Why The Internet Is Different
No sooner does one job get swallowed up by the Internet than another one is fast behind it. Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal announced that is was bookkeepers who were on the digital chopping block. Is no one safe?...
Read moreBen Affleck – When is TMZ TMI?
Fighting for a Presidential fortune… (courtesy, Wikicommons) Actor Ben Affleck, recently the subject of the PBS Series Searching For Your Roots, a direct copy, by the way of the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are, found out that his...
Read moreMy Biggest Mistake Ever
Idiot!!!! In 1992, I had just launched a new business called Video News International. It was the world’s first video journalist network. I had trained and equipped more than 100 VJs around the world, many of them highly...
Read moreMy Biggest Failure
Are you kidding me? Dave Cohn, who runs Spot.us also runs something called The Carnival of Journalism. Every month he invites members to submit blogs on a specific subject. This month’s subject is ‘Something You Have Failed At –...
Read moreWhat Hath God Wrought
It was the Internet of its day…. On May 23, 1843, Samuel FB Morse flashed the message “what hath God wrought” along a wire strung from the US Supreme Court Chambers in Washington DC to the Mount Clare railway...
Read moreSlavery, Rome & The Internet
www.SPQR.gov The rapid expansion of the Roman Republic brought home an unforseen and extremely disruptive dividend: slaves By the time that Caesar crossed the Rubicon and transformed the Republic to an Empire, there were so many slaves pouring into...
Read moreObama 1, Media 0
It worked for him…. Question: What has Barack Obama got that most journalists don’t? Answer: A job. Obama and his team understood how to use the web to build a massive online ‘affinity group’ to both raise money and...
Read moreMedia Ecology
Take what you want….it’s free… There is a certain irony in Thomas Friedman’s New York Times column yesterday. Friedman was writing about Costa Rica’s new Minister for the Environment, who is also responsible for energy, mining and so on....
Read moreOnly Yesterday
In 1981, KRON4 (of all people) ran the story embedded above. It was about a radical new experiment. A newspaper in San Francisco was putting its newspaper online.
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