I woke up this morning and read this post by Robert Kuttner in Huffington Post. I think his opening points are spot on. He tells us that Wall Street and BP demonstrate the same problem.
In both cases, a powerful, politically protected industry invented something that could not easily be repaired when it broke. We [...]
It looks like Mark Zuckerberg will continue to be everyone’s favorite punching bag this week. I’ve written earlier as to why I believe the issue is much larger than Zuckerberg or Facebook, and Robert Scoble did a great piece yesterday reminding us exactly what Mark has already achieved – to his benefit and ours – [...]
I’m really excited to be speaking at the Cannes International Advertising Festival this year and wanted to share some of the seminars that I’m looking forward to.
I’ll give a snapshot of what each is about so that you get a sense of what issues the industry is addressing. Plus, if you’re going, this should be a [...]
Thanks to the Brookings Institute I recently had to privilege of attending the U.S./ Islamic World Forum in Qatar participating in the working group, ‘New Media in the Era of Globalization’. One of the other members of my group was Riyaad Minty, who as Head of Social Media for Al Jazeera, has been at the [...]
Here Ted Sarandos, who’s already at the center of the firestorm between studios, cable companies and video stores, takes questions from the floor about the DVD business, Red Box, VOD, streaming video, the Comcast threat, piracy, cable companies and the future of Netflix.
If you interested in how, why and what people will be watching, Ted [...]