COLLABORATIVE CREATIVITY

At the recent MIPTV market in Cannes, I interviewed Philip DeBevoise, the co-founder of the super-hot online video startup Machinima. This Los Angeles-based company has experienced some incredible results in the past year. They reach a global audience of 166 million viewers and they serve more than 1.4 billion video views each month. That’s way [...]

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I get a great deal of satisfaction from helping my portfolio of startup ventures make progress.    During the past six months, I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with longtime friend Brian Bowman, who just launched social dating site TheComplete.me with a big round of funding from Intel Capital, PlentyofFish and the CrunchFund as well [...]

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Here’s the video of my recent speech at TEDxMarin.  The theme of the event was “Communication Revolution”.  The organizers invited me to speak about the future of television, social media and personal storytelling. Robert Tercek at TEDxMarin May 2011: “Reclaiming The Power of Personal Narrative” from Robert Tercek on Vimeo. TED talks are all about [...]

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Yesterday, Jason McCabe Calacanis invited me to respond to his post “Has Google Been Naughty?  Yes.  Should the Government Get Involved?  No”.   You can read responses from Vivek Wadhwa and  Robert Scoble along with mine in a handy digest on the Launch blog.   The following post is the full text of my response [...]

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The advent of table computers and electronic book readers poses a serious challenge to the traditional business of book publishing.  As I’ve written previously, it’s entirely possible that the economics of print publishing will crumble faster than commonly expected. Recently I was invited to appear on “This Week In Books” to discuss the implications of [...]

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This week I was a guest on “This Week In Careers.”   Host Lisa Mandell interviewed me about career opportunities of the future.  I spoke about several industries that will grow this decade and the steps to take now to prepare for the jobs of the future. In a wide-ranging interview, we covered several topics, [...]

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This week I interviewed Pranav Mistry onstage at the Creativity World Forum in Oklahoma City.   Pranav was catapulted to fame last year by virtue of his talk at TED, titled “The Thrilling Potential of SixthSense Technology.” His formal title is “research assistant and PhD candidate” in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT Media Lab.   That title [...]

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During this week’s Creativity World Forum in Oklahoma City, I met Bill Anoatubby, the Governor of the Chikasaw Nation.  The tribe was one of the leading sponsors of the Forum. Governor Anoatubby’s role in making the Forum possible was hailed by several civic leaders in OKC.   So I was keenly interested in learning more about him [...]

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While visiting Israel last week for the Journey Conference, I learned about some inspiring developments in the Middle East.  Israel is rocking! It was an illuminating experience for me.  In the USA, the mainstream media diet includes a steady supply of sensational stories about the Middle East, featuring suicide bombings, terrorism, rocket attacks and reprisals. [...]

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While the US government struggles to control spending on 20th-century obligations like an overseas empire and bloated entitlement programs, it may be instructive to consider where other nations invest their money.   The pragmatic Chinese leadership puts government money to work via investment in 21st-century infrastructure that will accelerate business in the years to come.  Take a look [...]

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