You no doubt saw that we just launched our new website two days ago, and we wanted to get the word out. How to do that? Send a silly e-mail with a few sentences? How could I know if that was effective? I turned to one solution – Vertical Response, that I was familiar with, … Read more
If you don’t go out and vote today, you (in my humble opinion) lose the right to complain for the next four years. (Continued after the Jump)Exemptions are available for those of you to young to vote today, just fill out the proper forms, in triplicate, submit them with a self-addressed stamped envelope, certified, return-receipt … Read more
Friends, Romans, Countrymen! I’ll take as a matter of personal privledge the opportunity to share with you my new website – www.JohnHarrington.com! I am very excited about this new site, and the bigger pictures, and ease of use for the prospective client. Why a new site now? Well, both Presidential candidates are talking about change, … Read more
There were just a few outcomes for what remains of Digital Railroad, or so I thought. One was closing it’s doors, another, being acquired by PhotoShelter, then there was potential suitor liveBooks, Mark Ippolito, and then the never-was-gonna-happen Getty and Corbis.What hadn’t crossed my radar was Newscom, when rumor spread Thursday evening of a company … Read more
Here is the official statement from PhotoShelter, regarding Digital Railroad:PHOTOSHELTER CLARIFIES DIGITAL RAILROAD SITUATION WITH DIABLO MANAGEMENT GROUP:COMPLETE DRR SITE SHUTDOWN PROBABLE AT 11:59PM PST ON OCTOBER 31Photographers & agencies to get more time to save their workNew York, NY, October 30, 2008 – In an effort to bring some clarity to the Digital Railroad … Read more
So, my good friends at liveBooks have got a great deal for you, and I’ll just put the number out there, so as to not bury the lead:25% off a liveBooks site if you survived Digital Railroad’s demise and now need a web presence.(Continued after the Jump)You have until November 14th to take advantage of … Read more
Well, it seems that Fast Company is none-to-concerned about Jill Greenbergs’ bad reputation (Jill Greenberg: Open Mouth, Insert Foot, 9/12/08) and has assigned her to photograph Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane for their latest cover story.It surely helps, that the opening paragraph of the article ( Seth MacFarlane’s $2 Billion Family Guy Empire, 11/08) describes … Read more
If you are looking to preserve your website’s look and feel, in order to transfer to a place like liveBooks, or hire a designer, while your site is still up, go into Adobe’s Acrobat Professional program. Go to the “Advanced” drop-down menu, and choose “Web capture”. Choose “create PDF from/Append web page…”, and enter in … Read more
The front page of DRR says:When you visit the Digital Railroad website, this is the message you get:MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTSDigital Railroad Suspending Operations – Added Oct. 28, 2008To our valued Members:We’re sorry to inform you that Digital Railroad (DRR) has shut down.On October 15th we reported that the company had reduced its staff and was aggressively … Read more
There are 1,900 or so of you out here that need to read this message. The rest of you can just ignore it. The problem is, those that need to know what I am writing about have buried their head in the sand. As I am writing this, my own migration from Digital Railroad to … Read more
