How Do We Measure Success? Or Failure?

Sometimes success is easy to measure. Who won the Super Bowl? Clear winner. Who won the Boston Marathon? Again, the fastest runner is declared the winner.
Winning and losing seems to be easy to measure, at least on the surface. Competitive sports tend to have clear “winners” and “losers”. [...]

The New Business Plan- 8 Questions to Ask Yourself before Risking It All

    A girlfriend of mine has asked me to review a business plan, and this has made me think of the tough questions you should ask yourself before starting or buying a business.
1. What is your passion?  You are much more likely to succeed at a business venture if it is based around something you [...]

Intellectual Property

I’ve been thinking a lot about intellectual property- if you create something new and exciting, and have a vested interest in seeing this idea succeed and propagate, what should you do?  In this world of new media, of share and share alike, where do you draw the boundaries around what’s “yours” and what belongs to [...]

Broadcast Ethics

Sparked by the Imus flap this week, NPR remarked this morning that shock jocks and shows with degrading, insulting humor exist because there is a market for it. I found this comment intriguing, from a podcaster’s perspective.
Up until recently, people have only had the choice of what Broadcasters think we want. And given [...]

Why is Being Authentic So Hard?

I woke up this morning and heard the news that Don Imus has been thrown off the air permamently with MSNBC because of some stupid comments he made about the Rutgar’s ladies basketball team on his show. Then, I heard a presidential candidate, Barak Obama, weigh in, saying he deplored the comments and he [...]

Measuring Success

Chris Brogan wrote a post today about how many of us in new media seem to be multi-tasking all the time, and wondering whetehr we are accomplishing everything we set our minds to, or merely juggling too many things to make adequate progress on any ONE thing.
Chris then went on to ask a more important [...]

PodCamp NYC !!!

I am back from PodCamp NYC, the first Podcamp that I’ve helped to organize that has actually happened. (I am also one of the organizers for PodCamp Philly- September 6, 7th & 8th at Drexel University!)
The final count for the number of people who registered for PodCamp NYC was 1312.  We can confirm that at [...]

Frustrations

Do you ever feel like somehow, despite all your efforts, you miscommunicate with someone you care about?  You can’t seem to get it right?  And there’s a growing sense of dis-ease, that somehow you don’t know how to fix?
I’m there right now.  With several people I love and care about.
On the home front, my husband [...]