March 2009
21 posts
February 2009
20 posts
WatchCharlie Rose interviews Marc Andreessen.
What a seriously smart guy. Though I must say I disagree that the NYTimes should immediately shut down its print edition. I think it’s possible for a company to innovate while simultaneously harvesting the money to do so from a non-growing cash business.
Want Content? "Pick One"
A meeting with the super smart Avner Ronen of Boxee yesterday, combined with reading coverage of the Pirate Bay trial and the 30 Rock “McFlurrygate” has got me thinking on overdrive about the future of video content. In a conversation last night with my buddy Aaron, we came up with a simple rule called “Pick One.” While certainly not groundbreaking, it’s an easy way...
WatchER Promo: A new CH vid (and an instant all-time favorite). Digg.
Ken Auletta on the Newspaper Death Watch →
Always love reading coverage of media armageddon.
Here’s my take: A good way to predict how a technology in transition will end up is to imagine what would result if everything collapsed tomorrow and was rebuilt from the ground up. In that scenario, here’s what I think would happen.
Knowledge is power. Money buys power.
Rich people will pay for high quality and timely information...
A Programming Note
New episode of The CollegeHumor Show on tonight - 9:30/8:30c, MTV.
Tonight’s episode: “Interns,” wherein our goofy gang figures out they can get attractive girls to talk to them and not run away if they hire them as interns.
We beat The City last week, help us do it again!
The first episode of “The CollegeHumor Show” is available for free on iTunes. So that’s nice of them.
We got our ratings back today and they were terrific, so thanks to everybody who watched. My goal of beating Bromance was accomplished.
Tech Savvy? Free Car for 6 Months
Most of my friends live in New York and thus don’t drive cars. But for those of you who do, my friend Aaron is recruiting people for a big marketing project (not a scam, promise). Description:
Basically, we’re looking for young, digital and content savvy people, who would like to have a free car for 6 months, and complete one mission per month (the missions will be cool).
Email...
How's Your News? | MTV →
This show is amazing. Set your DVRs and catch a repeat.
Life Advice: Money Edition
I passed along this New York Times article about psychology and peoples’ finances to my dad this morning. His response:
People sometimes ask me “why are you so upbeat when you have lost 40% of your stock portfolio?” I reply that in just a few more fleeting years I’ll lose 100% of my stock portfolio. It’s called death and there is no bailout. Meanwhile, I have all I...
WatchObserve and Report: Red Band Trailer
How lucky is Aziz to have the best line in this whole trailer?
Dumenco's Media People: Ricky Van Veen of... →
“You expect it to be sophomoric and stupid — and it is — but it’s also strangely delightful.”
First review of the show is positive. A good feeling until the negative ones come out!
“TL: We do have one thing going at The State. We decided that as we start to die...”
– The State’s David Wain, Thomas Lennon and Kerri Kenney-Silver | A.V. Club
Coming Soon...
Web 3.0: “How the fuck do we pay for this?”
Anybody catch the MacGruber advertorials during tonight’s SNL for Pepsi? They were in between other commercials during the breaks. The first time the show has done anything like that, I believe. They were actually pretty funny.
Speaking of which, when will product integration exist on TV without the promoting show feeling the guilt-driven need to employ the “hey look how funny it is...