It’s an iPod World, continued

Last week, I wrote an op-ed for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about how the new video iPod is an example of the new business paradigm that has emerged — that it’s not enough to just give the consumer what they want, you now also have to give it to them in a way that they […]

Jason Hartley, Just Another Soldier

Jason Hartley, Just Another Soldier

Here’s my conversation with Jason Hartley, who spent a year with his boots on the ground in Iraq as a US Army infantryman. He blogged about his experiences in real time until the Army shut him down and filed charges against him — but those stories are now in his book “Just Another Soldier.” We […]

Zip It Until You Zip It

One of the rules of Being A Man is that you don’t talk in the Men’s Room. You go in, take care of business, and get out. It doesn’t matter if you’re alone, or with a buddy, or run into a guy you know. A quick head nod hello is permissible, but no talking, no […]

Ed Bradley of “60 Minutes”

Ed Bradley of “60 Minutes”

Ed Bradley of “60 Minutes” called into my show this afternoon to talk about a piece he’s doing this Sunday on Michael Jordan. We talked about Jordan’s gambling, his competitiveness, and what it’s like to go to a basketball fantasy camp and have Jordan trash-talk you. I also asked Bradley whether he has any interest […]

It’s an iPod World

This op-ed piece appears in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 19, 2005. NEW MEDIA: Businesses better get with the programBy Paul Harris Apple’s introduction last week of a new iPod capable of playing video clips and TV shows should send shockwaves through every company (media and otherwise) that hasn’t grasped America’s new business paradigm: It’s […]