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Whenever I tell people I’m an auctioneer, there are inevitably two follow up questions: First: “Do you talk really fast like those guys on TV?” followed by a cartoonish imitation, complete with an imaginary microphone and a pseudo Southern accent. Second: “What’s the most expensive thing you’ve ever sold?” After two decades of auctioneering, theContinueContinue reading “The power of silence: 3 lessons on capturing an audience from a world-renowned auctioneer”

Cloudflare has often been described as some version of “the most important internet company you’ve never heard of.” But for the better part of 2025, cofounder and CEO Matthew Prince has been trying to change that. The company’s core business is to improve the performance and enhance the security of websites and online applications, protectingContinueContinue reading “How Cloudflare, ‘the most important internet company you’ve never heard of,’ took center stage”

Is Reddit like other social media platforms? That’s the question before the High Court of Australia in light of the country’s under-16s social media ban.  Last week, Reddit filed a lawsuit in Australia’s highest court seeking to overturn the country’s recently enacted social media ban for children. The San Francisco-based firm claims the law isContinueContinue reading “Reddit says it isn’t like other platforms in case against Australia’s social media ban”

For the past two years, I’ve written predictions for how AI will continue to change the media industry and the business of news in the coming year. Prognosticating is a risky business even at the most tranquil of times, and media’s AI era is anything but: bots are multiplying, newsrooms are shrinking, and new businessContinueContinue reading “5 predictions for AI’s growing role in the media in 2026”

“Season’s greetings” aren’t as cheery when it’s a season of layoffs. November marked the eighth time this year that job cuts were up over the same period the year before, according to research from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. To make matters worse, hiring in November was down 35% from 2024, marking the lowestContinueContinue reading “Fearing a layoff? Channel your inner doomsday prepper”