7 posts and columns on Don Graham

Why Is the Washington Post at the Top of My Facebook Feed Yet Again?

in Social on November 14, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

After uninstalling and hiding the Washington Post Social Reader App but still seeing stories from it front and center, I asked what was going on, and how I could make it stop.
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Washington Post Chairman — and Facebook Director — Don Graham Talks About Social Reader (Video)

in Media on September 29, 2011 at 10:01 am PT

I used to work for this man and, believe you me, you should listen to what he has to say about the future of news.
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The Men and No Women of Web 2.0 Boards (BoomTown's Talking to You: Twitter, Facebook, Zynga, Groupon and Foursquare)

in News on December 21, 2010 at 2:44 pm PT

Simply put: The five top Web 2.0 superstar companies have no women on their board of directors. As in zero.

BoomTown Decodes Google CEO Schmidt's Shut-Up-You-Whiny-News-Folk Op-Ed (So You Don't Have To)!

in News on December 3, 2009 at 1:30 pm PT

Google CEO Eric Schmidt did one of his patented throat-clearers in an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal today and it pretty much begs for translation. Well, BoomTown shall not tarry from the task of decoding the extra-long rumination from the head of Google, who was responding to the recent spate of aggressive attacks by traditional media publishers. They have blamed the search giant for everything from their current business woes to the destruction of journalism to Tiger Woods’s dicey marital troubles. Okay, not that! But the rest for sure.
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Memo to Don Graham: Thar He Blows…

in News on May 14, 2008 at 8:56 am PT

Another day, another tech blog eruption featuring Michael “The Volcano” Arrington of TechCrunch and, this time, Wired’s Betsy “Ain’t-Backing-Down” Schiffman. When last we checked in with Arrington, he was elegantly telling Chris Shipley that her longstanding tech conference might want to take a dirt nap. Specifically: “Demo needs to die.” But that’s not all!
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Kara SuperPokes Yossi Vardi and Some Dow Jones Online Guy at Google Zeitgeist

in News on October 11, 2007 at 1:55 am PT

I stopped on by Google’s Zeitgeist yesterday to say hello to Washington Post CEO and Chairman Don Graham, who was attending the search giant’s annual confab of powermongers, where they talk about big issues and mostly engage in Olympic schmoozing. I had used my old boss Graham to make a point about the immature nature of Facebook apps in a post Tuesday. (He had sent me a digital “Hot Potato” that prompted my diatribe, so I wanted to make sure he knew it was not personal that I was not tossing it back or wherever one was supposed to toss one.)

The Children's Hour: Facebook Apps Are for Toddlers (There, We Said It)

in News on October 9, 2007 at 11:37 am PT

Fine, call me a grumpy old lady, because I don’t want to pass around a toasty complex carbohydrate globally. Right now on Facebook, I have been trying to decide what to do near on two weeks or more, after receiving a “Hot Potato” tossed to me by my old boss, Washington Post Co. CEO and Chairman Don Graham. For those who don’t know what a digital Hot Potato is: It is an widget (also called a third-party app) created by a very nice-looking group of guys at a design outfit called Hungry Machine for the Facebook platform. “You have to pass it on and watch it travel around the world. 27,012 other people did!” With all due respect to Don Graham (who is a mentor of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, by the way), Hungry Machine and all world-trotting spuds, I don’t think so.