July 2010
7 posts
Hi.
Welcome to the Fatcast News Network!
We like to think of it as journalism for the digital age.
What: We’ve decided to take back the airwaves—and allow everyone to create their own news network.
Why: Because the talking heads on the news should not control the news that comes into our living rooms.
When: On June 1, 2010 we’ll launch the latest in video journalism technology,...
An Honest Cover Letter
If I were applying for a job in the finance industry, this is what I’d write:
Let’s be honest for a moment—you interview ten thousand people a year and are incredibly bored by the monotony of it all. You don’t understand finance, but you do understand that it’s safest for you to choose candidates according to the guidelines in your employee handbook: Degree in Finance—check; 3.5 GPA—Check;...
Political Mashup- We want your thoughts!
In the world of politics, many informed observers have opined that Washington, D.C. is be broken. The Financial Times quotes Bill Gross (founder of the US’s largest bond fund) as saying that “corporate interests spent just under $500 million last year on healthcare lobbying (much of which went to politicians) for what is likely to be a $50-100 billion annual return.” Last year’s...
Americana and Technology
If we can agree that ideological positions taken to the extreme serve little purpose beyond theoretical debates, then we can begin to consider the very real crisis that confronts American capitalism. In the 21st Century, will technology advance our interests as a nation and as global citizens or will we fail to harness the true potential of the tools that we have created?
The challenges that we...
It's Your Show
You may have heard about crowd-sourcing in Fortune, Business Week, and the Wall Street Journal. Democracy comes to the Internet when users are able to generate ideas and see them implemented in real time.
Fatcast democratizes the news by allowing users and audience ratings to help the best Fatcasts rise to the top (this means you)! As I see it, there are a thousand competitors to ESPN sitting in...
Why wouldn't the wealthiest men in the world own...
Why wouldn’t the wealthiest men in the world own the media too? In fact, after rising to power, it only makes good business sense to set up a promotional aparatus designed to legitimize your power and create your own self-supporting narrative.
This phenomenon is well-documented, perhaps most expertly by linguist Noam Chomsky, who ”postulates five general classes of...
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Our Mission
My grandfather told me that “Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.” Here, we’d like to democratize the news. Standing on the shoulders of great entrepreneurs that have come before us, we now have the technology, tools, and the ability to usher in a golden age of digital journalism.
This blog will become...
March 2010
1 post
