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Real-time Content: Beware of Breaking News.
There’s always breaking news out there somewhere. But the question has increasingly become, “Is it really important to me?” More often than not, we’re becoming numb to it. One man’s breaking news is...
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Fragmentation and Building a Marketing Machine
This morning, I read a very solid blog post from Charlie O’Donnell about building a marketing machine in a start-up. Charlie is a very well-known name in NYC Tech circles, and although I don’t know...
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Democracy, Bubbles and the Real time Internet
I have a friend in the news business who had the pleasure (is that the right word?) of covering the whole Debt Ceiling Crisis from Washington over the past week. Instead of broadcasting from a studio...
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Startup MarketingSchool (#sumktg)
Tonight, I’m running the second installment of something called Startup Marketing School in NYC. It’s something that was inspired by this blog post from Charlie O’Donnell and the subsequent...
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Inspiration & Adaptation. Adaptive & Adoptive.
Years ago, one of my mentors preached the importance of being adaptive and adoptive. By that he meant (or at least this is my take), a. don’t be so caught up in yourself that your unable to change...
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All The Perspective that’s Fit to Print
So much for unbiased, huh? For several years now, I’ve used the saying, “News is a commodity. Perspective is not.” It has been my way of explaining why most general news outlets have struggling...
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Is All of Your Business None of Your Business?
Bang Bang Bang. The first three things I saw or read this morning were all about privacy and the coming war over information, big data, tracking, and digital life. If you haven’t thought there is a...
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Pushing Boundaries: How the Game Has Changed in Online Content
There’s a whole bunch of reasons why things have changed in the content business, but I think this is the most important right now. This quote is from an article I just read in AdAge about Business...
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Are there gas lines at the South Pole?
I have this anecdote that I’ve told people for the last 2 years or more. It goes something like this: Today, if I have an iPhone or Android, device, it doesn’t really matter where I am, because I have...
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The Home page’s place in online media and journalism
This morning, I commented on the Columbia Journalism Review in response to a post about the home page being dead. The author, Ann Friedman, said, “Yes and no.” Since she covered “yes,” I felt compelled...
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