Part 1 covered off on a somewhat crude but personalized timeline of events surrounding the evolution of multi-platform storytelling. There are many examples I didn't include, but I wanted to give folks a reference set for understanding the "macro challenges" of what it...
Introduction As a companion piece to a recent post we wrote over on the WWTID blog regarding curation, and as a follow-up to my last piece on proving out models within the creative industry, I wanted to expand on the concept of storytelling in today's highly charged...
The Proving Ground As a follow-up to my recent pieces on the paradigmatic shifts in media & technology, and the dire need for innovation in the creative industry, I wanted to emphasize the notion of "Prove it, or lose it". We are at a very precarious juncture in...
This was a speak I gave last week at the Miami Ad School (or as some call it, the Miami Idea School) to a group of about 130 graduate students on the topic of creativity, specifically through the lens of DIY culture, and the economics associated with it. Many of the students...
This week I visited my friends at K5 Ventures, an accelerator out here in Southern California. I'm a mentor in the program, and have had the pleasure of interacting with some incredible entrepreneurial minds who are building the great companies of tomorrow. Some of...
I'm not one for lists, nor do I pay too much attention to trends (trends are fleeting), but I do see a whole lot of shifts in the work I do. You know, seismic ones. So I thought I'd share a few that I think are critical to business, and those shaping the way we leverage...
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...
