This is the third interview in Chapter 4 in my new book, Designing Media Jessie Scanlon, November 2009 I had often heard about Jessie Scanlon’s work and enjoyed her writings before meeting her in person, so I was thrilled when she suggested that we record an interview for a BusinessWeek podcast to talk about my...
This is the fourth interview in Chapter 5 in my new book, Designing Media Colin Callender, February 2009 As a founding member of HBO’s pioneer programming group and the President of HBO Films, Colin played a central role in turning HBO into a powerhouse. He believes that the role of a film or television...
This is the second interview in Chapter 4 in my new book, Designing Media Bruce Nussbaum, September 2008 Bruce and I were speaking at the same design conference in the fall of 2008 at the Arizona Biltmore hotel, which is dubbed “The Jewel of the Desert” and resplendent with Frank Lloyd Wright-influenced architecture and beautiful...
This is the first interview in Chapter 4 in my new book, Designing Media Joel Hyatt, November 2008 Following a distinguished legal and political career with a recurring theme of opening closed systems to enhance participation, Joel Hyatt served as national finance chair for the Democratic Party in the presidential election campaign of 2000, getting...
Bill working in his new office located in the Education Department trailer. While the office trailers have been a fixture in Cooper-Hewitt’s garden for the last two years, they recently gained a high-profile resident. Cooper-Hewitt’s Director, Bill Moggridge, has migrated from his grand office in the Museum’s mansion into the Education department trailer for the...
This is the fifth interview in Chapter 3 in my new book, Designing Media Ev Williams, December 2008 Ev Williams is a serial entrepreneur. He’s famous now as the cofounder of Twitter, but he started a whole series of new ventures before that. His first was a family business to develop CD-ROMs in Nebraska during...
This is the fourth interview in Chapter 3 in my new book, Designing Media Bob Mason & Jeremy Merle, November 2008 Bob Mason cofounded Brightcove in 2004 with Jeremy Allaire. They saw the possibility of a complete end-to-end solution to deliver video from any creator to any customer, across diverse devices, allowing content owners to...
This is the third interview in Chapter 3 in my new book, Designing Media Alexandra Juhasz, October 2008 Alexandra Juhasz is a professor of media studies at Pitzer College in California, where she teaches video production, film and video theory. She has given a lot of thought to the social impact of YouTube. She teaches...
The Devastating Effect of the Tsunami in Sendai, Japan, on March 11th, 2011 The horrifying images on television of the earthquake and tsunami that afflicted the Japanese coastline last Friday remind us of the fragility of the civilization that we have developed on our planet, and show the enormous power of nature. Professor Shinichi Takemura...
