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WINNING NOW: PHIL KNIGHT vs JERRY JONES

January 16, 2024 by

Winning now, right now, is more important the older you get. It’s like that when you have more seasons behind you than you do ahead. Phil Knight is eighty-five; Jerry Jones is eighty-one. Would it be too much to ask that they go out winners? First for the Ducks:

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WELLNESS BLOG vs BLOG WELLNESS

December 15, 2023 by

A ‘wellness blog’ does what it says: promote health and wellness to an audience who ignores their own health and wellness. If you’re reading a blog for ‘wellness,’ if you’re doing your own ‘research,’ be sure better ideas come from credible sources. Taking medical advice, or simple health advice, from a moron is not the […]

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FINISHING SCHOOL FOR THE UNFINISHED

December 13, 2023 by

If you’ve never heard of it, a finishing school is where women become ladies. Ladies? What kind of ladies? Ladies who grew up expecting others to know what they’d learned in finishing school. To that we say, “Good luck.”

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ATTENTION ECONOMY PAID IN EXPOSURE . . . TO WHAT

November 19, 2023 by

The attention economy is an agreement between those seeking, and needing attention, and those who accommodate them. But what about the end-user, the audience, you know, The People I like to call ‘the rest of us?’ We still matter since the ‘I’m paying attention’ economy is based on time, not money. No money for those […]

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IMPORTANT INFLUENCERS ARE OFTEN DISAPPOINTED?

September 7, 2023 by

Important influencers, important people, play a numbers game. It’s their money, their followers, their address. Added together it all means, “Why won’t people pay more attention to me?” Here’s why, beginning with ‘The Money:’

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TOURIST ATTRACTIONS FOR NORTH BEND’S FUTURE

August 26, 2023 by

Tourist attractions for non-golfers on their way to Bandon? If you’re not golfing, why go to Bandon? When daddy brings the family to town and parks his jet in North Bend before heading for Bandon Dunes, what’s the family do while he’s gone?

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GOOD READERS 2023 TOP TEN POSTS, SO FAR

May 27, 2023 by

Good readers decide what makes the Top 10 on boomerpdx. But are they actual readers or casual scrollers seeking something based on a headline? Which are you? What makes you stop and stick around on any blog? Let’s do a test beginning with a question:

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HGTV ACCUSATIONS BY TIKTOKERS? UH OH

May 3, 2023 by

HGTV accusations by anyone is a surprise around here. My wife is a fan, so that makes me a fan since we’re married and like spending time together. All I’ve ever seen are happy ending, which is quite a change from one of ‘our’ other favorite shows: Law & Order: SVU. The difference between the […]

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FOOLED ONCE? FOOLED TWICE? WHAT’S NEXT

April 18, 2023 by

Fooled once happens to the best of us, and everyone else. Then you get fooled again and it’s different, but not for you because you might be blinded by love, money, power, then more love, more money, more power. If that’s your excuse, it’s not everyone’s. Love and power are nice, but the driver is, […]

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FAMILY ROADSHOW WITHOUT THE ANTIQUES

February 27, 2023 by

The Family Roadshow is the same as the show on OPB but with livelier stories. Instead of, “This belonged to my great-great grandmother and it’s been handed down generation after generation,” why not The Truth? “I stole this off my grandpa at his wake,” Or, “This book used to be my Mom’s. She’s still looking […]

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