The Information "Explosion"
This just in…… Several years ago I was invited to take over a course at New York University. The man teaching it, Ed Diamond, had died just a few days before school was to start.
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“…. can anyone help me?” New technologies often precipitate a completely new way of looking at the world. It is not only jobs or industries that are overturned, but often what were once assumed to be basic rules of...
Read moreWhat is News? What Could It Be?
all the news that fits we print…. What is news? The first newspaper was printed in Germany in 1608, some 150 years after the invention of the printing press. Its format, for the most part, has not changed since....
Read moreI Have an Idea…..
Palo Alto – Ken sits by the pool and runs the numbers…. My business partner, Ken Krushel and I have been out in Palo Alto trying to raise money for an idea- Citizenews We started talking about this more...
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There’s a pile of money buried in here… somewhere… Ken Krushel and I are out here in Palo Alto this week trying to raise financing for CTZN.TV.
Read moreThe Source
every once in a while something hits you that changes your life…. I was 12 years old when I first read The Source by James Michener.
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In 2005, I was invited to speak at the Eurasian Median Forum in Almaty, Kazakhstan. I only went for two reasons: First, I wanted to see Almaty. Second, I wanted to meet one of the other speakers –Oh Yeon...
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“see what else is on…” For most of our existence, we have lived in a world without images. We are today so inundated by them, from TV to movies to magazines to billboards that we forget that all this...
Read moreFreedom to Fail
success if only for those who are willing to take risks…. Television is expensive to make. Books are cheap.
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…”and when we come back, sports and weather…” In 1979, Iranian militants took the US Embassy hostage. They would hold it for 444 days.
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