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
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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.
June 16, 2009
i can’t wait until Joseph Leonard opens. it will be our new hang for sure
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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"Note To Self: Don't Tweet Vacation Plans"
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Got such a kick out of reading this as lately I’ve been pitching an iPhone app that will take Facebook, Twitter, Meetup, and Amazon Wishlist APIs and alert you when you’re near a house whose residents are on vacation and also has good stuff to take.
Remember when criminals would “case” a house? That’s soooo pre social web.
via Piers
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
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
Lisa Kudrow at the #Webbys on Twitpic
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Ah the Webby Awards, the award show where everyone pretends web content is better than TV content while simultaneously making up awards to give to TV personalities so the ceremony will have some sense of importance.
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