I’ve mentioned a few times that I don’t really get GoldieBlox CEO Debbie Sterling’s motivation in allowing herself and her brand to become the face of what may be a years-long copyright battle with the Beastie Boys, but these are strange and volatile times. Still, the controversial story has brought the subject of women in engineering and technology design into ...
Yes, I have a hangover, but not from drink, just from imbibing all that was the year 2013. It was a rough one on a lot of levels both for me and for many of my friends. I don’t know why the year seemed to bring so much bad news, but I did see a lot of folks comment on ...
It took public outrage to get Facebook to back off its decision to allow video of a beheading to appear on its pages; and users still fight to get images of animal torture and pages promoting similar depravities off the site. But according to this article from Queerty.com, over 100 users were barred from access for posting a photo of ...
Okay this is pretty cool, and a really interesting example of what can happen when old media meets new media to produce something extraordinary. Filmmaker Casey Neistat was offered $25,000 by 20th Century Fox to make a video to promote the release of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. In considering the themes the studio proposed for the project, Neistat responded ...
I remember very clearly a day in April 1992 when I was walking in my adoptive city of New York and thinking about my native city of Los Angeles, which was at that moment roiling with the violence known as the Rodney King Riots. I couldn’t help but wonder whether or not copycat or sympathetic riots might flare up in ...
