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Category: Personal

  • Is that a phone or are you just happy to see me?

    Check out my conversation with Margaret Larson about the latest and greatest apps (Alaska Airlines, GoGoKiddo, Google Currents) as well as some words of “wisdom” about the Kindle Fire and the new 5.3″ Samsung Galaxy Note (the one device to rule them all?).  We’ll be doing this on a monthly basis, so I look forward…

  • The digital and the forbidden: my trip to Beijing

    Thousands of people flooded around me.  I stared in exasperation at the sign.  Yet, I knew that it had to be emblematic of something about my week-long trip to Beijing — my first to China.  True to my personality, I had tried to go against the tide by trying to enter the Forbidden City from…

  • Beginning, middle and so far no end!

    As I conclude this week, I have given three Storyteller Uprising talks (for Lowe + Partners in NYC, Adobe and OCLC in Seattle) and signed a number of books (the analog edition). I participated in the graduation of 55 of our students (our largest cohort ever).  We hosted a successful Screen Summit last night, handing…

  • Ready, set, go.

    Every three years or so, I take an abrupt left turn along the meandering donkey trail that is my superhighway to professional success.  From business to law student, to network news producer, to backpack TV journalist, to independent filmmaker to digital media strategist to academic.  A dean at Northwestern University once wondered aloud as to…