Category: Stories Worth Watching

  • Higher Ed on the precipice: hacking a solution in April

    I direct a highly-respected graduate program for professionals looking to engage and persuade through digital platforms.  Over the last decade, that technology has severely disrupted business models that were once held sacrosanct in the industrial age: journalism, music, politics, mass communications.  We no longer need institutional permission to create media and connect to strangers who actually want…

  • How content inspires participation: Four Peaks TV episode

    A new episode of Four Peaks, and particularly specific to the premise of Storyteller Uprising (as I conclude in my commentary). Gaming. Music. Movies. The Pacific Northwest has become a hotbed for compelling entertainment. But this content is so much more than just play: some of our region’s creative leaders have identified its ability to…

  • “Video games will be the fastest-growing and most exciting form of mass media over the coming decade” declares the headline to The Economist’s recent video games special report “All the world’s a game.” According to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a consulting firm, the global video-game market was worth around $56 billion last year. That is more than…

  • We’ve been fans of live webcast platform Livestream since we used their professional service for our TEDx Seattle event a year and a half ago.  Right now, I’m watching the OccupyNYC stream in amazement as the police raid Liberty Park.  It looks like a real newscast, complete with news ticker at the bottom of the…