Fresh Blood
Ready to make content…. This afternoon we will graduate another 40 Travel Channel Journalists and send them out to start creating content for The Travel Channel. We run 24 of these Travel Channel Academies each year. There are now...
Read moreRoll Over Beethoven
How long has this been going on? Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony runs 74 minutes. That is a long time. But if y0u were a music fan in 1815 and wanted to catch a little of the Ninth, you couldn’t just...
Read moreDoes Twitter Lead to a Monoculture?
Under the skin, all exactly the same… Yet another new piece of software for Twitter, this one called Twittertrends, now allows everyone to see what top ten topics everyone else is twittering about at any given moment. As Techcrunch...
Read moreAll In The Family
President Obama is a what???? Passover in Miami with my family and my nephew Adam, a freshman at Washington University in St. Louis, is working on a paper for his “Media and Culture” class. The topic is the impact...
Read moreHere’s The Pitch….
OK. Well how about this one….. Pitching a show to a network is a pain… You get the meeting, and when you walk into the room, the VP for Programming sits behind his or her desk, hands clasped behind...
Read moreThe "Other" Long Tail
A room full of ideas for The Travel Channel – what’s it worth? There has been a lot of talk about ‘the long tail’ and the Internet. Chris Anderson’s book has proven something of a talisman to those of...
Read moreFrozen Assets
once this was a solid investment…. There is an old expression that says ‘necessity is the mother of invention’. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Read moreThe Coming Disaster
…where to now?… On May 31, 1911, the Titanic left the Belfast shipyards with state- of -the-art technology.
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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