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Memo To Radio: Your Mortal Enemy Is Now Your BFF

Cliché alert: radio’s been…please, stop me before I use the d-word…disrupted. (And if you think I’m now filled with self-loathing for using the word-that-should-have-jumped-the-shark-five-years-ago, you’re probably right.) That said, I’d like...

Storytelling: Do It Well Or Suffer A Smiting

Storytelling matters everywhere in the media – no matter how “serious” your job is.  That said, we tend to forget that storytelling is a matter of degrees: there’s a difference between simply relaying an already-interesting story and painting a...

Why Advertisers Need To Adapt To The Jetsons Future

The advertising business is finding out what the rest of the media-industrial complex learned long ago: you can’t fight city hall. Or, in Jetsons Future terms, now that content options are somewhere between plentiful and functionally infinite, showbiz is like...

You Don’t Have To Steal This Book

  If you like reading my thoughts on the future of media and entertainment, you’ll also be reasonably fond of the book I’ve written.  Better still, you’ve got a few days to get it for free. Yep, unlike my cousin Abbie Hoffman, who I’m not...

Mad Scientists Make Major Media Magic

Let’s talk about one of my favorite types of people: mad scientists. In an era of massive change in entertainment and media, it is the crazed experimenters who will develop successful products, and you don’t have to be one solitary scientist sitting in...