Archives for September 2007
Amazon Unbox + NBCU Fall Season + Free Previews = Fantastic!
This morning, shopping online for an external hard drive, I visited Amazon where my eye was caught by a fantastic promotion: Through Amazon Unbox, NBC is giving away several pilots for its new fall season for free, including the much ballyhooed “Bionic Woman” as well as “Journeyman,” “Chuck” and more. I immediately downloaded the three [...]
Now Tracking: “Quarterlife”
On Wednesday, Daily Variety reported the following: Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz are undertaking an ambitious new-media project that will see them revive onetime ABC pilot “Quarterlife” and distribute it via MySpace, as well as create their own social-networking site. Duo will produce and variously write and direct episodes of the show, which centers on [...]
Internet classics… are there any? Well, check out this video…
For a while, now, I’ve been pondering whether or not we’ve seen any timeless internet content yet– and here I mean the early success that will still be on the digital “air” in a few decades, like “I Love Lucy” which is STILL in reruns every single day. What would that content be? Seinfeld and [...]
Did I blow it? Is it ever OK to analogize autism?
I’m hoping for reader feedback on this one. Today’s iMedia Connection cover story is an interview that I conducted with Sean Finnegan, newly-minted CEO of OmniCom’s OMG worldwide digital unit and a brilliant guy. During that conversation, Sean said this: The art of a brand relationship is much like the one you and I could [...]
More on “iCarly”…
Back in mid-July, a short L.A. Times item about Nickelodeon’s new iCarly series caught my eye. Today, USA Today has a substantial article about the show. One new tidbit of information is that the website will have longer versions of the user-submitted video than what air on TeenNICK, which brings to my mind some questions [...]
