The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDBhg60UNI&hl=en&fs=1] A few years ago, Robin Sloan, who is now CTO at Current produced this incredibly prescient video. It still holds true. As the narrator says, and not to be too trite, ‘it is the best of times, it...
Read moreJury Duty You Can’t Avoid
School was never like this….. Yesterday, I was on Jury Duty. Jury Duty at CUNY. That’s City University of New York’s graduate school of journalism. The school is fortunate enough to have Prof. Jeff Jarvis teaching a course there...
Read moreA House of Cards
But at the end of the day, someone has to make the original content and be paid for it. Until now, that someone has been newspapers. But I think we are looking at the end of newspapers, and that is a...
Read moreWomen and Children First
And we had 70% market share…. The Day of Reckoning has arrived. Or at least it has started. Sam Zell’s Tribune Company goes Chapter 11. The New York Times is so close to the edge that it has to...
Read moreThe Reckoning
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyRepUqCN4c&hl=en&fs=1] My old friends Pam Yates and Paco de Onis own Skylight Pictures. They have been documentary filmmakers for years. Real documentary filmmakers. Pam won the Academy Award for Documentaries a few years ago for her film about Guatemala....
Read moreTC Academy New York
Today we conclude another session of the Travel Channel Academy in NY. This afternoon, we will certify another 40 gradautes of the Academy. We have sessions scheduled for 2009 in NY, DC and Santa Barbara, but places are already...
Read moreThe New Star Ledger
[blip.tv ?posts_id=1543020&dest=-1] Star Ledger VJ Andre Malok’s tour de force. Take a look at the quality of the reporting, the shooting, the editing. The whole package. The Newark Star Ledger is recreating itself as a digital content provider. It’s...
Read moreDorothy Rodham and Me
My newest friend…. Yesterday, I got an email from Dorothy Rodham, Hillary Clinton’s mother. I don’t know Dorothy. Never met her. But the Internet creates all kinds of instant intimacies. You meet people you never thought you would meet....
Read moreNews from Newark
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noytnvRxcTg&hl=en&fs=1[/youtube] A shy New Jersey chiaropractor suffers a stroke on a golf course, and his life is suddenly transformed. He can’t stop making art. We were out in Newark this week at a mass meeting to talk about new...
Read moreIf You Bild It….. will they come?
Email this morning from Pat Younge, President of the Travel Channel.* He sends me a link from The Guardian, that BILD, the German newspaper has partnered with a German supermarket to sell small cameras and field an army of citizen...
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