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...

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...

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...

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...