Do The Right Thing
Don’t point that cell phone at me! The New York Times is carrying a story today that Nokia and filmmaker Spike Lee have signed a deal to create content out of ‘User Generated Content” made on Nokia phones. Nokia...
Read moreHow To Get Ratings
If you don’t get ratings, you don’t survive…. Saturday morning, Silver Spring Maryland and Eliza Booth, Head of Marketing is talking to the Travel Academy Class about how marketing and programming weaves together. There aren’t too many people in...
Read morePutting the U back in UGC
Today we begin open our first New York based Travel Channel Academy bootcamp. We are now running these in NY, DC and LA. (next week, we’ll go back to LA). The appetite for this seems pretty limitless, (and at...
Read moreBreakfast with Richard Bookstaber
This morning we had breakfast with my friend and neighbor Richard Bookstaber on the back deck of his house in the Hamptons. It is on the water and the views were incredible, as was the food.
Read moreNetworked News
“…. 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 moreA Cat Leads a Revolution
still number one…. Like many people, I post my blog on WordPress.com.
Read moreThe Coming Disaster
…where to now?… On May 31, 1911, the Titanic left the Belfast shipyards with state- of -the-art technology.
Read moreCitizeNews
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...
Read moreTJ Academy – 2 July sessions – sign up now!
Travel Channel President & GM Pat Younge meets with Academy participants. If you want to break into the TV business, you can’t beat this kind of access…. We are taking enrollment for the Travel Channel Academy. We are running...
Read moreOur Idiot Culture
Sometimes it isn’t relative. Sometimes it is very specific… In a lovely new book, entitled The Canon, New York Times science writer Natalie Angier warns of the growing gap between knowledge of science and the real world in America.
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