Journalism’s “silly season” of lazy hazy “dog days” brings less news and leaves more time and space to be filled with quirks, quacks and quiddities: The new no battery mechanical system being developed in England, the Flyrbrid, successfully powered this race car at LeMans this year. The Detroit Bureau tells of “a British-designed ‘flybrid’” that… Continue Reading
Awards, Honors and Events
Lindsay Brooke’s recount of the development of the Chevrolet Volt for the SAE’s Vehicle Electrification web site won the “Best of the Internet” award at The 20th Annual International Automotive Media Awards. The deadline passed for nominating books for this year’s Dean Batchelor Awards (judges need time to read them). But the Articles, Audio/visual (TV,… Continue Reading
Time For An Evening News Product?
Is it time for an evening news product? Can drivers be trusted to think? Are car enthusiasts are force with which to be reckoned?
How Tos For The Auto Industry
“Getting Your Ass Kicked By A Really Nice Guy,” penned by David Koretz for MediaPost, uses http://www.craigslist.org versus www.AutoTrader.com as a cautionary about what happens to a company when a guy who thinks completely differently comes along. Koretz says it should “scare the hell” out of publishers when “intrepid entrepreneurs figure out how to displace… Continue Reading
Is A Car A Mobile Device?
Waltzing in the clouds with our disembodied awareness is a likelihood with problematic results. On the one hand, it can expand our consciousness by making it easier to wirelessly store and retrieve data through any device that provides Internet access. On the other hand, it will hasten what Cori Ferman terms “the Mediapocalypse.” Not the… Continue Reading