In the early 90s I formed my first company, Video News International - VNI.
The idea was to give small video cameras to freelance journalists around the world and get rid of the need for crews and fly-in reporters for international news coverage.
In a little more than a year, I had 102 journalists, mostly NPR radio stringers, equipped with Hi8 video cameras and reporting.
In a short period of time I had more global coverage than CNN, and for a far lower cost
VIDBLOG reports that by the end of this year the mobile video ad market will surpass the online non-mobile (what should we call it?) market.
This is only surprising in how quickly this shift to mobile has come about.
The thing about mobile is that pretty much everyone has one with them all the time - in your pocket.
6 billion worldwide at last count (though who actually does the counting?)
In any event, the power o
Joseph Schumpeter was an an early 20th Century Hungarian- American economist.
He popularized the term 'creative destruction' - that is, "the role of new companies in making innovations that interrupt the circular flow. New firms “do not arise out of the old ones but start producing beside them”. In transportation for example, “it is not the owner of stage coac
It's finally here...
almost...
The book that can change your life (or mine at least).
iPhone Milionaire: Six Weeks To Change Your Life
Learn how you can use the video functions on your iPhone to take control of your life (and take control of the world).
At bookstores in September but available for Presale at Amazon.com now.
Hurry! While copies last!
I was up at 5:30 this morning to be online for a two-hour live panel discussion on The Guardian's website.
The topic was "The Journalist of Tomorrow", and the question was 'what kind of tools and what kind of skills' will the journalist of tomorrow need?
The 'skills' question is debatable, but the 'tools' question, increasingly, is not.
Last quarter, Apple sold an astonishi