Each year the always sold-out, three-day confab American Magazine Conference, brings together not just the industry’s thought leaders and innovators, but the brightest and most interesting minds of our times including Barack Obama, Sheryl Sandberg, Bill Clinton, Eric Schmidt, Arianna Huffington, Nancy Pelosi and Jeffrey Katzenberg. continue reading...

At WatchMojo, our core has been content creation, but we’ve always curated and increasingly aggregated content, too.  When people have asked me why, I tell them the main reason and value for curation and aggregation lies in it helping the discovery and recovery of your own content.  In other words, curated and aggregated content for the sake of housing more content isn’t sound in the long term.

In fact, with Google admittedly being the lone (and glaring) exception, all ad-supported media companies that focus solely on content curation and aggregation end up suffering, only when you own content do you really have a defensible strategy and equity creation. continue reading...

I was traveling to and from NYC when the Iranian elections took place (I’m born there, though been out since I was 5).

Anyway, it’s hard not to pay attention to what is going on, regardless of what you think. continue reading...

Digital media is the new software, once created, it’s all profit, apparently, I’m not alone in that thinking:

The CNN cable television news network said on Thursday it would stop using the Reuters news service, ending a 27-year relationship, to cut costs and invest in its own news gathering operations. continue reading...