It’s amazing how upset people can get from a letter On Friday night I appeared on KQED’s “This Week in Northern California” discussing the open letter Google and Verizon cowrote to the FCC proposing new broadband requirements for mobile and some type of second Internet. The letter bent everyone out of shape and caused a […]
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Why do people still download & install applications?
Socialmedia.biz’s David Spark talks about why people still download and install applications, plus what makes applications successful.
OpenCalais: Serving up context on the fly
Why sharing your content is a smart business move You may have heard about the threat by online publishers to cordon off their sites’ content and put a No Trespassing sign on their lawns to ward off crawls and indexing by the search engine. That chest-thumping strategy is a dead end.* Consider the exact opposite […]
Paths to the new journalism
Paths to the new journalism View more presentations from JD Lasica. The future of journalism will be more social & entrepreneurial With the business models of traditional news media in free fall, it’s a precarious time for journalism. Earlier this month I did an hourlong video chat with a class of journalism students at the […]
Is it still pompous to announce, ‘I don’t have a TV’?
We’ve all had this moment. You want to talk to a friend about some great TV program you just saw. Instead of engaging or heeding your recommendation they simply announce, “I don’t have a TV.” We all know where that conversation leads. Either they’re considerate and just let it go. But more often they tell […]