Archives for the 'Eventness' Category
Susan Bratton turns the tables; interviews ME for DishyMix
I’ve been a fan of Susan Bratton’s interactive advertising industry talk show for a while now, and so I was thrilled when she asked me to be a guest on the show… even though it’s a little odd to be the one interviewed rather than the interviewer. You can check out the podcast here. Watch [...]
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 [...]
Can’t. Stop. Checking. Facebook…
Well, OK, actually I CAN stop checking–at least, I can anytime I want to, I know I can… why do you doubt me?–but I think my circle of online Facebook friends finally hit some kind of critical mass because earlier today I found myself adding and checking and sending messages obsessively. I’ve been on LinkedIn [...]
Yes, box office is up this summer, but don’t get comfy
Variety Editor-in-Chief Peter Bart’s Monday column on the surprising health of the summer movie box office entirely misses the point. True, box office is up this summer, but the real story here is with the consolidation of tickets sold among a mere handful of movies. Both culturally and on an entertainment-industry wide basis, we’re seeing [...]
Precious little TV these days is “Must See” because…
(Note: this post builds on my recent “How too much cognitive information leads to eventness” discussion, although the earlier post is not required reading for this one .) I’m a second generation Los Angeleno and being to the mannered born I was interested but not hugely surprised to learn in Brian Lowry’s Friday Daily Variety [...]
