When I lived in L.A., I was fortunate enough to take part in a number of really fantastic film projects. Either as an actor, producer, or director, I dove headlong into making these projects a success, and to some extent, they all ...READ»
Warm-up the Apple rumor engine again, because the mythical iTablet just got a boost from a very significant source indeed: The executive editor of The New York Times, Bill Keller.
Keller was speaking at Nieman Journalism Lab, ...READ»
Technorati's regular "State of the Blogosphere" analysis of the business is just out, and among the stats is the incredible fact that bloggers are being paid more than ever. Is it time to rethink the definition of blogging? ...READ»
Most people have a vision of publishing that ceased to exist years ago: writers of yore traipsing bookstore to bookstore across America to offer readings and scrawl inscriptions to the handful of strangers who bothered to show up. It sounds so quaint. Alas, today's publishers have little patience for such low-yield marketing efforts. [Viral Loop Chronicles Part 1]READ»
After our morning call with Katie, Annie reached out to talk privately with me to check in and see if there was some unresolved tension from last week. I admitted that last night I had gotten nervous about our call today because ...READ»
Last night I shared with my story guide Annie Hart that I needed us to have a structured call today. Since our call last week I was beginning to feel a bit desperate and depressed, like we had fallen off track. Thankfully, ...READ»
Last week, Wal-Mart cut the price of some popular new books to just $10, a slice of over 60%. Not willing to be out-done, Amazon matched them. Wal-Mart went down to $9. Amazon went to $8.99. Target jumped in at ...READ»
It’s easy to get comfortable once you come up with an exceptional product. It’s easy to take that product—and the process that created it—and keep duplicating it, making small changes every so often to keep it “new” and ...READ»
With bargain-basement subscription prices and free Web articles, magazines have spent the last decade acting like startups who care for nothing but eyes. But unlike Twitter, publishing companies need revenue--and not just from ads. ...READ»
Rupert Murdoch is so concerned about the future of traditional (i.e. his) news publishing at the hands of Google, he's launched paid Web newspapers via an online club. But if Google's so evil, why doesn't he block its ...READ»
