Category Archives: Other Writing and Editing

Writing and Editing

How Marshall McLuhan’s legacy lives on at the University of Toronto

You don’t have to be the most celebrated media theorist of the 20th century to pepper your conversation with phrases such as “global village” and “the medium is the message.” In the ’60s and ’70s, though, Marshall McLuhan’s prescient aphorisms …

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Media training discussion

This is a record of a recent discussion on LinkedIn concerning media training. Media Training Discussion

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ASJA Profile

In this profile from the American Society of Journalists and Authors for their monthly magazine, I reveal the writing I’ve done that I regret the most. I found it a very fun ASJA Q and A

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Lessons Mainstream Media Can Learn From The Porn Industry

In the early 1990s, when much of the world still viewed the Internet as a passing fad for anarchist geekazoids, pornographers were already raking in millions selling online content.

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Ten indispensable technologies built by the pornography industry

Sorry to disappoint, but watching the pornography industry is not the same as watching pornography. And let’s be clear: It’s the action in the industry that matters to your organization – not that other kind of action. Matter it does. …

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More fun than a barn raising

How long do you think entertainment seekers can go on being fed on those vulgar TV game shows where contestants trade dignity for dollars, marrying strangers, eating rats on a tropical island, or worst of all, answering trivia questions? How …

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