The amount of connectivity the Internet gives us is mind boggling. Mind. Boggling. I came across this on Hubspot this afternoon, which proves the point:

90,000,000,000,000 (that’s trillion with a “T”)…the number of emails sent via the Internet in 2009.
500,000,000…active Facebook users.
126,000,000…blogs on the web.
2,000,000,000…videos viewed on Youtube today.

So, suffice it to say that there is [...]

Social Media is, maybe, the best thing to happen to the web. Few would argue that the connectivity and innovation are a great blessing. It is. But as time passes I hear more and more people say under their breath that social media is, perhaps, also one of the worst things that could’ve happened to [...]

Yesterday, I had the chance to participate in a roundtable with Miriam Parker, Tosca Lee, and Jake Chism to discuss the impact of social media on the publishing industry. Miriam is part of the digital media team at Hachette Book Group, one of Ted’s publishers. Tosca Lee, of course, is an acclaimed novelist that many [...]

I live in “Music City,” aka Nashville. For many of my friends who work in music it’s also known as Ground Zero. Over the past few years they’ve had a front row seat to the greatest distribution shift of our time. It was a little thing called the mp3. Thanks to the advent of digital [...]