Why Current TV Failed… and what they’re not doing about it
Currently in trouble…. OK Before I start, full disclosure. I am a shareholder in Current TV Which makes me hope that new CEO Mark Rosenthal’s strategy for success will work. But I am not so sure. The intitial idea...
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It’s a gusher! On January 10, 1901, the world changed forever. Captain Anthony F. Lucas was trying his luck drilling for oil in east Texas. The landscape was hot and dry, dotted with salt domes, the remnant from some...
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A different kind of melting… A few years ago, I owned a video bar/cafe in the East Village called DV Dojo. Â It was across the street from CBGB and it was like an Internet cafe, except I gave out...
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Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer…. (25) New technologies carry enormous power with them. Those who grasp what the new technologies mean, as opposed to applying them to old ways of working, will own the future. What we are...
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tell me something…. I was on the Curtis Sliwa show on ABC Talkradio last night. The topic was Twitter and Iran. Of course, it’s easy and self-evident to say that web based programs like Twitter are driving part of...
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THE MOST ADDICTIVE DRUG …what’s on Fox? For the past 60 years, we have all been participating in a massive sociological experiment, the results of which are just now becoming clear. Today, the average American watches 4.5 hours of...
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