How to fix the SxSW voting problem

South by Southwest (SxSW) is a fairly large conference that offers attendees the opportunity to learn more about movies, music, and interactive (online) content at its weeklong festival. It’s become something of a giant party and simultaneously for a lot of...

What if no one tells you that you're wrong?

On the most recent Media Hacks, we were discussing the Crocs extortion case, and this thought popped into my head: The most dangerous part of social media is that it’s inherently self-selecting towards agreement, which means that fewer and fewer people will tell...

Arguing against your limitations

One of the most interesting conversations at PodCamp Boston 4 was on the lawn, a discussion about race, gender, and social media. Lots of different viewpoints, from a belief in a glass ceiling in social media to an equally strong belief in the democratization of media...

Nothing in life is free

There is no such thing as free unless the thing in question is without value. When you write a blog post you give away to the world on your blog, it is not free. You spent time, energy, effort, and knowledge writing it, time that could have been spent doing something...