There’s no successful businessman in America who actually thinks the most successful businessman in the country is Donald Trump. I know those guys, and so do you, and I guarantee you, that’s not their view. | | | | | This morning's cover of the New York Times | | | | | | “There’s no successful businessman in America who actually thinks the most successful businessman in the country is Donald Trump. I know those guys, and so do you, and I guarantee you, that’s not their view.”
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| | rantnrave:// I talked a lot at dinner. I'm out of nouns, adjectives, and verbs. Feel bad for those that endured that. I so exhausted myself by this, VIDCON and watching BREXIT returns that I'm a little late today... The chasm between power and the people. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and eventually that results in revolution. 72% voting turnout. Huge. I was wrong. Does something like BREXIT stave off fascism or does it accelerate it? People have legitimate grievances often hijacked by extremists. I'm depressed about the state of the world. From SYRIA to GERMANY to BREXIT. 1,000 years of national rivalries too hard to get over? Who's next? Here come the nutters. Another brick in the wall. And the effects on media and tech... In lighter news, I spent a wonderful day in another universe called VIDCON. A world I know very little about: YOUTUBE talent. Hung with GREG CLAYMAN learning. His daughter ALLIE (she wants to meet LD SHADOWLADY if you have a connect) and my niece LILY were in heaven. They got to meet and spend time with LILLY SIGNH, GRACE HELBIG, SMOSH, LINDSEY STIRLING and others. Tens of thousands of kids there to share their love of the new establishment of talent and to learn how to publish, grow, build revenue and entertain. Super positive environment and outlook from talent. Screaming like THE BEATLES at SHEA STADIUM. When you look at the decline in minutes on television with younger audiences, VIDCON will give you a clue. I walked the floor for hours and I didn' t see one senior television executive. Not one. I did see YouTube's ROBERT KYNCL grinning from ear to ear. YouTube should be proud. The talent-fan relationship marks the end of the middleman. Money isn't there yet, but it's happening! Thanks to PAULA KAPLAN, JUDY MCGRATH, SEAN ATKINS, DAN WEINSTEIN, SARAH WEICHEL, JORDAN TURKEWITZ, KEITH RICHMAN and BARRY BLUMBERG for making Greg and I look cool... Why is no one examining PHILIPPE DAUMAN for staying? I'd love to read his psychiatrist's report... Congrats to my friend and my goddaughter's Mommy, ANNA MASON on joining STEVE CASE at REVOLUTION as director of RISE OF THE REST INVESTMENTS... Happy Birthday to ALEX MAGHEN, JOHN NOGAWSKI, ANDREW MARCUS | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| The lies about winning picks are merely the short con in advance of the long game: hush-hush arrangements with sportsbooks in which pick-sellers earn a significant cut of the losses of their referred clients. Today’s touts get you on both ends. They sell you “winners,” and then collect when you lose. It’s a sucker’s game, same as it ever was. | | |
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| Lawrence Beitler was sitting on the front porch of his home in Marion, Indiana, when someone asked him to tote his 8×10 view camera to the town square. It was past midnight on August 8, 1930, and Beitler, 44, was a professional photographer who mostly shot portraits of weddings, schoolchildren, and church groups. | | |
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| Whether he wins the US presidency or not, his rise reveals a growing attraction to political demagogues - and points to a wider crisis of democracy | | |
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| About 100 people in the U.S. drown after being sucked out to sea in rips each year, and new research has experts arguing over how best to escape them. Australia has figured it out, why haven’t we? | | |
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| In the last couple of years, magic started happening in AI. Techniques started working, or started working much better, and new techniques have appeared, especially around machine learning ('ML'), and when those were applied to some long-standing and important use cases we started getting dramatically better results. | | |
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| When the Michelin Guide comes out each year, foodies freak out. Michelin's food critics, known as "inspectors" by the company, only awarded a top ranking of three Michelin Stars to around 100 restaurants in 2016. Restaurants that receive a Michelin Star for the first time can expect a flood of food tourists; losing a Michelin Star devastates restaurateurs. | | |
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| Self-driving cars could encourage policies that end public access to America’s roads. | | |
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| How redistricting turned America from blue to red. | | |
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| "Social media is the worst thing that's ever happened to the beauty industry," says celebrity makeup artist Pati Dubroff. It's a strange thing to hear from someone who just received over a thousand Likes on a picture of her client Emilia Clarke's makeup. But speaking on the phone from California, Dubroff doesn't falter. | | |
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| Amazon Prime is the greatest and most misunderstood loyalty program ever created. | | |
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| Yes, you bet we're going to wade into the Twitter-infested waters of Michael Jordan vs. LeBron James for the official title of best basketball player of all-time. Absolutely. Sharpen your social media knives. Prepare your snark weapons. | | |
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| Kate Lanphear had been editor-in-chief of Maxim magazine for only a few weeks in the waning months of 2014, when the discussion finally, and inevitably, turned to sex. There had already been a long string of meetings addressing features, fashion, humor, grooming, celebrities, food, and anything else you might expect to see in a glossy magazine. | | |
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| If you're a creator who makes content for any kind of distribution (whether it be a feature film, a theatrical play, a TV program, or some kind of online video) the success or failure of that content can be dependent upon the mechanics of the distribution mechanism. | | |
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| In Locking In a Big Ten Deal, ESPN and Fox Claim the Last Big Rights Prize The lawyers are still poring over the deal points, but a new media rights package for the Big Ten Conference has been locked in through the end of the 2022-23 academic year, people familiar with the situation confirmed. | | |
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| You can hear the boy laughing as he zooms in on his mother. She talks to herself, counting and recounting the number of seats at a table overburdened with platters of basmati rice, kibbeh, and kofta. He holds on her until finally she acknowledges the camera, chiding her son with mock annoyance. | | |
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| These are the leaders at streaming services, record labels, music publishers, promoters, booking agencies, rights organizations and more. | | |
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| Last weekend, seven of the ten highest-grossing movies in the country were sequels. Of course they were, you say. It's summer. That's what summer's all about! | | |
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| Indigenous women around the world are torn between embracing modern approaches to childbirth and preserving age-old traditions. This surprisingly simple solution could save millions of moms. | | |
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| Sheryl Sandberg’s visit to Washington this week is another page in Facebook’s defensive playbook, which has been successful in staving off regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. in recent years. Facebook’s business trajectory and political conditions mean the company’s toughest battles are overseas and in statehouses. | | |
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| Columnist Andy Taylor of Merkle|RKG shares data and provides insight into how voice search is impacting retailers. | | |
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| HOW HAS ARTIFICIAL intelligence, associated with hubris and disappointment since its earliest days, suddenly become the hottest field in technology? The term was coined in a research proposal written in 1956 which suggested that significant progress could be made in getting machines to "solve the kinds of problems now reserved for humans...if a carefully selected group of scientists work on it together for a summer". | | |
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