10 2025 November
Adobe Is Rolling Out Emotion Mixers Where AI Can Shift the Tone of Voice Overs
At the Adobe MAX Creative event last week, WIRED reported on several enhancements to audio editing that are likely to be coming soon inside of Adobe products....
Read Now03 2025 October
SXSW 2026 Announcement!
SXSW is reinventing itself in 2026! The latest session announcement just came out and I’m excited to share that I’ll be back as a Featured...
Read Now01 2025 October
Why the Podcast Company Making 5000 Episodes of AI-Slop a Week May Be Good News
Yesterday I listened to a podcast called Garden featuring Nigel Thistledown, a self-described “garden enthusiast, botanical provocateur and occasional mediator of bird-plant disputes.” The podcast...
Read Now15 2025 September
Anonymity Is Dead. Are We All Really Content Now?
A CEO caught on a kiss cam having an affair isn’t just the latest social media story gone unexpectedly viral. It’s also an indication of...
Read Now28 2025 August
Of Course, the Cracker Barrel Logo “Backlash” Was Planned … And It Worked Perfectly
Cracker Barrel announced they were ditching their old logo for a forgettable generic new one. The news got people to pay attention. Lots of them...
Read Now28 2025 July
How AI Is Exposing the Idiocy of Influencer Marketing
Recently, an AI generated influencer went viral at Wimbledon. She wasn’t the first, but there was a firestorm of stories about how she is the...
Read Now11 2025 July
Season 5 of the Non-Obvious Show Podcast Is Now Live!
Over the past six months I’ve been recording conversations with people whose books and body of work I find most fascinating. Earlier this week I’m...
Read Now13 2025 June
The Secret of Optimism and the New Peruvian Airport
Earlier this week when I arrived in Lima, it was in their brand new airport that is less than two weeks old. People in the city had...
Read Now04 2025 June
The Emerging Future of Radio
Radio, and its future, are front and center right now in a lot of conversations. There’s the recent news that NPR is suing the Trump...
Read Now30 2025 May
The Campaign to Stop the Spread of Fake Media – PSAi
The best strategy to fight back against the rise of fake media is prioritizing media literacy training for adults and kids. This past week to...
Read Now14 2025 May
What You Can Learn from a Tragically Predictable Kanye West Interview
Kanye West agreed to do a sit-down interview with talk show host Piers Morgan. It didn’t go well. Initially I watched the full 17-minute video,...
Read Now29 2025 April
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: True or False by Cindy L. Otis
This wonderfully useful book written by former CIA analyst Cindy L. Otis is actually meant for young adults to teach them about how to spot...
Read Now28 2025 April
Inside the Marketing Savvy of the World’s Lightest Whiskey Bottle
Claiming that a product is the world’s most ___________ is the most common marketing gateway to empty hyperbole that is sure to inspire plenty of...
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