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Douglas Rushkoff Discusses The Power Of Creating Value

Douglas Rushkoff is a very smart thinker.

His latest book is called, Life Inc. - How The World Became A Corporation And How To Take It Back, and he has ten other best-selling books on new media and pop culture (including: Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism, Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out and Coercion, winner of the Marshall Mcluhan Award for best media book). He does tons of teaching, public speaking, produces and writes...

The Watering Down Of Quality

If everyone can do something (like create an online video), doesn't that mean that the overall quality of video production drops?

In fact, I was asked a similar question recently via email. The actual question was: "With the stellar rise of citizen journalist, do you think that there is a watering down of real quality journalism or can we all live happily together?" In fact, I would argue that the exact opposite is true. If more and more people can do something - like create a video - it...

More Free eBook Holiday Cheer In The Nick Of Time...

Not sure what to get that someone special for the holidays?

Nothing special came to mind after reading, Gift Ideas For The New Media Business Professional?

Thankfully, there are kind people like J.C. Hutchins (best-selling author of 7th Son and Personal Effects - Dark Art) to the rescue. The author asked a whole bunch of best-selling authors, successful entrepreneurs, great storytellers and passionate new media folks (including yours truly) for excerpts of their books, and tied it all...

Gift Ideas For The New Media Business Professional

If you're shopping for someone who loves business, the Internet, new media and more, you know how vexing and difficult the process can be.

For these people, "what do you get for the person who has everything?" morphs into, "what do you get for the person who has everything before anybody even knows it's going to be something?" Those at the bleeding edge are fairly bored with the cutting edge, and while the pat answer of "get them something - anything - with buttons and flashing lights on...

What Matters Now

Some people are creative with music, others with art. Some are wonders with architecture and others can do amazing things through the beauty of dance. Seth Godin is hyper-creative with words (that is his art). Not just any old words, but words about business.

It actually goes well beyond the words that the best-selling business book author writes, and into how we read them. He is generous with him time and generous with his thoughts (just take a read through his Blog: Seth's Blog). Part of h...

Brand New Audio Conversation With Seth Godin Is Now Live

Episode #181 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

If there is one name that comes immediately to mind when people think of "marketing", it is Seth Godin. Beyond being a best-selling business book author (Permission Marketing, Purple Cow, The Dip, Tribes, etc...), one of the top business Bloggers in the world and one of the most in-demand public speakers, Godin is also the owner of one of the Top 100 websites in the world,Squidoo...

Brand New Audio Conversation With Seth Godin Is Now Live

Episode #181 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

If there is one name that comes immediately to mind when people think of "marketing", it is Seth Godin. Beyond being a best-selling business book author (Permission Marketing, Purple Cow, The Dip, Tribes, etc...), one of the top business Bloggers in the world and one of the most in-demand public speakers, Godin is also the owner of one of the Top 100 websites in the world,Squidoo...

Alternative Ways For Businesses To Use Twitter

There are better (and more interesting) ways for companies to use Twitter than simply have a "conversation."

Most people think of Twitter as either a great way to engage in conversations with individuals, or as a great way for a company to blast out little bits of content in 140 characters at a time. There are also plenty of Blogs and Twitter conversations about how companies "should" use Twitter - as if there is some kind of professional code of conduct for businesses on Twitter. Bottom...

The Problem With Free

If you got everything for free, do you think you think you would feel the same way about it as if you had paid for it?

Here's a personal anecdote: for close to 15 years I was a freelance journalist in the music industry. Along with interviewing musicians and attending concerts, my gig also involved reviewing CDs (and for a time, it was mostly vinyl and cassettes). Over the course of that career, I had accumulated close to 20,000 CDs. Almost everything that the major, minor and indie labels r...

Alternative Ways For Businesses To Use Twitter

There are better (and more interesting) ways for companies to use Twitter than simply have a "conversation."

Most people think of Twitter as either a great way to engage in conversations with individuals, or as a great way for a company to blast out little bits of content in 140 characters at a time. There are also plenty of Blogs and Twitter conversations about how companies "should" use Twitter - as if there is some kind of professional code of conduct for businesses on Twitter. Bottom...