Meet Me in Antigua

05Dec09

Back on the road: Tomorrow, I fly to the Caribbean for the 48th annual charter yacht show on Antigua.
I’m especially excited this year because, on behalf of my website CharterWave, I’m hosting a three-day series of new media seminars to help yacht charter brokers understand everything from Twitter to blogs to electronic publishing.
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The New Age of Kim

30Nov09

I finally have succumbed.
It’s been a long stretch of holding out in my personal little Luddite bunker. Yes, I build websites and am as digitally advanced in that respect as any other journalist, but I have seriously avoided hand-held gadgets for fear of altering increasingly large chunks of my day-to-day life.
The Blackberry has been my [...]

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The Affluent Page “Explains Away” Its Debt

05Nov09

I continue to be ignored by The Affluent Page magazine and its publisher, Mario Jourdan, who owes me more than $4,500 for writing and editing work completed as long ago as August 2008. I won a ruling against the magazine in New York Civil Court this past July, and Jourdan continues to ignore that, too. [...]

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Meet Me in Fort Lauderdale

28Oct09

As you read this, I am preparing to immerse myself in a scene much like the one shown above. This photo (by my talented marine journalism colleague Forest Johnson) is of last year’s Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. This year’s sprawling festival of boating mania opens to the press tomorrow, and to the general public [...]

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Subpoena Issued at The Affluent Page

02Oct09

I received confirmation this morning that an information subpoena has been served on Mario Jourdan at The Affluent Page magazine regarding the more than $4,500 the magazine owes me for writing and editing work dating back to August 2008.
The subpoena for bank information has been issued because Jourdan and The Affluent Page continue to ignore [...]

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Meet Me in NYC

11Sep09

I happily have accepted an invitation to be a panelist in Manhattan on September 24 for a program titled “Taking Your Website to the Next Level,” sponsored by the American Society of Journalists and Authors. I’ll be on the dais alongside the co-founder of an Internet marketing company, a CUNY Graduate School of Journalism writing [...]

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