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The Lowdown
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March 10, 2008 Post
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Here's the The Lowdown
from DNJournal.com! Updated daily to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name
industry!
Compiled
by Ron Jackson (Editor/Publisher)
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In
a move that may be the wave of the media future
a half-dozen web, print and electronic media outlets in Silicon
Valley (including the local NBC-TV affiliate
on Channel 11 - have joined
forces to form the Virtual Valley Network.
If you read our February
Cover Story about
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Boulevards New Media
founder Dan Pulcrano it won't surprise you to
learn that Pulcrano is in the middle of this
groundbreaking venture. His SanJose.com and LosGatos.com
websites are part of the new network as is his weekly
Silicon Valley print newspaper The Metro.
Establishment of the
Virtual Valley Network comes on the heels of more
layoffs at the area's major newspaper, the San
Jose Mercury-News. Pulcrano said, "We are
concerned about the consolidation, layoffs and
disinvestment in local publishing and want to make sure
that communities here are well covered. We will be expanding
our news coverage and adding resources."
Virtual Valley's editorial director Eric
Johnson said "Please send resumes, we
are looking for news writers and editors who know this
market well." |
Dan
Pulcrano |
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Jessica
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In a
related note, Pulcrano finished his term as
Chairman of AssociatedCities.com
last week and Jessica Bookstaff, owner of Durango.com
and PigeonForge.com was elected as the new
Chair at the leading geodomain organization's
annual board meeting in Cancun, Mexico
Saturday.
The
night before, another Associated Cities board
member, David Castello and his wife Natalie
from Castello
Cities Internet Network (owners of
PalmSprings.com, Nashville.com and many
others), visited my wife and I at our Tampa,
Florida home and later that evening we had the
pleasure of their company for dinner at a Tampa
landmark, Bern's Steak House. David and
Natalie are wine lovers so I knew they would enjoy
Bern's which has |
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the largest wine
collection of any restaurant in the world -
approximately 1 million bottles (100,000
bottles are in the cellar and another 900,000 bottles are in
a
warehouse next door). After
dinner Bern's treated us to a tour of their
famous cellar (photo below).
Left
to right: Ron Jackson, David Castello,
Natalie Lambert and Diana Jackson
checking out the wine cellar at Bern's
Steak House in Tampa Friday night
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(Posted
March 10, 2008) |
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