Facebook + Content = Newspaper?
170 million users can’t be wrong… The New York Times has about 1 million readers every day. Facebook has 170 million users. This tells you something. The NY Times, (and NBC and The SF Chronicle) were all created in...
Read moreA Visit to The Facebook Building
Over there… on the left… Two years ago, we began a very interesting experiment with a major cable provider. We built and ran (and continue to run) a hyper-local TV station which is probably the most cost-effective in the...
Read moreRethinking News
Listen to the technology…. New technologies require new ways of thinking. This is often the hardest thing for us to do. Too often we simply take old ways of working and plug in new technologies. Andy Grove (above), longtime...
Read moreLeaving Your Mark
 Like all tourists since Genghis Khan, we also made the trip to the Great Wall of China. First, despite its being one of the all-time greatest ‘tourist attractions’ in the world, it is without a doubt worth the...
Read moreIt’s The Community, Stupid!
 The old broadcasting model does not really cut it anymore In two weeks we’re starting our 2008 round of Travel Channel Academy sessions. We’re going to train and empower more than 1,ooo people with cameras and laptops and...
Read moreFacebook and the Face of Islam
You can be my ‘friend’ 14 years ago, I contracted with the Eritrean Liberation Army to help build their TV station, ERITV in Asmara, the capital of the newly independent nation of Eritrea. Eritrea had fought a 30 years...
Read more"Do You Ever Read The Books You Burn"?
Some years ago, on the heels of the success of Trauma, Life in the ER, we began shooting other ‘reality’ shows – Paramedics, Police Force, Breaking News and so on. One we tried, without success, was Fire Fighters. We...
Read moreAre We Missing the Point?
When new technologies come along, existing businesses as a rule, tend to adapt those new technologies to their existing way of working.
Read moreA Blast from the Past
PS 5 School – class of 1966 A few months ago, Jeff Jarvis told me I had to get on Facebook.
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