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Editor’s note: This is the first guest post from Paul “GreenSmith” Smith, a sustainability consultant and prolific green business blogger. Paul is a longtime friend of Max Gladwell and writes frequently for Triple Pundit and Ecopreneurist, two of our favorite blogs. But the easiest way to reach the legendary GreenSmith is to follow him on [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Media'
Ode Magazine: A Much Needed Source of Inspiration and Connection
March 27th, 2009 by greensmith · 3 Comments
Tags: Green Living · Media
The New Media Landscape: The Fifth Estate
December 27th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 1 Comment
Society needs professional, objective sources of political reporting that don’t rely on advertising. It also needs the Fifth Estate.
Our post on the Fourth Estate and the fate of newspapers made the case that a vibrant, independent Press is vital to our democracy and that we should possibly re-think the current model. We didn’t point out [...]
Tags: Blogs · Media · Social Media
The New Media Landscape: Newspapers, Journalism, and The Fourth Estate
December 18th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 6 Comments
The Fourth Estate is fundamental to our government and democracy. Newspapers may not need a bailout, but they do need a serious re-thinking.
This is the second in our series on The New Media Landscape, where we’ll explore the fate of newspapers. Starting things off on a lighter note, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart put [...]
The New Media Landscape: Mass Professionalization
December 6th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 5 Comments
The world of news and media is being turned on its head thanks to the democratization of technology. It’s shaping a future that will look very different from the past and present.
One of Dale Carnegie’s core principles in How to Win Friends and Influence People is to take a genuine interest in the people you [...]
Tags: Media · Social Media
CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World
October 7th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 4 Comments
CauseWired is a book about what we do. It is the nexus of social media and social good. It is a new term for the Max Gladwell nomenclature.
One way to express the measure of a book for us can be the ratio of total pages to those we’ve flagged with the venerable dog ear. These [...]
Tags: Media · Social Action · Social Media
BlogWorld 2008: The Line Between Blogging and Journalism
September 20th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 9 Comments
We seek to settle the issue of what constitutes blogging versus journalism once and for all. Futile? Probably.
Through our live blogging and schmoozing at the BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, this topic has come up a few times on panels and in conversations. We’ve already written about the blogger-journalist divide, which focused on writing style, [...]
Code Green: Hot, Flat and Crowded
September 11th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 3 Comments
After reading the first chapter of Thomas Friedman’s new book, we’re eager to read the rest.
Thomas Friedman’s new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America, was recently released. He’s been promoting it through so many speaking engagements for months, and he’s still on the circuit. Having [...]
Tags: Alternative Energy · Global Warming · Media
The Truthiness About Fake News: Stewart and Colbert Tell It Like It Is
September 4th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 4 Comments
The Daily Show and The Colbert Report deliver superb, award-winning commentary and satire. But don’t call it news.
It’s no secret that we’re big supporters of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert. In fact, WebEcoist recently featured Max Gladwell among its 25 Best Green Blogs, noting that “you’re as [...]
Water, Water Everywhere. And Nine More Water Scarcity Clichés
August 24th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 3 Comments
As mainstream media prepares to adopt water scarcity as its latest cause, we prepare you for the flood of cliché-driven headlines.
We could be wrong, but our sixth sense for media trends tells us that the issue of global water scarcity is about to get the attention it deserves through so many magazine covers, nightly news [...]
How to Blog Like a Journalist. Or, Bridging the Blogger-Journalist Divide.
August 10th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 7 Comments
There is ongoing tension between old-school reporters and new-school bloggers. What a perfect setup for this post on the principles of good storytelling.
Newspapers as we know them will soon cease to exist. The L.A. Times is the nation’s fourth-largest newspaper. Its website posted record traffic in July with 127 million page views, thanks to better [...]
