Events
The Filter Bubble: We Spend a Lot of Time Watching Cat Videos
Eli Pariser, author of “The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You” is on a book tour and made a stop at the KUOW 94.1 studios in Seattle on Tuesday. According to the former Moveon.org chief, web services … Continue reading
Behind the Photograph: What is the White House Situation Room?
It was like something out of a Tom Clancy novel. A somber and youthful President addressing the nation in an unprecedented late night broadcast, announcing that an elite team of Navy Seals had quickly and decisively killed the head of a … Continue reading
Seattle Arts & Lectures:’Let’s Do the Numbers’: Metrics and Maturation of Digital Media in Emerging Markets
“Let’s Do the Numbers’: Metrics and Maturation of Digital Media in Emerging Markets. One of the central storylines of Anita Verna Crofts’ culminating Seattle Arts and Lecture talk addresses the “demographic dividend” that many emerging market countries possess: namely, the … Continue reading
Bin Laden’s Nail in the Coffin: Goodbye Paperboy, Hello Apps
Despite my position as the head of a graduate program in digital media, I’ve always held on to a plethora of print (a.k.a. “dead tree”) newspaper and magazine subscriptions. They’re usually much cheaper than their digital counterparts, and I liked … Continue reading
E-Readers and e-Tail in the Middle East
In a previous post, I wrote about some driving trends in the Arabic speaking media world and I wrote about a cloud-based publishing platform. This post moves closer to the end-user by focusing on new e-reader technologies as well as … Continue reading
Greg Mortenson and Leadership Narrative Lies
Allegations that Central Asia Institute guru Greg Mortenson fabricated parts of his bestselling book “Three Cups of Tea,” and may have exploited the charity’s funds for personal use, bring up serious questions about the level of truth we expect from … Continue reading
Arab World Hungry for Native Digital Content
The role played by digital media in the recent political upheavals in Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere in the Arab World dominated conversations at this year’s Abu Dhabi Media Summit, held last month in the United Arab Emirates. However, the entrepreneurs, … Continue reading
Reverse Innovation: A Two-Way Street to Global Tech Solutions
“More than 90 percent of the population lives within reach of a cell phone tower,” Jessica Rothenberg-Aalami pointed out during Thursday’s Four Peak Salon “Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Markets: What’s Good for Them, Is Good for Us.” And it … Continue reading
