Perception
If you write, speak or perform for a living, you need an audience. Without one, you don’t get paid. (Hell, online, you still don’t get paid even with one. But I digress…) Your audience is one way to validate your success as a communicator. But your audience is also a trap. If they love you, [...]
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Last year, Barrett Garese wrote a thought-provoking essay about the future of film, TV and the web. When I realized my response to his post was longer than a single comment ever should be, I blogged my response on my old blog. One week later, I relocated from Blogger to WordPress and most of my [...]
Continue reading about 5 Thoughts on the Future of Media – 2010 Update
What if our newspapers were filled with articles on how to write for newspapers? What if the only books we printed were books about how to sell books? What if TV shows consisted solely of monologues about TV? I doubt we’d have much use for them at all. So why do we accept it in [...]
Writing a blog in the hopes that you’ll get noticed — or hired — is extremely passive-aggressive. Most people who’ve made money have made it by pursuing it. Therefore, they respect what they recognize, which is a desire to achieve. So, by pursuing work and striving to get their attention, your actions resonate with them. [...]
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One of the web’s primary flaws is that it’s actually too easy to use. And as content becomes ever easier to create, finding quality content becomes even more difficult. That’s the general premise of Andrew Keen‘s Cult of the Amateur, which lobbies for the return of cultural gatekeepers. It’s when those gatekeepers are reinstated, Keen [...]
