• American electric: this bike commuter’s take on two plug-in hybrids and how they changed my driving

    I don’t like to drive in urban areas. I find it tedious, frustrating and stressful. So I generally bike or walk 6-10 miles a day. I also don’t love cars: they’re just necessary tools. Our family’s two vehicles are 11 and 8 years-old respectively. We maintain them regularly, and believe it’s more environmentally-sound to keep…

  • Can this instrument teach, illuminate and inspire? TV is dead, long live content!

    I’m startled to see that UWTV has uploaded our Four Peaks show to YouTube’s EDU channel, listing my interviews with our region’s remarkable movers and shakers (such as National Science Medal recipient Dr. Leroy Hood) as “Lectures in this Course.” As an educator and communicator, this pleases me to no end. Immediately I started to…

  • How saying no, and later yes to Arcade Magazine led me to architecture and Jeff Bezos signing my Kindle

    As the director of a leading edge graduate program in digital media and engagement, as well as a content creator, I do receive a fair amount of invitations to participate, collaborate and give. Over the past few years, I’ve become a lot more parsimonious about accepting them, preferring to devote my limited time to students…

  • YouTube’s Paywall: My take on HuffPostLive

    Well it’s official, YouTube launched a paywall around certain premium content. As I said in my HuffPost Live appearance today, it was inevitable. Once the darling of the User Generated Crowd, YouTube began the shift to professionally-produced content all the way back in 2008 when it realized that advertisers were skittish about supporting potentially pirated videos.…