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June 24, 2009

John Lennon was once asked in an interview “Is Ringo the best drummer in the world?”

Lennon replied “Ringo isn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles”

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June 23, 2009

Jeff Just Stumbled Across These Old CH Newsletter Bits

“The ability to reason is all that separates man from the animals.”
(slogan of the world’s most dangerous zoo.)

- Ethan Trex

Constellation Reviews
Orion The Hunter - 8 stars
The Big Dipper - 7 stars
Perseus - 12 stars

- Amir B.

Pop Quiz
Q: Can you name the last six American presidents and their vice-presidents?
A: You can not.

- Jeff Rubin

June 19, 2009

Technophiles who think that the Internet is going to topple Hollywood studios, TV networks, and cable companies have their heads up their asses. That’s what the analysts at Bernstein Research say — in more polite language, of course

Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily » New Report Says Hollywood Is Holding Back Its Best Content From The Web

C’mon, Hollywood! Don’t be lamewads! Put your content on the web for free! It may undermine your entire business model and quickly drive you to unprofitablity, but you’ll get MAD REBLOGS and TONS of TWITTER FOLLOWERS.

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June 16, 2009

fred-wilson:

i can’t wait until Joseph Leonard opens. it will be our new hang for sure
Design: Joseph Leonard Restaurant: Vogue’s Daily Coverage of Fashion, Beauty, Parties and More on Style.com

I’m an excited investor in Joseph Leonard. Most looking forward to the weekday breakfast. I’ve always wanted to be a “meet me at my usual breakfast spot” kinda guy…

fred-wilson:

i can’t wait until Joseph Leonard opens. it will be our new hang for sure

Design: Joseph Leonard Restaurant: Vogue’s Daily Coverage of Fashion, Beauty, Parties and More on Style.com

I’m an excited investor in Joseph Leonard. Most looking forward to the weekday breakfast. I’ve always wanted to be a “meet me at my usual breakfast spot” kinda guy…

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June 15, 2009

Domain Names

Naming a new company. Anybody have any great domain names they’d want to sell? Preferably one word?

June 12, 2009

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June 11, 2009

One of the recurring themes among the winners was to use their speeches to attack “old media”. “There’s nothing good on TV,” proclaimed one chap, apparently unaware of the popularity of Hulu – or of the billions of Family Guy, Simpsons and Daily Show and, uh, Saturday Night Live clips that make up the only watchable parts of YouTube. The claim that the awards prove that we don’t care about lame old television is also hard to square with the winners of almost all of the most high profile awards. Lisa Kudrow took best comedy performance, Isabella Rossellini won best individual performance, Sarah Silverman got best actress and Trent Reznor picked up best artist. I mean, seriously? The funniest performance on the web in the past 12 months honestly and truly came from Lisa Kudrow? No from one from the truly brilliant collegehumor.com cast? Not from Felicia Day for the Guild? But from a television actress performing in a web show that 85% of people in the room hadn’t heard of? The nearest we came to seeing a genuine web celebrity picking up one of the major categories were Biz and Sir Tim, but even they had to be introduced by superstars of the small screen lest the crowd get bored.
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Those who complain about blatant product placement on television these days had better stay away from the Internet, it seems. The only way to save professionally produced Web video might be to go back to the old days of TV, when the show was the marketing.
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June 9, 2009

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Hi! I'm. I live in the West Village, New York City, USA.

Professionally-- I am the co-founder of CollegeHumor.com, now I oversee that and a production company called Notional.

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