I was excited about having Jason Hirschorn on as last week’s ‘Panic’ guest and am even more excited to bring him back on for round two. I have not met another person who is not just so passionate about all forms of media and the creator economy, but is eager and willing to share that knowledge with others. In this episode, Jason and I talk about the future of media, the fall of cable, the creator economy, NFTs, newsletters, social media streaming, decentralization and more.

I was excited about having Jason Hirschhorn on the 'Panic' podcast and he did not disappoint. This interview turned into a two-part series so lean back for this first part which covers Jason's long history at MTV, Slingbox, News Corp and MySpace. Jason has some great stories that were fun for me to listen to because I have met a lot of the same people in my short media stint at CBS.

I love the business concept of bundling and bundling. I remember reading this interview of Jim Barksdale and Marc Andreessen on the subject in 2014. It is happening right now in the stock market as Robinhood traders and investors, with the help of Stocktwits and other social networks unbundle the S&P 500 and the indexing …

I love Business Insider. They make me yell at the internet the way I yelled at my TV in the day. They have declared the ' death of television ' more than times than Donald Trump has been on TV. That is a A LOT.

There is a lot of skepticism towards 'Fantasy Sports' - specifically Draft Kings and Fan Duel, the two largest companies in the space that are spending a LOT of money on advertising. Draft Kings advertises on Stocktwits so let me get that out of the way.

I have one market theory: the tape is good or bad. Technology has been factored into almost all industries because the world is socially and mobile connected. The one that lags behind is Wall Street.

Who isn't a 'data scientist' in 2014? Here is Wikipedia's definition ...color me confused. I deem anyone a 'data scientist' in 2014 , as a confusionist. The timeline what really matters most. Search and UI are what matter after that. Finally, its how you read this infinite tape that separates the big winners from the losers in the investing business.

One of our partners, GNIP, has an awesome whitepaper on ' Social Media and Markets: The Coming of Age '. It is well worth a download and read. I have been relying on social data very heavily since 2005. It is the year I started blogging, and here is the proof.

It only took Michael 221 interviews to get comfortable asking me on his great podcast. Michael is a leading writer and researcher on the business and style of trend following. He asked some great questions and let me ramble so I feel it is one of the best interviews I have participated in.

I have not met Ben Horowitz or Marc Andreesen of A16z, but they are not kidding around. It is just one of the many new reasons that Wall Street is moving West. Make sure you watch this interview with Ben Horowitz (finish the post first): I would not bet against these guys and their deep, patient, connected networks and pockets.

Just a quick note on 3D printing but I am going to build a longer case study on this trend as it evolves in real time. Yesterday, 14 Wall Street ‘Analysts’ had a buy on the stock, 4 a hold and two a sell. Congrats of course to the TWO.