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  • Storytelling and the New Studio System?

    …there’s another tension, even as all this content is miraculously made freely available online. While the producers struggle to monetize their work, the content providers from the old media world are desperately trying to regain the lustre of the Golden Age of monopoly pricing — when this stuff was actually hard to create. In other…

  • Going on a gadget diet

    I just wrapped up my TV segment on Seattle KING5’s “New Day Northwest” (“Going on a gadget diet“), a couple of days after my first day of rest from digital media. I’m not even sure what to call it.  It’s not even a rest from all digital media: I’ll still carry a basic phone for…

  • Death to distraction

    This morning, our two year-old had a meltdown because I took the iPod Touch out of her hands so that she could focus on eating her eggs and toast. “I want the iPod!  I want the iPod” she said quite forcefully, along with a tear or two. This incident might also bring a tear (of…

  • Detroit vs Seattle: a tale of two cities through data

    Check out this Forbes interactive map Where Americans Are Moving (built with 2008 IRS data). Red indicates outgoing migration, black, incoming migration. Here’s Detroit: Now here’s Seattle: