The only way to address executive compensation and the inevitable boom and bust cycles that will happen in perpetuity in this country is to finally recognize the difference between financial engineering and investing.  For some reason no one in any of our regulatory agencies seems to want to admit or deal with the differences.  Too…

Ok, so here is the deal. I really, really like going to IHOP for breakfast. I go there all the time because they have this  omelette that only has 370 calories and I think it tastest great ! (especially with Salsa).  I liked it so much i tweeted about it a little while back. So…

I was in NY for most of the week.  Everytime I walked past a newstand or street vendor it disturbed me to no end that they wore their own clothing. In particularly , their own T-Shirts. Why ? Because it made absolutely no sense to me that some entrepreneur had not done a deal that…

TV Everywhere is a concept put out by TV distributors that basically says that if you pay for cable or satellite, you should be able to watch the content you want, where you want. Everywhere. To some people this is not a good idea.  As is always the case,  many people think tv programming should…

Just read a great article at the Neiman Journalism Lab site about Google’s plans to help the content industry.  In a nutshell the concept is to utilize Google’s Checkout, their payment system, to enable publishers of news and other premium content to both sell their content as part of subscriptions and/or via micropayments.  What caught…

That is what the US Department of Labor is saying to everyone and anyone who wants to get their foot in the door.  You are SOL. There is no such thing as an unpaid intern anymore.  Our government at its finest. This summer, in response to the changing sports media landscape, I wanted to create…

Youtube, CBS, NBC, ABC are going to have an awful lot in common in the not too distant future Which company uses its traffic to drive eyeballs to programming on which it sells advertising ?  They all do. The biggest difference between Youtube and the broadcast networks is that one actually produces content or pays…

This is not a job inquiry letter that I received. I found out about this from The Bad Pitch Blog. As  you might have guessed, the Bad Pitch Blog killed the author, a columnist responding to a job ad. I loved the response. Absolutely loved it. I liked it a little bit because the author…

I have a google alert that searches for mentions of the term “prosecutorial misconduct” . It’s a never ending flow of events, which is unfortunate in and of itself.  Its a reminder that power corrupts on a daily basis. This morning’s email brought my attention to an article written by Cornell Law Professor Michael Dorf….

The internet has been dead and boring for a while now.  It has reached a point of stability where flashes  of technological creativity are rare, but  every now and then some new technology can put a spark back in the ole gal (no sexism intended). If you haven’t heard of WebHooks or PubSubHubBub its about…