Tweet This summer I have had the pleasure of working with my friends Dan, Amy and Kristin in organizing our 20th high school reunion. For anyone that says organizing high school reunions is easy, don’t listen to them! You can check out these “to-do” lists for organizing a reunion on eHow and WikiHow but these miss the mark in describing which activity takes the most time: tracking down our fellow classmates. We had about 340 graduates in our class and today, two months before our

Tweet Interesting article in Walt Mossberg’s column the other day about SnagFilms. Following is an 82-minute documentary called Paper Clips featured on SnagFilms about a middle school in Tennessee educating its students about the Holocaust.

Tweet A couple of weeks back at the IAB Mexico annual conference, I had the chance to hear Peter Horan, CEO of Goodmail Systems, speak about new business models in our era of “me media” as opposed to mass media. Today, consumers are their own editors and don’t place the big media brands on pedestals the way they used to. The new business models had no equivalent in the analog era, which include: 1. Shopping + Community + Advertising 2. News + Maps + User

Tweet My friend John Rozzo, an online community and blogging consultant who helps me with the technology stuff on my blog here, introduced me to a new site called Vator.tv. If I were at a cable company, I would be concerned about sites like this one that offer niche video content that could eat away at larger, mass media cable channels. As described on their web site, “Vator.tv is a social network for technology startup companies which gives entrepreneurs a platform to connect with investors,

Tweet There is an interesting article in the WSJ – Photojournalism for the Web Generation – that chronicles the work of MediaStorm, a new made-for-the-web content organization. MediaStorm’s site features an incredibly powerful video/photo portrait of a soldier in Iraq called The Marlboro Marine. Check it out. Here is another video/photo essay that MediaStorm did about the work of Reuters’ reporters in Iraq called Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War. The WSJ article makes a good analogy saying that MediaStorm aims to increase

Tweet Is this video for real? Who was Steve’s “Miami Vice” fashion consultant with that sports coat?

Tweet Interesting article in the WSJ this morning arguing that Chris Anderson’s “Long Tail” theory was incorrect. Instead, Lee Gomes highlights Harvard Professor Anita Elberse’s article in the Harvard Business Review called – Should You Invest in the Long Tail? This quote really caught my attention from the WSJ article… Bloggers had a special role in taking up the [Long Tail] theory, which is no wonder considering how it held out the promise that even the most obscure among them could win a robust audience.

Tweet My good friend Simon Burgess forwarded along this link to me of Yahoo!’s presentation to the SEC explaining why they turned down Microsoft’s offer, how the Google deal will work and why Carl Icahn’s recommendations don’t make sense for Yahoo! shareholders. Interesting.

Tweet Recently, I finished reading Lawrence Lessig’s book Free Culture and recommend it for anyone interested in preserving America’s spirit of innovation and creativity. Mr. Lessig is was a Law professor at Stanford University and CEO of Creative Commons, a project that he founded to provide an alternative to the current copyright term system. In a nutshell, Mr. Lessig shows how Walt Disney Company, in its heyday, reinvented stories from other writers and legend but that today such “copying” and recreating of classics like Cinderella, Fantasia,

Tweet This 10-minute clip about a Bill Gates documentary on the BBC is a good example of how broadcast companies can promote their shows online, specifically on YouTube. And hey…you can learn how Bill Gates is going to spend $24.5 billion dollars in 2008 as part of his foundation.