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Dave Pell On Breaking News And Being The Internet’s Managing Editor – This Week’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast

Episode #801 of Six Pixels of Separation is now live and ready for you to listen to.

One of the best newsletters online is NextDraft. It is a a quick and entertaining look at the day’s most fascinating news curated and with commentary by Dave Pell (who has self-appointed himself as Managing Editor of the Internet). Dave has been writing about news, technology, and media since 1999. He’s been news obsessed since he was child. He has also been investing in and advising startups since the earliest days of the internet, and has written extensively on the role of technology in our lives. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He sits on the board of 826 Valencia and is a longtime advisor to the Center for Investigative Reporting. This is his first book: Please Scream Inside Your Heart – Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year that Wouldn’t End, and it’s a cathartic and humorous ride through the unnerving, maddening hellscape of the 2020 press cycle, reestablishing the line between “real” news and real life. “Fueled by the wisdom and advice of his two Holocaust-surviving parents, for whom parts of this story were all too familiar, Pell puts the key stories of 2020 into context with pith and punch – highlighting turning points that widened America’s divisions, deepened our obsession with a media-driven civil war, and nearly knocked the country off its tracks. Pell also examines the role of technology in society—and how we somehow built the exact opposite of what we thought we were building. Why did the lies spread faster than the truth? How did our tech addiction contribute to the nightmare? Why do you feel a vibration in your pocket right now?” Enjoy the conversation…

You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via Apple Podcast or whatever platform you may choose): Six Pixels of Separation #801.

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SPOS #801 – Dave Pell On Breaking News And Being The Internet’s Managing Editor

Welcome to episode #801 of Six Pixels of Separation.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #801 – Host: Mitch Joel. One of the best newsletters online is NextDraft. It is a a quick and entertaining look at the day’s most fascinating news curated and with commentary by Dave Pell (who has self-appointed himself as Managing Editor of the Internet). Dave has been writing about news, technology, and media since 1999. He’s been news obsessed since he was child. He has also been investing in and advising startups since the earliest days of the internet, and has written extensively on the role of technology in our lives. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He sits on the board of 826 Valencia and is a longtime advisor to the Center for Investigative Reporting. This is his first book: Please Scream Inside Your Heart – Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year that Wouldn’t End, and it’s a cathartic and humorous ride through the unnerving, maddening hellscape of the 2020 press cycle, reestablishing the line between “real” news and real life. “Fueled by the wisdom and advice of his two Holocaust-surviving parents, for whom parts of this story were all too familiar, Pell puts the key stories of 2020 into context with pith and punch – highlighting turning points that widened America’s divisions, deepened our obsession with a media-driven civil war, and nearly knocked the country off its tracks. Pell also examines the role of technology in society—and how we somehow built the exact opposite of what we thought we were building. Why did the lies spread faster than the truth? How did our tech addiction contribute to the nightmare? Why do you feel a vibration in your pocket right now?” Enjoy the conversation…

Running time: 1:07:54.Hello from beautiful Montreal.Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts.Please visit and leave comments on the blog – Six Pixels of Separation.Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.or you can connect on LinkedIn.…or on Twitter.Here is my conversation with Dave Pell.NextDraft.Please Scream Inside Your Heart – Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year that Wouldn’t End.Follow Dave on Twitter.This week’s music: David Usher ‘St. Lawrence River’.

Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #801 – Host: Mitch Joel.

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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #594

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

My friends: Alistair Croll (Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, Interesting Bits, HBS, chair of Strata, Startupfest, FWD50, and Scaletechconf; author of Lean Analytics and some other books), Hugh McGuire (Rebus Foundation, PressBooks, LibriVox) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person “must see.”

Check out these six links that we’re recommending to one another: 

These Were Our Years – Sara Benincasa – Medium. “I’ve become something of a Sara Benincasa fanboy lately. She has a knack for capturing our times with sideways glances and oblique references that make a whole image form just outside your periphery, and this dispatch from mid-2021 is no exception. With the world dithering on real progress—across economics, climate change, peace, racism, and so much more—it’s useful to think how our offspring will think about us.” (Alistair for Hugh). Eye-Scanning Silver Orb Cryptocurrency Launches With $1 Billion Valuation – Motherboard – Vice . “Every part of this reads like Black Mirror. And yet biometric security is a great equalizer in many ways, removing the barriers to crypto, but also paving the way to break from national groups and declare yourself a sovereign individual in some weird libertarian dystopia.” (Alistair for Mitch). Why all the change in China matters to us – Yahoo! Finance . “We’re not quite in a cold (or hot) war yet, but it does seem like China and the US are moving in that direction. Even if they aren’t, China sure is changing, and one way or another that’ll have an impact on the world.” (Hugh for Alistair). One of the World’s Poorest Countries Found a Better Way to Do Stimulus – Bloomberg BusinessWeek . “How Togo did financial stimulus right (and the US didn’t). (Honorable mention: Canada was pretty good on this count).” (Hugh for Mitch). The Monocle Minute and Weekend Editions Newsletter . “I’m going share something a little bit different this week: Newsletters. I’m (fairly) addicted to email newsletters. I have been for decades. Many of them have fallen off of my radar, but many have improved and have become something that I look forward to. The Monocle Minute and Weekend Editions is one of the best that there is. I’m particularly fascinated by the Monocle Minute on Design (on Wednesdays) and the Monocle Weekend Editions feature on Sunday called, Sunday Roast (which is a light and quick Q&A with someone in the media community about their weekend habits). If you don’t subscribe, you really should. Great insights, fresh thinking and it’s all free.” (Mitch for Alistair). Total Annarchy Newsletter – Ann Handley . “Ann Handley‘s free newsletter can, simplistically, be called ‘about writing,’ but that is really cheapening what’s going on here. Ann is a famed author and marketing professional, so her writing can be about ‘better content marketing,’ but there’s just gem after gem of inspiration, links, critical thinking, and learning from one of my dear old friends. Again, if you don’t subscribe to Ann, you really don’t know what you’re missing. Do it up!” (Mitch for Hugh).

Feel free to share these links and add your picks on Twitter, Facebook, in the comments below or wherever you play.

Are you interested in what’s next? How to decode the future? I publish between 2-3 times per week and then the Six Pixels of Separation Podcast comes out every Sunday. Feel free to subscribe (and tell your friends): 

The Future of Podcasting And Hosting Over 800 Episodes

Your digital media catch-up is right here.

Every Tuesday – for just a few minutes – I join Heather Backman (my old buddy from her days on CHOM FM) on the air at Jack 103 (Rogers Sports & Media) to give a quick blast about the current state of technology, media and Internet culture. We’re calling the segment Tech Tuesday (and we do it in just a few minutes).

What is Tech Tuesday?

If you ever find yourself wondering… What, exactly, is the point of TikTok? How can I make myself look better on a Zoom? Reddit? What’s that about? How do I help my kids be safer online? Who’s the latest creator and streamer that I should be checking out?

You are not alone.

This is what Heather Backman and I discussed this morning over on Jack 103 FM for a couple of minutes:

Debbie Millman On Why Design (And Podcasting) Matters – This Week’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast – Episode #800.

I just published my 800th episode on Sunday of my podcast, Six Pixels of Separation (a pretty serious milestone). My guest was Debbie Millman who hosts the Design Matters podcast (which has actually been going on longer than my show!). Still, Six Pixels of Separation is the longest running business podcast in the world (I believe?). I started in May of 2006. So.. over 15 years… every Sunday without fail. How is podcasting different from radio? How has podcasting evolved? How much bigger can it get? Also, my other podcast, Groove – The No Treble Podcast, also came out this week. Episode #83 (it’s a monthly show – so  close to seven years on that one) and this month I hosted Anthrax bassist, Frank Bello. With Groove, I am trying to build the largest oral history of bass players. I’m a big fan of the podcast movement. 

What do you think about podcasting?

App of the Week: Castbox – my preferred way of listening to podcasts and other digital audio formats.

Once the segment goes live on Jack 103, I will post it here for you to listen in, learn, share and engage….

Mitch Joel · The Future of Podcasting And Hosting Over 800 Episodes – Jack 103 FM – November 9th 2021

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Debbie Millman On Why Design (And Podcasting) Matters – This Week’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast

Episode #800 of Six Pixels of Separation is now live and ready for you to listen to.

I’m not one to celebrate milestones. Still, I found myself wondering who might make for a fascinating conversation if episode number 800 ever happened. I wanted it to be someone that I know, love and respect. At the same time, I wanted it be someone that has yet to be a guest on the show. Someone who knows what it’s like to toil in the long conversations over the years. There was only one choice: Debbie Millman. Debbie has been creating her own podcast since 2005. It is the first and longest running podcast about design. I do believe that Six Pixels of Separation is the longest consistently running business podcast, but I could be wrong. Debbie is a national treasure, and if you’re not listening to her show, Design Matters, you really should. Named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company, and “one of the most influential designers working today” by Graphic Design USA, Debbie is also an author, educator, and curator, along with being a famed podcast host. Debbie is the author of seven books, including two collections of interviews that have extended the ethos and editorial vision of Design Matters to the printed page. Her most recent book, Why Design Matters – Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People, will be published in February 2022. She is also the co-owner and Editorial Director of PrintMag.com. Debbie co-founded the world’s first graduate program in branding at the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2010. For 20 years, Debbie was the President of Sterling Brands, one of the world’s leading branding consultancies. She arrived in 1995 when the company was two years old and had 15 employees in one office. Under her leadership, Sterling grew to 150 employees in five offices and she was instrumental in the firm’s acquisition by Omnicom in 2008. Again, we share a lot of common and parallel career tracks. Let’s celebrate 800 episodes, the power of design, and what it takes to stay the course in the world of podcasting. Enjoy the conversation…

You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via Apple Podcast or whatever platform you may choose): Six Pixels of Separation #800.

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SPOS #800 – Debbie Millman On Why Design (And Podcasting) Matters

Welcome to episode #800 of Six Pixels of Separation.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #800 – Host: Mitch Joel. I’m not one to celebrate milestones. Still, I found myself wondering who might make for a fascinating conversation if episode number 800 ever happened. I wanted it to be someone that I know, love and respect. At the same time, I wanted it be someone that has yet to be a guest on the show. Someone who knows what it’s like to toil in the long conversations over the years. There was only one choice: Debbie Millman. Debbie has been creating her own podcast since 2005. It is the first and longest running podcast about design. I do believe that Six Pixels of Separation is the longest consistently running business podcast, but I could be wrong. Debbie is a national treasure, and if you’re not listening to her show, Design Matters, you really should. Named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company, and “one of the most influential designers working today” by Graphic Design USA, Debbie is also an author, educator, and curator, along with being a famed podcast host. Debbie is the author of seven books, including two collections of interviews that have extended the ethos and editorial vision of Design Matters to the printed page. Her most recent book, Why Design Matters – Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People, will be published in February 2022. She is also the co-owner and Editorial Director of PrintMag.com. Debbie co-founded the world’s first graduate program in branding at the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2010. For 20 years, Debbie was the President of Sterling Brands, one of the world’s leading branding consultancies. She arrived in 1995 when the company was two years old and had 15 employees in one office. Under her leadership, Sterling grew to 150 employees in five offices and she was instrumental in the firm’s acquisition by Omnicom in 2008. Again, we share a lot of common and parallel career tracks. Let’s celebrate 800 episodes, the power of design, and what it takes to stay the course in the world of podcasting. Enjoy the conversation…

Running time: 1:02:22.Hello from beautiful Montreal.Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts.Please visit and leave comments on the blog – Six Pixels of Separation.Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.or you can connect on LinkedIn.…or on Twitter.Here is my conversation with Debbie Millman.Design Matters.Why Design Matters – Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People.Follow Debbie on Instagram.Follow Debbie on LinkedIn.Follow Debbie on Twitter.This week’s music: David Usher ‘St. Lawrence River’.

Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #800 – Host: Mitch Joel.

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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #593

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

My friends: Alistair Croll (Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, Interesting Bits, HBS, chair of Strata, Startupfest, FWD50, and Scaletechconf; author of Lean Analytics and some other books), Hugh McGuire (Rebus Foundation, PressBooks, LibriVox) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person “must see.”

Check out these six links that we’re recommending to one another: 

Generating Fantasy Maps. “My links last week were a bit heavy, so this week I’m going to take on the lighter side of the Internet. First up, something I wish I’d had when I was a kid staying up late making D&D maps. A series of algorithms and procedures, in the web page, allows you to generate random maps with fantasy names, rivers, mountains, shorelines, and more. It’s mesmerising.” (Alistair for Hugh). Night Café . “Ever wanted to collaborate with an AI on art? Sure you have! This site lets you upload a source picture, then type in a description of what you’d like to see. Machine learning algorithms take it from there, hallucinating weird original art inspired by your prompts. The results can be startlingly good, a strange mashup of psychedelia and painterly interpretation. My partner’s addicted to making tiny elf villages at 3 am, it seems. Free to try, but you get credits for more pictures if your work gets community approval.” (Alistair for Mitch). AI Generates Hypotheses Human Scientists Have Not Thought Of – Scientific American . “Using AI as a tool to help us think better about the future, I hope that’s how it all turns out.” (Hugh for Alistair). How to Fix Social Media – The New Atlantis . “Nicholas Carr on privacy, public speech, and how (maybe) to fix social media.” (Hugh for Mitch). Leaving the cult of entrepreneurship: Intrapreneurs are the true drivers of innovation – Big Think . “We give to much credit to the entrepreneurs. That’s not an insult. It’s a desire to create a sense of equilibrium in a world that is heavily weighted to those who take on the full risk. Within organizations – every day… across the globe – are people who are working hard and building a better tomorrow. The only difference is that they are salaried employees (some, probably have additional benefits). The story of intrapreneurs is one that doesn’t get told often enough. It’s also a story that we don’t tend to hold high up on the pedestal of business lore. We probably should. How many great ideas and businesses have been born within an already established organization? It’s time to celebrate this type of work (and worker) with the same kind of headlines and enthusiasm that we give to those who go at it alone.” (Mitch for Alistair). 13 writing tips, from beloved teacher Anne Lamott – TED . “I shared this list in my private Facebook group for business and non-fiction writers earlier this week. The thing is that it has been marbling around in my brain ever since. How often does an article do that to you? Anne Lamott is both a writer’s writer and the author or many books for writers on the craft. If you have yet to read Bird By Bird and you’re a writer (or an aspiring one), I don’t know what to say. Here are some nuggets of pure gold. This is not just for writers. This is also for anybody thinking about how to improve their creative process. So… what are you waiting for? Write!” (Mitch for Hugh).

Feel free to share these links and add your picks on Twitter, Facebook, in the comments below or wherever you play.

Are you interested in what’s next? How to decode the future? I publish between 2-3 times per week and then the Six Pixels of Separation Podcast comes out every Sunday. Feel free to subscribe (and tell your friends): 

Frank Bello From Anthrax On This Month’s Groove – The No Treble Podcast

Frank Bello is this month’s conversation on Groove – The No Treble Podcast.

You can listen the new episode right here: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #83 – Frank Bello.

Who is Frank Bello ?

Some albums just hit you at the exactly right moment in time. One of those albums (for me) was Anthrax‘s 1987 release, Among The Living. While this was their third studio album (and I had heard and enjoyed their previous efforts), this was the one for me. To this day, I can listen to Among The Living, and it feels fresh and vibrant. Frank Bello has been the bassist for this legendary New York thrash metal band since 1984. They have sold over ten million albums, travelled the globe more times than he cares to count, and enthralled audiences from the world’s biggest stages. Know as one of “The Big Four” in metal (along with Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth), Frank’s playing is ferocious, and he truly does love the electric bass. You can also hear him paired with Dave Ellefson (ex-Megadeth) on Altitudes & Attitude for some double electric bass attack. Frank just published his long-awaited memoir, Fathers, Brothers, and Sons – Surviving Anguish, Abandonment, and Anthrax, and it is a gripping read. It’s a book that goes deep and well-beyond his stories about life as a recording and touring musician. Frank had a very tough upbringing, and this book tells the tale. Enjoy the conversation…

What is Groove – The No Treble Podcast?

This is an ambitious effort. This will be a fascinating conversation. Our goal at Groove is to build the largest oral history of bass players. Why Groove? Most of the content about the bass revolves around gear, playing techniques, and more technical chatter. For us, bassists are creative artists with stories to tell. They are a force to be reckon with. These are the stories and conversation that we will capture. To create this oral history of why these artists chose the bass, what their creative lives are like, and where inspiration can be found.

Listen in:  Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #83 – Frank Bello.

Groove – Episode #83: Frank Bello by No Treble

Are you interested in what’s next? How to decode the future? I publish between 2-3 times per week and then the Six Pixels of Separation Podcast comes out every Sunday. Feel free to subscribe (and tell your friends). 

Meta Thoughts On Meta, Facebook And The Metaverse

Your digital media catch-up is right here.

Every Tuesday – for just a few minutes – I join Heather Backman (my old buddy from her days on CHOM FM) on the air at Jack 103 (Rogers Sports & Media) to give a quick blast about the current state of technology, media and Internet culture. We’re calling the segment Tech Tuesday (and we do it in just a few minutes).

What is Tech Tuesday?

If you ever find yourself wondering… What, exactly, is the point of TikTok? How can I make myself look better on a Zoom? Reddit? What’s that about? How do I help my kids be safer online? Who’s the latest creator and streamer that I should be checking out?

You are not alone.

This is what Heather Backman and I discussed this morning over on Jack 103 FM for a couple of minutes:

How Facebook is already owning the Metaverse – Quartz.

Let’s discuss Meta… the new name for Facebook… or is it? This is more like Google creating the name, Alphabet, as the holding company for Google, YouTube, FitBit, Waze, etc… Meta will be the public/corporate name, but Facebook as we know it isn’t going anywhere. So… what is this metaverse that Mark Zuckerberg is talking about? Why do so many people hate the name Meta? Is Facebook the company that we want building what will be our future internet? What does this mean for Oculus? Let’s break it all down…

Will you be a part of metaverse?

App of the week: ArriveCAN. If you plan on traveling any time soon back into Canada, make sure you have your ArriveCAN app (and do the work before your plane lands… trust me…).

Once the segment goes live on Jack 103, I will post it here for you to listen in, learn, share and engage….

Mitch Joel · Meta Thoughts On Meta, Facebook And The Metaverse – Jack 103 FM – November 2nd, 2021

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Cade Metz On The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World – This Week’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast

Episode #799 of Six Pixels of Separation is now live and ready for you to listen to.

Best known for his reporting on artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and other emerging areas, Cade Metz is a reporter with The New York Times. Previously, he was a senior staff writer with Wired magazine, the U.S. editor of The Register, PC Magazine, and other outlets. His first book is called Genius Makers – The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World. Genius Makers looks are deep questions like: What does it mean to be smart? To be human? What do we really want from life and the intelligence we have, or might create? From the back cover: “The book presents the fierce conflict among national interests, shareholder value, the pursuit of scientific knowledge, and the very human concerns about privacy, security, bias, and prejudice. Like a great Victorian novel, this world of eccentric, brilliant, often unimaginably yet suddenly wealthy characters draws you into the most profound moral questions we can ask. And like a great mystery, it presents the story and facts that lead to a core, vital question: How far will we let it go?” Enjoy the conversation…

You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via Apple Podcast or whatever platform you may choose): Six Pixels of Separation #799.

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