Student Radio!

There are a lot of ways to create and manage student media today. And to be honest students, high school students, are very media savvy today. But what about students not pretending to do radio but actually doing it for real? How often to we hear students on our local commercial or national radio networks [...]

An Artists Mind

I had the opportunity to speak to the music sensation Rash Radio on my ever popular radio show on Dubai Eye. Honest, sincere and real. I loved his answer to the question about writers block. Rash said that he felt like every song was his last and then the next one just seemed to arrive [...]

Why We Need to Give Students a Voice

I am very lucky to be an educator who has access to the mass media as a talk show host. I can be a real pain in the neck as an educator with a voice that can reach many people through the mass media. Recently I asked myself why there isn’t any student radio on [...]

Prepared for New Media?

Are we prepared or are we preparing for the world of new media? No! The old media is not preparing for the new media environment and new media enthusiasts are failing to actually figure our how to connect with an audience in a meaningful and sustained way! But it is not all doom and gloom. [...]

Talking to TED, well people who have been…

I have been really fortunate to have been to 2 TED events, one in 2009 and the other in 2011. TED in Long Beach was great but it was TEDActive in Palm Springs that blew my mind. One of my passions has been to talk to as many TEDsters on the radio, I host a [...]

Career Path Fog

One of the things I have become fascinated by is how people get into their careers. Sometimes, as a professor of communication and media sciences, I am uneasy talking about career options becasue who knows where you might end up with a communication degree. Sure many, maybe even the majority of grads ,will travel along [...]

My Radio Inspiration.

It is really easy to look around at others and want to have a bit of what they have. But as of late I have been looking at myself and I realize that I have the life! I am a successful University professor here in Dubai in the Middle East, my students seem to think [...]

Why not re-imagine radio?

We spend so much time talking tech and right in front of our ears we have the new old media, radio! While electronic media, web2.0 and the cloud, is front and center in almost every conversation are we paying attention to the tried and true media in the background? We get into our cars, wake [...]

Simplicity Part 2

I love my iPhone 4. I make no apology and I have not used a Nokia or any other smartphone to make any comparison. I love my phone because as a phone it works BUT as a multimedia tool it also works. The big seller for me was SIMPLICITY. This technological tool makes complex tasks [...]

Radio the forgotten Media

As we all tuck into our smartphone,PDA’s, notebooks,laptops,desktops,games… we are swimming is a saturated pool of Apps and programs to get the latest in news, entertainment and just plain fun. The sorry truth is many of us have for, no good reason, turned our back on being champions of old-school media. Sure there are reasons [...]

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