Category Archives: Prognostication

Seth Godin Says Jay Moonah will be Paying Me a Year Early

Posted on April 21, 2009 by john

Seth’s blog predicts there will be no significant newspapers printed on newsprint in the US by 2012. I was really excited to see that because it’s so close to the bet that I placed back in December calling out 2/26/13 … Continue reading →

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Social Media Lies – Like Trackbacks are Good

Posted on March 15, 2009 by john

Clay Shirky has written a great post about newspapers and the future of journalism. The other thing that struck me about this post was the number of worthless trackbacks. I’ve started to look at blogs along a spectrum where the … Continue reading →

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TiVo using Bonjour

Posted on March 13, 2009 by john

This will only be of interest to the most hardcore video geeks (perhaps only half of the readers here). I just upgraded to the latest version of TivoToGo – the program that gets TV shows off my TiVo and on … Continue reading →

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Running with the Tribes

Posted on October 22, 2008 by john

This morning I attended a Seth Godin event, a presentation on his new book Tribes (please click to offset my massive new media experiment debt). I took the Acela down from Boston the night before and had a chance to … Continue reading →

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Things People Need You to Believe

Posted on September 30, 2008 by john

So I finally wrapped up the wedding tour (link to absurd dancing photos), and came down with the flu this weekend. After sleeping most of the day Sunday I was back in the game for The Beancast and back to … Continue reading →

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Why You Should Give Content Away For Free

Posted on August 20, 2008 by john

I keep an eye on what Justin is working on. He’s not just talking about how media is changing, he is getting his hands dirty, watching it change around him. The beauty of this is that he may see some … Continue reading →

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Marketing Update

Posted on June 11, 2008 by john

This week I was fortunate enough to be able to go to both the PRSA’s conference this week in New York City and MarketingProf’s event in Boston. Aside from the obvious benefit of being able to get cheese popcorn from … Continue reading →

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Fake Steve Jobs – Old Media Fear Naught

Posted on January 26, 2008 by john

Last week I attended a signing by Fake Steve Jobs, for his book Option$. Atlas Ventures opened up the bar and invited a large crew to Rocca, a very cool location in the South End of Boston. For those not … Continue reading →

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