BillBlevins.com » Work

The Electronic Newspaper

Bill Blevins — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:13:25 +0000

Wal-Mart Launches Free Classifieds

Bill Blevins — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:58:26 +0000

Wal-Mart launched free online classifieds powered by Oodle. Huge win for Oodle in the partnerships column!

GateHouse Media video commercial

Bill Blevins — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:48:00 +0000

View from my office window

Bill Blevins — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:37:00 +0000

Thumbs-up

Bill Blevins — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:58:00 +0000

In my 13 years of building sites, I don’t think I’ve ever had the time to keep an eye on details to the point where my site validated “green” according to W3C rules.

Throughout today and tomorrow we are converting 174 of our sites to version 2.0 templates in our CMS and the coding for every single page using the new templates is validates XHTML 1.0 Strict!

Great job Nick, Jonathan and Howard!

RC Laser sailing in Alabama

Bill Blevins — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:39:00 +0000

RC Laser sailing in AL

I checked my RC Laser on my Delta flight last Friday night and sailed it for the past 3 days on Lay Lake in Alabama. Winds on Saturday were very light, giving me a first chance to get the hang of all of the controls and rigging on the boat.

On Chrismas day, winds were in the low 20′s with gusts to 30. The flattened “C” rig did great! The effects of the sail trim seemed more pronounced with the small sail and big wind. What fun!

Now I just have to figure out how NOT to turn the boat into a submarine going downwind in that heavy air!

Yahoo! Forms Strategic Partnership with Newspapers

Bill Blevins — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:51:00 +0000

Yahoo! Inc. today announced a strategic partnership with more than 150 daily U.S. newspapers to deliver search, graphical and classified advertising to consumers.

The partnership begins with recruitment advertising where newspapers will be using and feeding employment classifieds to Yahoo! HotJobs.

In addition, the newspapers plan to work together with Yahoo! to provide search, content, and local applications across the newspapers’ Web sites.

Initial participants:
Belo Corp.
Cox Enterprises
Hearst Corporation
Journal Register, Co.
Lee Enterprises
MediaNews Group Interactive
The E.W. Scripps Company

A conference call and Webcast, with participation from Yahoo! executives, will be held at 1:00 p.m. EST today. To access the listen-only conference line, dial 1-866-812-0403.

A live Webcast of the conference call, together with a presentation, can be accessed through the Belo Web site.

Following the conclusion of the conference call and Webcast, a replay will be archived on the websites of Yahoo!, Belo, Journal Register, Lee, Media General and Scripps beginning at 6:15 p.m. EST on November 20 until 11:59 p.m. on November 27.

Management superpowers

Bill Blevins — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:11:00 +0000

Sean Michael Kerner writes about Mike Shaver, co-founder of the Mozilla project, who recently presented on the topic of how people contribute to open source projects.

Here are two quotes that could be broadly applied to management in general:

To an employee (sic): “Think about what is the thing that you do best. Whatever it is, that’s your X factor, your superpower. Think about how you can you use that.”

On being the manager: “I help people match those things up. That’s my call to action.”

Dow Jones sells 6 papers to CNHI

Bill Blevins — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:06:00 +0000

Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. (CNHI) is buying six newspapers from Dow Jones. Two of the papers are in New York, The Daily Star of Oneonta and the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh.

Those two are just over an hour drive from my house. Chris and Wendy, you better stop by and say hello when you come up this way!