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Flyte New Media’s Rich Brooks is a Social Butterfly

Hanging in Flyte New Media President Rich Brooks’ office is a Spiderman calendar. Standing in his office is a cardboard cutout of the red, blue and black costumed Marvel superhero. “I love the ‘With great power comes great responsibility’ bit,” Brooks told me. I am more a fan of Peter Parker than anything else. I […]

Does ‘Maine, Obviously’ reinforce negative stereotypes?

On Monday I announced the launch of Maine, Obviously, a Tumblr-based collection of news stories that feel [to me] as though they could only have been produced in Maine. From people who live in or have ties to the state the response has been largely positive. On a few occasions, however, it has been suggested […]