• C'est moi

    VP of Marketing & Communications for Rackup, but nothing here reflects what my employer or colleagues think. In fact, they probably think it's all cray-cray.

    Jackie Danicki
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My first Final Friday

GE Party-o

Originally uploaded by dynamist.

Well, I didn’t really make it around to as many galleries and shops as I’d planned.
I went out on my own, hit Kaldi’s for a couple of pints, then I went to Mainly Art, where owner Mark Fisk did a great job of pretending not to be sick of me showing […]

The hazards of bringing value

Adriana has a report from the corporate front that is well worth a read, as much as doing so may make your gut wrench. It really is frustrating to think about all the opportunity-dodging going on inside businesses. On the positive side, she also has some great suggestions “for those who find themselves in a […]

Cincinnati Photo of the Day

Tyler Davidson Fountain

Originally uploaded by dynamist.

Walking from Over-the-Rhine to the Havana Martini Club last night with Joe and his friend Stepfanie, we swung by Fountain Square because Joe had a scoop that all the construction that’s been going on in the square had been mostly completed, and that the Tyler Davidson Fountain would be lit […]

“Reason is out. Emotion is in.”

A friend of mine, who is much older than me and has been a confirmed socialist since he was a teenager, always says to me whenever we get into some sort of political discussion, “JD, you have lots of facts on your side, but that’s not how I arrive at my views. Emotion has to […]

Newspaper site relaunches as blog

They said it couldn’t be done. It has been, and it’s a cracking execution. (I’m just surprised a British paper was the first to get there, to be honest. The ‘race to be second’ amongst British businesses that I saw close up during the early days of blog consultancy would not have had me put […]

A little soul

For reasons too uninteresting to go into, I’ve been spending some time surfing YouTube for old songs I like. Here are the treasures I’ve unearthed in 20 minutes.

God, don’t hold this against me.

True talent

Yesterday I was walking down the street and found myself thinking about how sad I’d be to learn that Amy Winehouse wasn’t nearly as good a singer as I believed her to be. (Really, that’s about as cerebral as I get.) So last night, no matter how much the outcome might hurt me, I decided […]