I grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, then moved to Atlanta to work for CNN. I married Robin Faigeles Abrams on June 9, 1996, and moved back to the Boston area in 1997. We have no children, but we are the proud owners of 11 fish - one large carp named Phil, eight goldfish, and two black fish of undetermined species.

Please allow me to say hello or welcome.

Work Information

I work as a senior producer at inc.com, the web site associated with the small business magazine, Inc. Some of what I do is the Discussions area and My inc.com. It's a great group of people, and the site is improving a lot lately.

Before this, I worked as a producer at Lycos, Inc, which definitely had a higher profile. Among the many hats I wore there was "News Guru," in charge of piecing together news coverage on everything under the sun. Among the things I put together were the "flash pages," quick summaries of stories with links to relevant stuff all over the web. Examples, some updated since and some not, range from the Clinton Scandals to the Spice Girls to Bloomsday.

I was also in charge of keyword insertion in search results, and a bunch of miscellaneous other things. I also produced the Community Guides, an ill-fated attempt at an automated web directories using collaborative filtering. The pages still live in the realms of abandoned Lycos products, on all sorts of odd topics like Zen Buddhism

CNNI Newsroom Picture For four years before that, I was a Producer/Writer at CNN International, working at the CNN Center in Atlanta (seen to the right). I produced a daily newscast World News Europe,seen at 22:00 CET daily. The show focussed on news of European politics and society, while also including the day's important stories from other regions of the world.

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Personal Quirks

My main personal indulgence is a love of tea. At home, I choose from 32 varieties of tea (as well as 8 types of herbal tea). My favorite tea link used to be The World of Tea, but lately I do more of my fancy tea shopping at Upton Tea Importers.
My favorite place to take tea is Tea Tray in the Sky, a wonderful tea room just north of Harvard Square in Cambridge. Which brings me to my love of good eating. I enjoy eating at good restaurants (my favorite is probably Tuscan Grille in Waltham), cooking (my specialties are chicken cutlets in various forms and desserts), and watching the TV Food Network (especially "Cooking Live" and "The Iron Chef").
I am also a news junkie. I take an alumnus's interest in Lycos News, and CNN. But I find myself reading news online at Yahoo!. They do a lot of things I wish I could have done at Lycos.
Following the news, like following the NBA, is more fun if you have certain favorite countries to root for. So I get excited whenever certain stories are in the news. Among them are the Comoro Islands, a small chain in the Indian Ocean that have seen 18 coups in two decades of independence, including many led by notorious French mercenary Bob Denard.
Another favorite story is the Biker War in Scandinavia. El Bandidos are fighting it out in Stockholm and Copenhagen against the Hell's Angels, with anti-tank weapons. The very idea of this happening in tranquil Scandinavia appeals to my sense of absurdity. As far as search engines tell me, there is no web site link for this story.

Contact Information

E-Mail: Jabrams@Mailcity.com

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