Some of you know that I've been working on my new book (same title as the headline: "A Literacy of the Imagination") between all the tech development and advisement that I do. I'd like to share with you the backstory, the abridged version, of what compelled me to forge...
“The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.”- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr...
{EAV:EAVB_MVAUCKRWAH} A lot of what we talk about with respect to Internet economics deals with concepts tied to scarcity: The notion that coming off the heels of post-industrialism, demand is still created and/or managed as a result of the inaccessibility - or limited...
Piracy comes in many forms and can take on many faces. Perhaps it isn't quite what we think it is. With the SOPA bill passing through legislation just last month, yet again we are faced with certain government agencies and politicans who have not properly diagnosed the...
The following is the final piece in a three-part series.Takeaways from Part 2: - Funding ideas in their early stages requires a new kind of risk- Elevated risk actually provides greater access to the edges, where innovation happens- We must try to think in terms of...
The following is the second piece in a three-part series. Takeaways from Part 1: - Culture defines business (and the best business opportunities)- Horizontal investments provide the most scale (and upside)- "Co-Opetitive" approaches drive the most value into the market...
The following is the first post of a three-part series.CREATING A BETTER, MORE EFFICIENT SANDBOXLast week, I returned from Israel where I gave a talk on data, storytelling and intelligent media at an event hosted by Cellcom. The trip was cathartic on many levels.While...
For good and for worse, the buzz around transmedia storytelling is reaching new heights. Similar to how the social media boom started, there seems to be lots of confusion and uncertainty around mechanics, uses and respective transmedia practices. Further, term definition...
“The Bank was very unwilling to mix itself up with the affairs of the company; it dreaded being involved in calamities which it could not relieve, and received all overtures with visible reluctance. But the universal voice of the nation called upon it to come to the rescue...
