Have we buried Clubhouse yet? How about Twitter Spaces or Spotify Greenroom or Facebook's Whatever or Mark Cuban's thing -- has that even started yet? Is social audio already dead? Was it a flash in the pan? Does social audio have a future? Or has it gone the way of the telephone party line, which it resembles?

I don't know the answers. I do know that the questions aren't quite on target.

Successful media platform launches aren't successful because of the technical aspects. It's about the content. Give people what they want and they'll embrace the platform unless it gets in the way.

We see it over and over. Radio was a hobbyist thing until it offered music, news, comedy, drama, all delivered to your home. Television was a novelty, something futuristic, and then it offered boxing and baseball and Milton Berle, and people who only saw TV at bars and in store windows decided, yeah, we should save up and buy one of those for our living room and make the neighbors jealous. FM was around for decades until separate and better programming appealing to more than just easy listening and Classical fans and unavailable on AM turned the band from an afterthought to dominant. The personal computer took off because you could do spreadsheets and word processing on them, and then because you could access the web and play games on them. HDTVs looked great, sure, but they only took off when there was sufficient HD content to justify the purchase. TikTok's ascendancy came because of a succession of "you gotta see this" viral videos, not because it was really all that different from Snapchat.

It's another one of those weeks when I wrote most of a column, decided that it was not good, trashed it, and now have no real idea what to write. It's the equivalent of the Sixers getting to the middle of the third quarter just fine, then falling off a cliff, and for ...

The experiment did not last long. The idea was to do what a lot of people proclaim they're doing but don't: lay off social media for a week or two. It's been a stressful time, and Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, while valuable in some ways, do not always, as Marie Kondo ...

As with a lot of things in life, radio people live with an undercurrent of fear. We fear losing our jobs. We fear making that one mistake on the air or on social media that can end a career. We fear getting hotlined. We fear being blamed for trainwreck segues ("it was the ...

As I write these words, it's Friday morning, and I'm thinking about how nobody will be reading this. That's not precisely true -- you, for one, happen to be an exception -- but it's the precipice of a holiday weekend in the U.S. and most people, even radio and podcasting ...

What will you be doing for a living ten years from now? Twenty? What's your goal? Everybody asks themselves that once in a while, but for radio talent, it's an especially fraught question. Depending on who's talking, you'll hear that radio won't exist twenty years from ...

If you do one job for a couple of decades, you're going to find certain things repeating themselves. Write a column that long and you end up revisiting some themes, and by "revisiting" I mean "repeating yourself ad nauseam," which leads me to my time-honored "blank slate" ...

If you do one job for a couple of decades, you're going to find certain things repeating themselves. Write a column that long and you end up revisiting some themes, and by "revisiting" I mean "repeating yourself ad nauseam," which leads me to my time-honored "blank slate" ...

"What do I need YOU for?" I heard The New York Times tech columnist and podcast host Kara Swisher ask that about Clubhouse on The Daily Beast's "The New Abnormal" podcast. She could have asked that to anyone about anything, but it's a question I've myself asked in many ...

What if we've been looking at this all wrong? What if we've been thinking inside the box all along, even when we thought we were being cutting edge and radical? That was my reaction when Dan Le Batard and John Skipper announced that the destination for Le Batard's show ...