by David | Sep 22, 2018 | Digital Migration
Facebook and Twitter are now fueling hatred, conflict, repression, and in some cases – genocide. Where do we go from here? “Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true/Or is it something worse?” Bruce Springsteen, “The River” Back in...
by David | Oct 10, 2015 | Politics & New Media, television
So this happened: I got asked to help train a team of 25 bright, ambitious, clever & talented people from Jiangsu Broadcasting. I believe they are headquartered in Nanjing, and they were set loose in Los Angeles for 20 days (missing out on some big & important...
by David | Feb 24, 2014 | journalism
Thought-provoking take in a Playboy interview of Gawker Media’s Nick Denton, one of the most-hated men on the internet. Also, one of the most successful. His premise may be a little self-serving, in light of his whole net worth being based on prying into...
by David | May 8, 2013 | advertising
One in an occasional, erratic and occasionally erratic series Time is money. Image is everything. Manners maketh man. Your reputation precedes you. And now, having a high (enough) Klout score wins you entry into the American Airlines first-class lounge, where you can...
by David | Oct 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
Major news outlets use Storify to aggregate & make sense of social media flow about Hurricane Sandy In the last two days, as we’ve all been inundated (pardon the lame water-related pun) with near-constant TV, radio, web & social media updates on the...