we continued our experiment in democracy by opening our show prep sheet to editing by Huffington Post visitors and the general public! Anyone could add topics and edit the document -- anonymously if they so chose. Watching all those people add topics...
Posted August 8, 2011 | 08/08/11 05:01 PM ET
As an experiment, I covered the lockdown following a reported gunman at nearby Virginia Tech Aug. 4 exclusively on Google Plus, the world's newest social network. There were definite pros and cons versus getting information out via Twitter, Facebook and my traditional...
Posted July 31, 2011 | 07/31/11 01:35 PM ET
Google Plus experts and users mixed it up on the first episode of Google Plus Week Friday night. It is the first weekly web TV show on and about the world's newest social network.
The premiere featured discussion ranging from the technical-new circles features...
Posted April 13, 2011 | 04/13/11 02:05 PM ET
Complete transcript and audio at McDermottReport.com.
LYNCHBURG - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said President Barack Obama is holding military families hostage in his budget battle with House Republicans and said that potential Republican rival Donald Trump's newest show is 'being Apprentice...
Posted March 13, 2011 | 03/13/11 09:25 PM ET
The University of Chicago student newspaper published a story March 8 describing an otherwise uneventful lecture by Burger Kind CEO Bernardo Hees.
Then they threw in this aside:
Hees added that the hard work he put into his MBA at the University of Warwick in England was...
Posted March 7, 2011 | 03/07/11 08:46 AM ET
Update:
Michaele Salahi has been asked to leave Dr. Drew Pinsky's VH1 show Celebrity Rehab because she has no addiction, according to celebrity gossip site TMZ.
Earlier today, RadarOnline reported that Michael Lohan--with cameras rolling--left rehab to kick Michaele hubby Tareq Salahi out of the apartment...
Posted February 23, 2011 | 02/23/11 03:17 PM ET
Wisconsin blogger Jack Craver was on hand when The Daily Show brought a camel to Madison in a failed attempt to humorously illustrate the absurdity of comparisons between Egyptian democracy protesters and striking Wisconsin teachers.
It was not pretty.
The camel did not walk well on ice. It...
Posted February 21, 2011 | 02/21/11 01:15 PM ET
Approximately 70 federal, state and local firefighters were on the ground Sunday afternoon battling a wildfire that spread to 2,000 acres of Shenandoah National Park, causing the closure of the northern portion of the popular and normally scenic Skyline Drive.
60 more firefighters were en route...
Posted February 3, 2011 | 02/03/11 11:55 AM ET
Fox News host Sean Hannity addressed the controversy surrounding a top Virginia exorcist Catholic priest at the end of his Hannity cable news show Wednesday night and made note of the unusually favorable treatment he has been getting from Huffington Post commenters.
After playing portions of a now-infamous 2007 exchange...
Posted February 2, 2012 | 02/02/12 12:00 PM ET