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  • Bin Laden’s nail in the coffin: goodbye paperboy, hello apps

    Despite my position as the head of a graduate program in digital media, I’ve always held on to a plethora of print (a.k.a. “dead tree) newspaper and magazine subscriptions.  They’re usually much cheaper than their digital counterparts, and I liked the often serendipitous browsing experience — not to mention the disconnected zen of knowledge absorption.…

  • The unfinished conversation now includes book publishing

    Tomorrow, I’m a featured author at the University of Washington Libraries Literary Voices benefit dinner.  I’m still not entirely sure why I was asked to host a roundtable; compared to keynote author Erik Larson, I’m a Literary Whisper in the Wind.  When I protested, the organizers explained that my Independent America film work, as well…

  • Disruption there, disrupts here

    I enjoyed my conversation with Technology at the Margins co-author Jessica Rothenberg-Aalami on innovation in emerging markets — and its impact on business models there, and here. What happens when medical diagnostic imaging technology that costs tens of thousands of dollars  is imported from developing world into the developed one — where devices that perform…

  • Is there such thing as too much technology?

    Here’s the video from the compelling panel that I hosted at the Microsoft Imagine Marketing Leadership Summit.  Panelists included Lili Cheng from Microsoft FUSE Labs, NYU’s Dalton Conley (author of Elsewhere, USA) and cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito.  Of course we agreed that it wasn’t as bad as the somewhat polemic session title indicated, “It’s not…