Writing

A short shelf, kept on purpose.


This site used to carry fifty posts. Most of them were guest articles accepted in exchange for a link — the usual arrangement, and worth exactly what it cost. They have been retired. What is left is work that was written to say something: trade reporting, two early pieces on machine decisioning, and one piece of craft that is still the fastest way to do the thing it describes.

2018

Are analytics and artificial intelligence doing all the thinking for marketers?

Written before the current wave, and the question held up better than most of what was written after it.

2017

Artificial Intelligence and the Buyer Experience

An early look at what machine decisioning does to the moment a customer chooses.

2018

How to Quickly Reduce Image File Size for Many Images at Once in Photoshop

A craft piece. Still the fastest way to do it, which is why it is still here.

2012

Boston.com’s “Insights” Program: a Model for Cross-Branded Marketing

Trade reporting on one of the first newsroom programmes to fold advertiser content into the news stream — the thing everyone now calls native advertising.

2012

Fiscal Cliff Could Dramatically Impact IT at Midsize Businesses

Written for a client who never ran it. Published here as a sample, which is what it always was.

Not a blog, and not resuming as one. If you want to talk about writing, say so directly.