Where do creative ideas come from? Why are some organizations innovative and others slog through in a muddle? What kind of atmosphere is conducive to creativity and ingenuity? The current issue of The New Yorker is devoted to innovation in all of its...
This all-important campaign seems to be going on forever, with strong partisans on each side making the case for their respective candidates. Consumers are being blizzarded by e-mail and buttonholed by friends to voice their support and cast their vote...
Right now, I'm moving back and forth between television in 1958 and the internet in 2008. That's because I'm in the middle of writing an essay for the 2008 convention issue of the Radio and Television News Directors Association magazine, The...
It was a scant eight months ago that I first heard of TitanTV, met Jack Perry, sat around a bridge table with him here in an empty suite of offices overlooking Times Square, and he regaled me with his plans for creating the first true network of the twenty...
What would happen if you took the irreverent, humorous attitude that pervades a lot of entertainment reporting online and on television, and mashed it up with news that matters--environmental news? What if you packaged it in a way that appealed to a busy...
In the days before microwave ovens and instant-everything, there was a popular commercial for soup. The child would run into the kitchen, where the mother was stirring a pot. “Is it soup yet?” he’d breathlessly ask. “No, not yet,” Mom would lovingly respond...
It’s Fashion Week here at TitanTV World Headquarters in New York. No, I’m not wearing the latest from Ralph Lauren, and Morgan Jones’ shirt tails are still out. I’m talking the semi-annual media hysteria that descends upon Bryant Square, a block away...