Category: Ideas We Like

  • My TEDx Seattle introduction, as I lay the framework for “Convening Community Through Social Technologies: From Puget Sound to Cape Town.”

  • Every time that I step into a newsroom, I remember what it was like to live off of the electricity in the air.  It was the human buzz of stressful inquiry as events incessantly unfolded before our journalistic eyes. We’ve come to believe that this buzz is much diminished in the waning days of traditional…

  • An interesting New York Times analysis on how Obama is losing his way (and the faith of Americans) because of his muddled narrative.  Maybe he needs that one logline that’ll simplify everything for us?  (I think “Yes We Can” has been crossed off the list). “You’ve got to have a clear, easy to understand story,”…

  • Boring, formulaic, and poor story structure.