Anthony DeRosa

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  • A Teachable Moment

    Is a crisis in education less important than a crisis of our capital markets? At the end of 2008, the federal government took aggressive measures to ensure that a supposed complete financial meltdown would be averted by purchasing troubled assets and restoring liquidity to the largest banks in America. Only a few months following the…

  • The Rise and Fall of Gawker Media

    Full disclosure: I was a contributor at Gawker in 2009. How has Gawker’s major redesign altered their traffic? It all depends who you ask and what measurement service you decide to use. They all seem to paint a slightly different picture and everyone you speak to will give you a different explanation for why it…

  • Can “Checking In” Become Mainstream?

    It’s easy to get a skewed sense of reality in the media centric world that is New York City. It’s even easier when you work and live around folks enamored with shiny new gadgets and the apps that run on them. The app that most of my friends are using is Foursquare, but I would venture to…

  • The Economics of Internships

    The haves and the have nots are delineated in multiple ways through our polite society here in America. That separation is apparent to a significant degree when it comes to the opportunities available to the folks we are counting on to pull us out of the ditch we’ve found ourselves in after the nuclear winter of sub-prime mortgages and…

  • The Death of Platforms

    When I wrote this back in 2011, I didn’t realize it would eventually become the same reasoning behind today’s movement pushing for web3 decentralization. David Carr wrote about my post in the New York Times soon after, on Feb 13, 2011. Facebook isn’t going away, and neither is Twitter, nor Tumblr. No offense to Tumblr…