Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. | | | | Know where your music came from. Rapper Big Daddy Kane in New York City. (1988)
(Catherine McGann/Getty Images) | | | | | | “Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”
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| | rantnrave:// Yesterday, my friend MARK SUSTER of UPFRONT VENTURES (an investor in REDEF) held a discussion/lunch with lobbyist HEATHER PODESTA of INVARIANT. I know as much about politics as I do about BARRY'S BOOT CAMP. But I'm super curious. Fascinating conversation about how politicians and regulators work. How to get their attention. How to frame an issue. Crisis management vs. early strategy. Of note was how many different kinds of startups from fitness devices to drones to ride sharing to car rental have all sorts of regulatory issues that young and cash-strapped entrepreneurs may not realize at their inception. And how important it is to think about those hurdles early. And of course, before you invest. The best part? It wasn't partisan. Shocker, I went over my question quota. This usually happens when I'm with Suster. I need a few more lunches... I often get asked what my favorite REDEF ORIGINAL is. So far it has to be "Age of Abundance: How the Content Explosion will Invert the Media Industry." Over the past century, technological advancements have massively reduced the cost and time needed to create and circulate content. Though this has liberated artists, consumers are now drowning in a virtually infinite supply of things to watch, listen to and read. The answer to a world where attention is the key constraint, not capital or distribution, isn’t Big Media – it’s the Influencer Curator. We live to share here at REDEF... From ordering food from their seats to scouting out short bathroom lines via an app, fans have seen tech revolutionize sports stadiums. They crave more than just beer and a good game. Now, fans get an experience that's worthy of leaving home for. SportsSET: "Stadium of the Future"... OK, kids. Weekend viewing assignment on NETFLIX. NOBODY SPEAK: TRIALS OF THE FREE PRESS from FIRST LOOK MEDIA. "HULK HOGAN's court case against GAWKER MEDIA sheds light on wealthy, powerful figures who challenge freedom of the press in order to silence critics." I was outspoken on the verdict and completely wrong about it. I let my issues with some of Gawker's tactics, writers, and editorial over the years cloud my judgment. That's not how it's supposed to work. After spending a few hours with NICK DENTON in December, seeing the film at SUNDANCE and a lunch with FIRST AMENDMENT legal expert FLOYD ABRAMS, I've come to understand how taste can get in the way of a sensible look at free speech. This film is an eye opener on why a free press is so important to us as a nation. If we muzzle critics, those we disagree with or find personally objectionable, where is the line? Great interviews with smarties like WAPO's MARGARET SULLIVAN and more. Very, very timely... Oh, media. KATZENBERG talks "New TV," TOBY EMMERICH discusses the DC UNIVERSE, NOAH HAWLEY says wait and video publishers have FACEBOOK frustration... Happy Birthday to MILES FISHER, CHRISTINE ELIA, and TOM ELLSWORTH. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| The clocks read zero when the lights went out. It was a Saturday night last December, and Oleksii Yasinsky was sitting on the couch with his wife and teenage son in the living room of their Kiev apartment. The 40-year-old Ukrainian cybersecurity researcher and his family were an hour into Oliver Stone's film Snowden when their building abruptly lost power. | | |
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| A new paper by Meighan Stone, Entrepreneurship Fellow (spring 2017) and former president of the Malala Fund, argues that the predominantly negative coverage of Muslims and refugees on U.S. TV news contributes to negative public opinion of Muslims, and in turn, policies such as President Trump’s “Muslim ban.” | | |
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| The FX series’ frustrating but rewarding third season zeroes in on a world gone horribly wrong. | | |
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| How two world wars and the industrial revolution created the modern teenager. | | |
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| The video-game industry is built on the cultish fantasy that all technology and effort can be redeemed as pure pleasure. | | |
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| The former engineer took a big swing at the car-hailing giant, and did us all an even bigger favor. | | |
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| In the last decade, electric guitar sales have plummeted. But why? | | |
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| Human jobs in the future will be the ones that require emotional labour: currently undervalued and underpaid but invaluable | | |
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| As Spotify continues to scale (50 million users) yet not make a profit (its net loss doubled to $568M), the streaming service is faced with many paths towards profitability (including renegotiating royalty rates) and having its long-awaited IPO. | | |
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| Blockstack is using blockchain technology to reconfigure the web. It’ll make NSA mass data collection impossible. | | |
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| One writer rewatched the essential Good Bad Movie until his eyes bled. But it’s OK -- pain don’t hurt. | | |
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| It’s been nearly 12 months since my first startup went up in flames. I’m going to tell you how it all happened, in hopes that my mistakes -- and the insights I learned from them -- can help you in your own startup adventures. | | |
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| Which media companies are adapting to the digital age and which ones are falling behind? Brian Stelter talks with BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield about Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Time Warner, Disney, Snapchat, Spotify, Amazon and more. How do these players overlap, compete and intersect? What's happening to the cable business model? Are all these changes a good or bad thing for consumers? | | |
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| In May, a so-called ransomware attack hit computers in over 150 countries. But two weeks earlier, one security expert found something a lot worse. | | |
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| We spoke to experts in marketing, retail and consumer behavior on why drop culture is working. | | |
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| Major Lazer is constantly optimizing its sound and promotional strategy by incorporating data from Spotify and Apple Music. A year ago, Major Lazer was planning to release an album in early 2017. But now, the group intends to let material trickle out throughout the year -- and, in fact, might never create an album again. | | |
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| Read an excerpt from 'Threads,' a heartbreaking graphic memoir that takes an intimate look at the refugee crisis. | | |
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| A network of dummy online stores offering household goods has been used as a front for internet gambling payments, a Reuters examination has found. | | |
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| Despite years of economic uncertainties and the lack of a proper legal framework to help promising startups obtain capital, Argentine entrepreneurs are building a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem. The country is home to many of Latin America's biggest startup success stories, and with the introduction of one new law, the pathway to success is about to get a whole lot easier. | | |
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| Over 30 Facebook pages being run from Macedonia have been removed by Facebook in the past two months. | | |
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| The answer involves both biology and economics, but the opioid crisis is forcing us to consider investing more in pain research. | | |
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| The Court’s unanimous decision assumed that, though words may hurt, the harm to our polity is far greater when the government gets to suppress expression. | | |
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| "The Wall Street Journal" has fired Jay Solomon for becoming involved with an arms dealer, but reporters have often been unable to resist getting their hands dirty with the topics they cover. | | |
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