If you're a luddite who isn't interested in twittering about your commute or heading out for pizza, you're missing the point, Failing to Twitter is like refusing to believe that TV had a future. Twitter is a new communications medium, and if you're ignoring it, you're missing your best opportunity...

Like you, I am about to burst. My internal clock reads optimist, but I am surrounded by neurotic naysayers, dreading a McCain upset. I find myself ministering to them, as only an agnostic can, with empathy for the human condition; making no promises about the Hereafter.

Distracted from all...

Spring Awakening, the Tony-award-winning Best Musical for 2007, launched the first leg of a national tour in San Francisco earlier this September. Far headier than the jukebox musicals lately filling the Rialto, this re-imagining of the 1891 Frank Wedekind play mashes-up its German fin de siècle setting with a lyrical...

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This past week could have been a Christopher Buckley novel. Gov. Palin's Pastor Kroon -- as he readies for his "Love...

Partisan - as defined by Merriam Webster's -- is a familiar term to anyone with a fifth-grade education: "a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person; esp: one exhibiting blind, prejudiced, and unreasoning allegiance."

While Wednesday night's RNC hewed to this usage, it also veered into the...

After Hillary's winning performance Tuesday night, and a sigh of relief from Obama rank-and-file, all attention shifted to Wednesday night's appearance by Pres. Clinton. What would Big Bill say?

Given that he's been famously terse about Obama since the primaries came to an end, his remarks were a wildcard....

In 2005 Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla created Scrabulous; by 2007 it went nuclear as a Facebook app. The social networking aspect of Facebook brought it a half-million daily players, giving users the ability to joust with friends and family across the world. While it is undeniable that Scrabulous has the...

On the best of days, "One World, One Dream" -- the theme of the XXIX Summer Games -- was an ambitious slogan devised for China's coming out party onto the world stage. But not even Olympic Peace, that Greek tradition for armistice that dates back to the games of 8th...

Last Friday the Federal Communications Commission bared its teeth. In a 3-2 decision led by Chairman Kevin Martin, and joined by his Democrats colleagues across the aisle, Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps, the agency ruled against Comcast, finding that the nation's largest cable...

To cut through the hype and hero worship surrounding the release on July 11 of the Apple iPhone 2.0 3G, JackMyers Media Business Report decided to take the pulse across the industry, speaking with players across the gaming and virtual world landscape as well as those creating...

Last week Manhattan district judge Louis L. Stanton filed his opinion in the $1B copyright infringement lawsuit Viacom (VIA) first lodged against Google (GOOG) back in March 2007.

Judge Stanton's decision has already been met with a torrent of criticism across the blogosphere, but what is the broader context of Viacom's...

Lessons from Personal Democracy Forum, The "Davos of Technology":

While the RIAA and MPAA have been frequent whipping boys in any debate on the failure of Big Media to embrace change in a timely fashion, they are positively visionary standing next to government. But that's changing. Just as media has...

If last week were a novel, it'd be a page-turning summer blockbuster. It all began on Monday with the return of eminence grise Jim Hansen, twenty years to the day since he first testified before Congress on Global Warming. And it ended with Bill Gates riding off into...

Despite time-shifting and viewer erosion, television remains a $70B market, our most powerful advertising medium. That said, the steady trickle of ad dollars flowing from TV (and newspapers) to the Internet continues apace due to that platform's precision analytics and accountability.

In response to this challenge, this column has...

The Filter is the next step in Social Media. When The Filter went beta this past April, it received gushing press, based not only on Peter Gabriel's über-celebrity, but his successful track record in multimedia (CD-ROMs Xplora and Eve; On Demand Distribution).One week after its public launch, JackMyers Media Business...

It's easy to view last week's much-awaited and endlessly ballyhooed release of the second generation iPhone as simply a PR triumph. But that would be a mistake. By incorporating 3G technology and GPS, and lowering the purchase price by 50%, Apple has radically altered the landscape of the mobile marketplace....

"Technology is the greatest change agent that humanity has ever seen." There can be little argument that for the last generation technology has accelerated the rate of change beyond recognition. Despite this, cognitively we remain hardwired to envision The Present as a range that includes not beyond the past three...

IT'S NOT TV, IT'S VIDEO
Think of it as the Big Bang of Video. We continue to expand from the first broadcast network in the 1920's to a galaxy of offerings, including online platforms like Veoh, Joost, Fancast, Hulu, and Blinx. In deference to Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, both...

Extracting concepts rather than keywords will change the face of online advertising, vastly improving monetization, believes former Yahoo! executive Greg Coleman, who recently joined start-up company NetSeer as CEO and president.

This month comScore reported a first: Google had become the most popular Web site in the U.S....

This year's Upfronts were a modest affair. Perhaps they reflected the zeitgeist, skewing lean and mean as the US economy continued to be soft. After fending off Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, Jerry Yang learned that there was no rest for the weary as corporate raider Carl Icahn