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“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” Lester Bangs (Phillip Seymor Hoffman), Almost Famous It is the 20th anniversary of the cult film Almost Famous, and it has brought with it everything from Zoom interviews to podcasts to a host of retrospectives on the …
So who do you believe? A few weeks ago, an ESPN related independent poll showed that 71 percent of fans were in favor of athletes taking a stand on social justice issues. This week a poll by Gallup conducted over the last year claims that sports in general, largely driven by athlete activism, has plummeted. …
It is still there. And today it is more relevant than ever before…especially since today was World Suicide Prevention Day. There it was on the side of a phone kiosk in midtown Manhattan two years ago, a large picture of Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps. Another ad for Speedo or Subway or Under Armour, as …
“What is essential to life is invisible to the eye.” Fred Rogers I caught this random line from the late Fred Rogers during a rebroadcast of the PBS documentary on his amazing life on Sunday, and it struck me as so important as we turn the page and head down the home stretch of this …
Other than politicians, he may be the most quoted, and even mis-quoted man in America over the last 100 years. His name adorns the championship trophy of the league he helped grow from a sports afterthought to the leader of a multi-billion dollar industry, We pause to remember the 59th anniversary of the passing of Vince …
We often get questions from colleagues, business partners, and friends on proper use of social media, and most importantly how to engage. Both my Columbia podcast partner Tom Richardson and I remain bullish on the proper use of Twitter as a news curation and listening tool almost as much as a way to engage in …
One of the first questions we ask when we start class is “Who is the media?” Usually the first answers are the ones you would expect…reporters, bloggers, podcasters, etc. etc.…and then usually someone comes up with the real answer…any one a device that can transmit information to an audience… In short…you, or anyone else with …
How much of a boost do fans in the stands give the home team? Or to the athletes on the field in general? Are the risks of having these fans back during a stubborn health crisis too great to even worry about these questions? When the Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium announced that up …
In the next few weeks kids of all ages will cautiously, nervously, virtually head back to some form of school. That includes my class at Columbia University, which as of now, I will be doing as a hybrid class, with some students online but a majority of the students in the classroom. I was shocked …
There was a time not too long ago when many thought that audio as a medium was almost dead. We live in a video world, we need to see things, no one has time to sit by a radio… Then along came podcasting, and iTunes and digital audio and Sirius/XM and I Heart Radio and …