There are so many stories in circulation this week detailing the sins of the presumptive disruptor of the the hired car industry, that I would feel more than redundant summarizing all of it here. Read this story by founder and Editor-in-Chief of PandoDaily, Sarah Lacy who was singled out as a journalist whom Uber executive Emil Michael stated publicly he would ...
I had to share this article by New York theater critic David Cote because it really is an indictment of digital-age jitteriness screwing up culture and literacy instead of broadening same as was promised. It’s not really surprising that a contemporary theater audience doesn’t know that a play is not typically an interactive experience, and yet it is still a little surprising. Cote’s ...
I spend a lot of time thinking about the future, about the challenges and the opportunities facing the next generation — those millennials about whom everyone has a theory and whose attention everybody wants. They are, after all, the next big generation, equalling the boomers at about eighty million with us Xers weighing in at a paltry fifty million. But ...
Taylor Swift’s new album 1989 is the first and only to go platinum this year. And the year is just about over. At the same time, Swift is making headlines because her label Big Machine (a label she and her family own) has pulled all of her albums from Spotify and other streaming services. As David Lowery’s artists rights blog ...
We know the economics of the Internet are driven by advertising. But for all the transformation promised to advertisers, and all that has taken place, the unavoidable fact remains that brands still need to build and maintain relationships with customers in order to succeed. Given the fragmentary nature of communications in the digital age, I have often wondered what the ...
