PodCamp
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 [...]
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These days, everyone is desperate to be recognized as an expert. But you don’t actually need to be an expert to get paid, and paid well. You just need to be “above average.” Keep It Simple, (for the) Stupid In order to make a living, you only need one thing: the ability to solve someone [...]
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Yesterday, I said you need to be interesting if you want to get paid to be yourself. But producing content that others willingly pay for is only one way to make a living online. What people fail to realize is that everything you do online is part of a living resume. As Doug Derda, the [...]
Having now fully recovered from PodCamp Pittsburgh 4 (including two additional days of travel), I can finally sum up the entire experience in one word: necessary. If you’re like me, you spend more time online every day than you’d like to admit (or than your significant other thinks is sane). You create media, you consume [...]
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Three years ago, Pittsburgh became the second city (after Boston) to host a PodCamp. Now, with PodCamp Pittsburgh 4 happening this weekend, I’m proud to announce that the event I helped to create has just sold out for the first time.* But by “sell out,” I mean in terms of capacity, not ethics. As you [...]
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