Mar 8, 2016
It was interesting seeing this blog post from this prominent venture capitalist who is a partner at this firm. (Short version: Fred Wilson’s been at it for 30 years, and there are plenty of unicorns in the Union Square Ventures portfolio, so he might have a...
Feb 18, 2016
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...
Feb 10, 2016
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...
Jan 26, 2016
I’d like to tell you a story about the sudden, complete transformation of a radio performer. (And if you think this is only about radio, you’re forgetting that we now live in a media convergence world, where there is no more radio, television, print, or...
Jan 21, 2016
It’s been amusing to see the meltdown over the alleged outing of Netflix’s closely-guarded audience metrics. As someone who programmed radio stations for over 20 years, living and dying with new ratings data every single week, I can tell you that in our...
