Archives for the 'Culture' Category
“TiVo Guilt” conversation continues
A lot of people have picked up on CNN’s TiVo Guilt pieces that featured an interview with me:
http://scatter.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/infinity-not-quite-as-big-as-it-used-to-be/
http://www.oopstime.com/news/health/22008/yes-i-am-afflicted-with-tivo-guilt.html
http://dailydish.honadvblogs.com/2008/12/03/got-tivo-guilt/
http://www.fresnobeehive.com/archives/2008/12/what_tv_shows_g.html
http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/12/03/tivo-guilt-dont-they-have-a-pill-for-that/
http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/atlarge/2008/12/new_i_refuse_to_believe_1.html
http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/12/02/yes-i-am-afflicted-with-tivo-guilt/
http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDU3MjBiMDNkNjM2N2FmM2RiMThiMGRlNDBmNGIzN2I=
http://blogs.kxly.com/blog/2008/12/02/tivo-guilt/
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1266561/tivo_guilt_too_much_of_a_good_tivo.html?cat=15
http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=34622
http://economics.com.au/?p=1897
http://www.tcpalm.com/blogs/thewatercooler/2008/dec/03/tivo_guilt/
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/12/question_of_the_day_how_far_back_do_your_tivo_shows_go-2.html
Some are taking it seriously and some are making fun, but golly that’s a lot of people!
The sentence most often quoted is my comparison of the moment when you fire up your TiVo to a home work [...]
Short Post: Experimenting with Twitter…
For those of you on this highly-caffeinated, short-attention-span form of blogging, which is itself a highly-caffeinated, short-attention-span form of journalism, you can now find me here:
http://www.twitter.com/bradberens
So far, Twitter updates my Facebook status, which is good, but the reverse doesn’t seem to be true.
I’m performing this experiment because we’re doing something with Twitter and round table [...]
I’m on CNN!
CNN’s Brooke Anderson interviewed me for a story about how TiVo can transform relaxing entertainment into a burdensome homework assignment, and it hit the Headline News network and CNN.com today.
You can see it here:
Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a>
The interview itself was great fun and it’s wonderfully surreal both to see myself on TV [...]
Forget mediasnacking: make a meal of online video
[Cross-posted with the iMedia Connection blog.]
Earlier this week Sony’s Crackle.com announced a new season of original-to-online video content, includng a new series called “The Hustler” starring Mark Feuerstein– one of those “oh yeat THAT guy” actors who you have seen in a million things but can never quite place.
Over at TV Week, Daisy Whitney reports [...]
On cesspools and how on the internet nobody knows you’re NOT a crook
[Cross posted with the iMedia blog.]
As a 40-year-old digital immigrant (I first learned to type on a typewriter, not a word processor) my life is so screen-centered that I tend to forget about printed magazines until it’s time to get on a plane. This week, before I zoomed cross country to our iMedia Financial Marketing [...]
