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Podcasts For Curious Minds
Rapid change comes with many questions, and rarely has the need for information – reliable information – been greater. Here’s a list of my favorite podcasts: all…Moving On
When I arrived in San Francisco in the summer of 1998 as an Arthur F. Burns Fellow, most people dialed up to the Internet by way of…Innovation: Made in U.S.A.
Why is it that groundbreaking, world-changing products so often originate in the United States? I’d argue the case of Aereo vs. Old-School Television provides a good clue.…Winning the Paywall Fight
A controversy has broken out between two media powerhouses in Germany: BILD – the largest daily – accuses rival Focus of stealing. It’s all about digital content…Sony RX10 Quick Look
You won’t find many cameras boasting a 24-200 mm superzoom lens with a maximum aperture of f2.8, made by a renowned optics specialist like Zeiss. Combine that…Google Translate Gets Augmented
Word Lens developers John DeWeese and Otavio Good showing their augmented reality app With Google Translate handling more than a billion requests per day, more and more…The Paywall Fallacy
Media managers in Germany draw hope from a new survey by Bitkom, an IT industry association, which says that a quarter of Germans are now paying for…Fleet Week: Blue Without Angels
Typically, San Francisco’s first weekend in October belongs to Fleet Week and the Blue Angels. The air show is a feast for the eyes, nerve-wracking at times,…