Jan 20, 2015 | Blog, Business, Movies, Print, Radio, Television
Remember when television was about the lowest common denominator? Remember when the radio station that won was “the one station that everybody at work can agree on”? Those days – the days of aiming as broadly as possible – are toast. Let’s focus on...
Jan 13, 2015 | Blog, Movies, Television
The other day, a group of friends and I were discussing whether The Jetsons Future means that the quality of productions must inevitably decline. My position – not the most popular one in the room at first – was an optimistic one. I argued that, while...
Jan 8, 2015 | Blog, Business, Movies, Television
I felt the need to include a mashup word – ginormous – in the headline because there’s already a media convergence theme song for 2015: It’s A Mashup World After All. (Dear Lord – I’ve just planted that song in your head for the...
Nov 6, 2014 | Blog, Internet, Radio, Talent, Television
Because the nice people at YouTube have access to over one billion human beings who consume content – voraciously – on their website, they have access to far more information about how content is being used (and not used) than any other operator on the...
Oct 28, 2014 | Blog, Business, Internet, Legal, Movies, Television
The answer is: acting like an ostrich. And yes, this is my way of reminding you to make the deliberate choice of seeing the future with your eyes wide open rather than sticking your head in the sand and pretending that things will always be as they always have been....
Oct 20, 2014 | Blog, Internet, Print, Talent, Television
You know how you can know a bunch of stuff, but still miss a really obvious thing until, one day – bam! – the epiphany hits you in the face? I just got smacked upside the head by an epiphany that should speak to every content creator that doesn’t fit...
