Category: Ideas We Like

  • Get on with it: notes from a learning revolution-in-progress at SXSW Edu

    Although we hosted TEDx Seattle in 2010, I don’t regularly seek out TED talks. However, here at SXSW Edu, Sugata Mitra’s Build a School in the Cloud from earlier this month was mentioned as “must-view” on multiple occasions. On top of that, he won the TED prize for his concept of the Self Organizing Learning…

  • New screens for old: is 4K OK for storytelling?

    Media industry folks used to joke that you could choose a winning new video platform if you just followed the porn industry’s lead — from VHS to DVD’s to 1080p. But if you really want to follow the big money, you only need to look to the (somewhat) more respectable professional sports media machine. My…

  • All those rich TV sports deals may finally make cable so expensive that we’ll see more demands for a la carte subscriptions. It’s one reason why I cut the cord years ago. I’m indifferent to sports, and I refuse to subsidize media that holds no value for me. I’ll just watch those Super Bowl ads with…

  • Time shift: why I walk to work, listen to records and carry a camera

    I’ve just pulled out my vinyl copy of Paul Simon’s 1986 album, Graceland — which I purchased in 1986 (“every generation throws a hero up the pop charts”). Over two decades later, I’ve begun spinning it again. It sounds great. I guess the teenage me took pretty good care of this fragile analog media. I…