by Whitney | Sep 1, 2007 | Uncategorized
There have been a few blog posts over the past few days talking about podcasting as a failed experiment because there hasn’t been exponential growth. I would argue Podcasting may be hitting its first dip (a la Seth Godin’s great book of the same name) and...
by Whitney | Aug 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
I’ve been thinking about this for a while- Why is it so easy to make grand plans about what I should do, yet so hard to execute some times? I think it comes down to immediacy vs. deferred gratification – what’s happening now versus looking into the...
by Whitney | Aug 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
Listening to NPR today, covering the Attorney General resignation, one of the 9 fired Asst US Attorneys mentioned how the Attorney General would remind everyone at conferences that they worked for the President. This fired Assistant US Attorney said that was wrong; ...
by Whitney | Aug 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
I am the lead organizer of PodCamp Philly, a New Media UnConference being held at Drexel University September 7, 8, & 9, 2007. I got the UnConference bug after attending PodCamp Boston in September of last year, and my world was largely transformed by the people I...
by Whitney | Aug 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
I’ve been reading Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen. This is basically a rant book, saying that the democratizing of media production is eviscerating our culture. I disagree, and would say podcasting, videoblogging and blogging are actually arising because of...
by Whitney | Aug 8, 2007 | Uncategorized
I’ve been trying to catch up on some reading, and Thomas Friedman’s added content to The World is Flat 3.0 is one of them. There’s a great section about using social media tools for educational projects that reflects what is my every day reality of...
