Betting on earned media

How does placing a bet on an outcome influence an election that hasn’t happened? Betting markets are the new age version of a chimp traveling back from…

Nov 2 • 

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October 2025

The good news biz

Picture an app for that makes you happy. But for business.

Oct 25 • 

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WazzApp with Shih Tzus?

You took your Shih Tzu to a pancake BBQ in a treed parkette to sing kumbaya with like-minded people and heal the world,

Oct 20 • 

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Slop

Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame bun. One man's Sloppy Joe is another man's Big Mac.

Oct 8 • 

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September 2025

EA Sports: It was the game.

Today’s big news rocked the private equity and video gaming worlds. SHOULD I WORRY ABOUT WHAT MY GAMING FUTURE HOLDS?

Sep 30 • 

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Buggled

The case study Harvard didn’t write and business schools don’t teach about how MTV killed the idea that revenue needs to cost money.

Sep 29 • 

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Collective Soul

When it comes to algoriths, Prudence never pays. Yes, with a captial P.

Sep 26 • 

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Cappuccino and life’s other frothy vicissitudes

How can AI be worth anything if its value is eliminating the value of everything?

Sep 24 • 

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Toto, I've a feeling we're not on SportsCenter anymore

I pulled back a greenroom curtain and the men behind it shared the secrets of modern media in a series of chyrons.

Sep 21 • 

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I could be wrong, but Expertism is killing us

Not only was he wrong he was sticking to his guns and belligerently insulting me in the process. Expertism is killing us.

Sep 3 • 

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August 2025

You want a piece of me?

Today’s incommunicating platforms are like the movie COMA. Except they’re not harvesting our organs. They’re harvesting our lives.

Aug 31 • 

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Vegas, Baby!

There aren’t enough coked-up snuggle alpacas to deal with ongoing nuisances effecting some interpersonal experiences.

Aug 24 • 

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