Recent Articles
August 06, 2007
In this media-saturated age, it's becoming more apparent that we need to update media literacy. When people create media, not just consume it, the task is more complex - and more vital than ever.
July 23, 2007
The iPhone hype, one of the wonders of recent marketing and PR, is subsiding a bit. It will subside more, soon enough, as reality intrudes on the dreams.
June 25, 2007
The plutocrats aren't on the run yet, but they're starting to feel some serious heat. A reckoning, of sorts, may be under way on the uneven playing field known as Western capitalism.
June 11, 2007
Every politician today surely fears having his or her own Macaca Moment: saying something stupid (or worse) in public and having it posted on YouTube or other video-sharing sites.
May 28, 2007
The forces of reaction are mounting their fiercest pushback yet against citizen media.
May 14, 2007
In the question-and-answer portion of a talk I gave a week ago, a member of the audience asked me what I'd do if I were given Karen Hughes' job at the US State Department.
April 30, 2007
Sometimes a corporate brand needs to retreat in order to preserve its integrity. A major TV network may be learning this the hard way.
April 16, 2007
A big issue in the blogosphere lately, or at least big-media coverage of it, has been behavior. What's appropriate in online discourse? Who decides? Who enforces?
April 02, 2007
It's looking more and more likely that we've been in a real-estate bubble - and that things are going to get mighty ugly as it deflates.
March 19, 2007
As a frequent traveler, I've come to appreciate something that United Airlines, alone in the airline industry, offers its passengers. It is a small, but valuable bit of transparency.