Twitter Stumbles Into A World That Is “Increasingly Video”
The New York Times this morning (and everyone else) was filled with the news of Twitter CEO and Founder Dick Costolo stepping down. The stock price immediately jumped 7%. Not that any replacement was announced, nor was there...
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Creating yet another room full of Travel Journalists Yesterday, I wrote a blog entitled ‘Today We Are All Journalists”. I also published this in the Huffington Post (which gets a slightly – though only very slightly) greater readership than my...
Read moreIs The Media Universe Headed to A Cold Death?
And that pretty much explains it all… There is a reaons I dropped out of Advanced Physics. Like most people in the media business, anything vaguely mathematical makes MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over). The formual above is The Second...
Read moreThe Miller’s Tale in #140
In September 1463, William of Ilkeston was walking on the road to the yearly fair (or Faire) in Nottingham, England. Trade fairs were a fairly new invention of the Middle Ages (or as it was then called, Modern...
Read moreWith Hillary on Twitter, Can The End Be Far Away?
Maureen Dowd in The New York Times reported today that Hillary Clinton has started tweeting. If anything screams twitter is no longer hip, this is it. Time to move on and search for the ‘next big thing’. In New York,...
Read moreHow Twitter is Wrecking The Elections… and more, probably
In 1985, Neil Postman published what for me would be one of the seminal books I ever read: Amusing Ourselves To Death I sitll think it’s required reading for anyone who wants to understand the media. Postman’s thesis was...
Read moreWhen Twitter Drives The Plot
About a million years ago (in 2004, I think), we started to produce a new show for The Travel Channel. It was based on what was then a very radical idea – very. Using ‘the Internet’, we would allow...
Read moreLet’s Talk About What We’re Already Talking About….
[youtube]http://youtu.be/GSunqVN84vQ[/youtube] And now.. even more of the same…. The web is the place where you never have to meet an opinion you don’t agree with…. One of the great things about a book or a newspaper is that you...
Read moreWe Are Getting Dumber and Dumber (are you still with me?)
still famous… In the future, Andy Warhol said in the 60s, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Truer words were never spoken. But now, 15 minutes of fame is a lifetime. It’s more like 15 seconds. Are you...
Read moreWhy TV Is Dead – But Doesn’t Know It Yet
Hello? Anyone home? Craig Engler, and executive at SyFy network has published a list of 10 Reasons Why Every TV Exec Has To Start Tweeting. This insightful piece comes, ironically, a day after The New York Times revealed that...
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