Why Elon Musk Is Like Thomas Edison (when it comes to Twitter)
So, billionaire industrial genius Elon Musk buys Twitter and immediately, 75% of the staff resign. What happened? Musk was brilliant at building real stuff – SpaceX – space ships that worked – watching the boosters land on their own...
Read moreIt’s The Mediaverse, not the Metaverse
There is an old expression that says, ‘it is easier to invent the future than to predict it’. Mark Zuckerberg appears about to prove this aphorism false. After pouring tens of billions into the Metaverse and pivoting the once...
Read moreHow To Make Millions With A 99% Failure Rate
Many years ago, when I was just getting started, I landed The Voice of America as a client. The VOA was then a US Government owned short wave radio network. The State Department wanted to turn it into...
Read moreYesterday’s Cutting Edge Is Today’s Junk
Yesterday, Lisa sent me two old photos that she had found. In the olden days, you would find these in a box in the attic. As we have no attic, and no box of old photos, she found...
Read more5 Reasons To Shoot Video On A Phone
We have been walking the streets of New York, taking photos of people shooting video. As this is Christmas time in New York there are lots of tourists out and about, from Rockefeller Center to Times Square, all shooting...
Read moreFirst They Came For The Newspapers
Between 1995 and 2015, Alan Rusbrider was the Editor in Chief of The Guardian. He was, by many accounts, the best editor that the paper had ever had. Bold, fearless, a journalists’ journalist. He also oversaw the paper at...
Read moreiPhone Video Wins Turner Prize in Art
On January 24th, 1955, The Musuem of Modern Art in New York opened a new exhibition entitled The Family of Man. The show as curated by famed photographer Edward Steichen and featured the work of some of the world’s...
Read moreFacebook Gets Into The Local News Space
Megagiant Facebook (admittedly a mega giant under pressure from all sides) announced yesterday that is it moving into the local news space. This is an area that has been either dead or a vacuum for some time. Local newspapers...
Read more5 Great Ways To Use Video To Grow Your Business
I have a special gift for you today Americans spend about 11 hours a day, every day, staring at screens. We spend more time staring at screens than we do working, eating, reading, playing sports, working out and...
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